When I went into the bathroom today I noticed that the potty was empty. Not only was my son weeing in the potty, he was also tipping it into the loo when he was finished. He clearly likes things clean and tidy. What a boy after my own heart!
I went into the bathroom later and I noticed he had again emptied the potty.
‘Are you cleaning the potty when you’ve finished with it William?’ I ask him.
‘Yes.’
‘Clever boy. Are you wiping the potty too? It looks really clean.’
‘Yes, I put the loo paper in the loo when I finished.’
‘You are a clever boy. Thank you.’
He beams. I kiss him.
My children are becoming more independent every day. That’s one less job I have to do, I think, marvelling at the increasing number of chores someone else can now do.
Washing my hands after changing the baby’s nappy I hear Brin, my cophrophagic, sh*t-eating springer spaniel, come into the bathroom and start drinking from her water bowl. Except she doesn’t have a water bowl in the bathroom, I realise and as I turn around I see her DRINKING MY SON’S WEE and licking the bowl of the potty until it is completely dry.
I kick her out of the bathroom. ‘You wretched cur,’ I sigh.
The dog drinks the wee and cleans the potty, for God’s sake!
I think about how mind-numbingly tired and busy I am. That’s still one less job I have to do, I think, marvelling at the increasing number of chores someone else, DOG INCLUDED, can now do.
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Oh my god. It never occurred to me how HANDY a dog could have been during those potty training days!
And I bet she goes and licks the children’s faces later on!
LOL!!! I knew I bought a dog for a reason! Now, we only need to teach her how to load the dishwasher!
LOL! I would have reacted the same way – “That’s disgusting, but if I don’t think about it, at least *I* don’t have to do it!”
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Yuck – it’s hard to believe that drinking other creature’s urine isn’t a behaviour that would’ve removed some dogs from the gene pool…
ummmm. . .where can I get one of those dogs??? Do they make modles that clean both the toilet and the kitchen floor? Because I would totally spring for dog food if I could get one who did both of those tasks
I keep considering getting one just to eat the bits of food my kids trail around the house. I grew up with dogs and it took months for me to get used to picking up crumbs i dropped while cooking- i was so used to one of the dogs snatching it before it hit the floor. My college roomates thought I was crazy.