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  • verb Present participle of housetrain.

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Examples

  • Human-animal relationships help us with our human-human relationships, by allowing us to see what we humans are capable of (generosity, caring, risk-taking) and by the examples set by animals of how much more we could be capable of (unconditional love, boundless energy, housetraining).

    Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

  • Human-animal relationships help us with our human-human relationships, by allowing us to see what we humans are capable of (generosity, caring, risk-taking) and by the examples set by animals of how much more we could be capable of (unconditional love, boundless energy, housetraining).

    Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

  • And sadly, all that housetraining appears to now be reversing itself ...

    El Perro 2008

  • The cage is great for housetraining after an accident pup goes in the box until you think it's about time for a potty break.

    My Dog Ate the _________? 2008

  • I had a lamb in the house a couple summers ago, but I finally had to put her outside since she did not take to housetraining as well as the goat kids have in the past.

    Moderation back on 2009

  • I get to leave tomorrow, so her housetraining will no longer be my problem...

    3 things 2008

  • As well, he appears to have forgotten all about housetraining.

    Did I mention my nickname is Calamity? Calamity Jen 2008

  • As well, he appears to have forgotten all about housetraining.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Calamity Jen 2008

  • During the holidays, consumers buzzing with Christmas spirit buy puppies out of pet shop windows without realizing just how exhausting housetraining can be, or without having thought through how big that Saint Bernard puppy will grow to be one day.

    Suzy Shuster: My Dog Has No Balls 2008

  • I get to leave tomorrow, so her housetraining will no longer be my problem...

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

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