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Second the Bichon Frise! That's the dog I wanted to get, but one of my children talked me into a sled dog. DO NOT get anything remotely like it unless you want to get dragged on the ice at 30 miles an hour and risk breaking your neck every frosty morning. He gets very excited every time there's snow on the ground :-)

Apparently Bichons don't shed much, are hypoallergenic, and intelligent in every way... but. [b]They have the reputation of being hard to potty train. [/b]I've no idea if that's true, since we ultimately didn't get one. All I can say is that the potty training process for our dog was easy with a crate. We got him at 10 weeks, and the first week I did get up in the middle of the night to take him out, but after that it was fine. I can't recall he had more than a couple of accidents indoors. As an adult, he can last a long night without peeing (10pm-8am). Perhaps a smaller dog is different?

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I will be the dissent about small dogs for this reason.  I am a veteran dog owner, and I have never had a dog that had an accident in the house after the initial potty training period until we got a small dog.  I have a dog that is ten years old, and he will still sneak off to do his business in a distant corner of the house if I don't watch him like a hawk.  I've heard this from others, as well.  Dogs won't pee in their "nest" (which is why they don't pee in their crate), and small dogs have a hard time understanding that their "nest" is the entire house, including the distant bathroom on the second floor.  We've tried everything, and just when we think we've cracked the code, he does it again.  [/quote]

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