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[quote=Anonymous]We adopted our dog as an 8 week old puppy a couple of years ago from our local humane society. She was pretty easy—we lucked out that she has always been pretty chill and awesome with our kids and people/other dogs.  She’s an Australian Shepherd mix and about 60 pounds now.

We kept her in a crate in our bedroom at night since DH and I are on the ground level of our house.  It was like having a newborn with having to go outside in the middle of the night and it seemed like it rained a lot the first month we had her. I don’t remember how long we had to do that.  She seemed to get the hang of being housebroken just when I was starting to pull my hair out over the accidents.  We bought one of those Bissel spot bot carpet cleaners and that has been great to have. We’ve always had a bell hanging from the door out to our deck so she can let us know when she wants to go out.

She was pretty good with the chewing and biting—never really got nippy or mouthy with us, but the kids learned pretty quick to put their shoes in the closet and not leave stuff laying around. She did chew on some wooden furniture a couple of times but that was on us for not supervising as well as we should have.

Because she came from the humane society, she was spayed right before we took her home. Most sources say you should let them go through one heat cycle before spaying, and this is my first dog so I have no idea what dealing with that is like. [/quote]

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