Uh Oh...

I just found out that Mattie probably was not spayed, and she has been acting awfully funny lately. I'm afraid she's going into heat, and I so do NOT want to deal with that.

A couple of days ago when it rained all day, my roommate and I found a puddle by the balcony door, which turned out to be dog pee. She has a dog as well, but Indy is a Dachshund Poodle mix and couldn't possibly have left a puddle as big as the one we found. So we cleaned up the puddle, and several hours later I found another puddle. I couldn't tell if Mattie peed inside the house because I didn't take her on our usual 3-4 mile-long walks a day, if she did it because she really didn't want to go outside in the rain to use the bathroom, or if she did it for some reason I'm just not thinking of. Later that night, I came home after leaving Mattie in the apartment alone for only about an hour and I found that she had gone into my bathroom trashcan and dragged the trash out into the living room. I was so upset with her! I made sure to verbally reprimand her for peeing inside the house and getting into the trash, but at the end of the night I felt like maybe I should have spanked her a little or something to get my point across.

But now I feel bad because if she misbehaved as a result of her going into heat, it's not really her fault. I tried doing a little quick search of symptoms of dogs in heat, but the information I found was so varied that it wasn't very helpful. I guess I'll just have to ask the vet when I take her in to get vaccine boosters in a week or two. Guh....