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Back to School Backslide: Check out our guest post!
I recently was asked to write a guest post for The Everyday Dog Mom on a fall topic. I decided to talk about the Back to School Backslide in potty training and flea control.
Back to School Backslide
Autumn brings many changes to our lives. The kids head back to school, the leaves start to drop and the weather gets cooler. We don’t always think about how these changes effect our pets.
Two common problems I often encountered in the fall when working veterinary medicine prompted me to write this post.
First, I always had a few clients who had gotten puppies or new older dogs over the summer. When fall hit they would report that their pooch was suddenly having accidents in the house again. Why does this happen, and what can you do to fix it?
Second, many people have flea outbreaks in the fall and early winter…just when they have stopped using flea control. Obviously the easy solution to this problem is using year round flea control. But is that the only answer? And WHY does this problem always crop up in the fall?
You can find the answers to these questions and the solutions to the problems here!
As a teacher, I get this totally! Back to school can be really tough. Thankfully no accidents in the house for us here!
This is one of the reasons why we STILL don’t have a dog! My daughter is a senior in high school now and SWEARS she’s going to take care of it, but yet she’s signed up for every activity on the planet! Nope. Plus, once she heads off to college, the dog will end up as my responsibility anyway. No way! Thanks for sharing.
As the child who always promised to care for all the pets…I agree with you! Because despite my best intentions, I still failed at meeting my obligations and my mom had to pick up the slack. I did take my cockatiel to college for a year, but living in a dorm room with a social Bird was not working. So Mom got him for a couple of years…poor mom, what a saint she is!