Doggie diapers, part 2

Here's Winston in his new denim diaper
(Usually he smiles for the camera, but in this case he refused)

Winston’s dog diaper was soon soaked, even with frequent changing of the inner pad. He smelled worse than ever and had a bad case of diaper rash. I took off the diaper for laundering and resumed the routine of slipping newspapers under him wherever he lay down. Soon he got the idea and started deliberately laying down on the newspaper sometimes -- hallelujah!

The diaper routine seemed impossible, so I checked the Internet and learned from a handicapped pets website that there is a secret to reducing the volume of urine collected in the diaper. It’s called “expressing a dog’s bladder.” In other words, manually pushing on a dog’s abdomen to make the dog urinate. The human does the work instead of the dog’s bladder muscles. The site described people doing it successfully on dogs up to 85 pounds. I tried with a small amount of success (possibly a coincidence). Then Dillon and I tried together and got nothing. I’m not sure if we can make this work, but it seems like a good idea and Winston loved the hands-on contact.