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It’s Spring time, the time of the year when it’s raining quite a bit and many of our dogs just don’t like going out in the rain to go potty.   If your dog is like mine, he doesn’t mind his bath at all so I don’t understand why he won’t go outside to do his business when it’s raining.

When it’s raining, I have a large golf umbrella that I use and as long as I can keep the umbrella over him, he’s ok with it, but if he wanders out from underneath the umbrella and gets rained on, he wants to go back inside, even if he hasn’t finished taking care of what he is supposed to.  So, this leads me to talk about some things we can do to remedy this, because I know that many of you have the same situation with your dog.  A quick remedy for this is a dog raincoat and this is a good solution unless your dog doesn’t like wearing clothes.

I’m going to veer off the subject just a little bit and tell you that my Schnauzer is ok with wearing his winter dog coat but he wouldn’t hike his leg or squat for a BM because the coat hung down around his hind legs and I guess he felt his movement was being hindered.  One winter day, I arrived home from work, and would usually let him out right away.  But on this day, I dressed him up with his dog coat and dog boots, which took a little time, then we went for a walk.  He had to go potty so bad that the binding of the clothing didn’t prevent him from taking care of what he needed to do.  He realized that the clothing didn’t have any hindrance on his movement so from that time on he was fine with the dog coat.  Dogs need to be gently introduced to new things and sometimes you may need to get creative or find the right situation to solve a problem, just as above.

If your dog won’t wear dog clothing he probably won’t wear a raincoat but there is a wonderful alternative to the problem, if your dog is small.  And that is the dog umbrella, pictured here.  The umbrella has a clear, see-through vinyl so you can see if they have completed the business at hand.  I think this is a wonderful invention.  You have your umbrella and your dog has their umbrella, so you both stay nice and dry.  Besides, the umbrellas are quite fashionable.

Now, with the umbrella, there’s no reason they can’t go outside when it’s raining.  Although, if our dogs could talk, I’m sure they would still have several reasons for not wanting to go out in the rain?!  What do you think?