[Dailydrool] Sex and housebreaking

[Riche Churchill]

Last night, while re-typing the story of my heart-dog (ATB now for 40 
years) for the upcoming Olde September 1973 Bugler, mentioned that 
although he'd not been a house-dog for the first two years of his life, 
he became one after coming out of the hospital to recover from a 
devastating illness. What caught my eye was that he did not need to be 
house-trained. It seemed not to occur to him to soil inside.

So, got to thinking about all the other dogs I've had, and there have 
been many, many, many since my childhood 70 years ago. Every single male 
had to be told "no" about going in the house only once and sometimes not 
at all. The females always were a different story. Sometimes it took 
months, sometimes they never could be trusted totally. I wonder if it is 
sex related, in that it seems (to me) that generally males are more 
loving and concerned about their human's wishes. Females seem a bit more 
conniving, and also generally smarter. Or am I just sexist?

Riche