Ok so my husband gets up at 5:30 every morning and leaves for work around 6:30 (how it takes a MAN an hour to get dressed is beyond me) and when he first gets up he lets the dog out. Good, morning time she has to... do her business. The thing is he hardly remembers to let her back in and if you leave her out there long enough she starts to dig (which I'm currently trying to break her of that habit) In order to teach her to stop you have to watch her when she's outside only for a couple of days (I told him that) and yet... he just left her outside unsupervised to go to work. So 8:30 this morning I wake up to some scratching on the door, go to get her (did I mention there was a thunderstorm like night ((nice and mudd))) and she is covered in mud! her feet, her FACE, everything! And I know I'm just a little bit hormonal (scratch that a lot). I just gave her a full bath yesterday!! *sigh* It just drives me Crazy when I ask him so nicely and explain what I'm trying to do. I can't just leave her outside all day because A. he wouldn't wash her when he got home anyway B. I have to mow today and C. For the sanity of the entire house no one wants to hear her cry at the door. So again, as many times before, my wonderful morning has been turned into clean up crew.