Rescued Dogs?

[honeychile]

For those of you who haven't heard my latest drama, here it is in a nutshell: 31 January, my mama had a heart attack, followed by another 8 days later, a four-way bypass, and a lung draining. I moved in with her during this time, to take care of her, and the focus of this thread, Buffy the Wonder Dog. I'm still with them.

Buffy was the stud of a puppymill when my mama rescued him at 3 1/2. It's been another 1 1/2 now. We can tell that he's been abused (he cringes when you pick up a newspaper, etc), and the day my mama got him, he didn't even wave goodbye - but he positively panics without her. We've tried the whole Alpha training with him with some success, but he will be hoarse if she leaves him alone for long. I've seen this dog literally cry.

His latest problem is that he isn't letting us know when he's going to have a bm. In the past two days, he's left us "presents" where we can see them without stepping in it, but this has got to stop! My mama doesn't see as well as I, and when I go home, I don't want to think of her tracking bm all over her house!

We don't punish him when we find it, so much as say, "No!" as we flush it - mostly because he cringes & acts so embarrassed when we find it.

HELP!!!!