Word: housebrokenness
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Despite their reputation as dirt lovers, pigs have generally good sanitary habits. Potbellies can be housebroken faster than most dogs, which is one reason they make tolerable house pets. Leilani Appleyard, a psychotherapist in suburban Rochester, notes that visitors sometimes comment on the absence of house stench after meeting her two-year-old pig Gretel...
...When you're finished you can just go right back to your work." Robert Muller of Jackson, Miss., bought his wife Julie a video dog for Christmas and enjoyed showing it off to relatives. "We got to say, 'Look, we just got our video dog, and it's already housebroken...
...Buckley Jr. The First Lady fell in love with the Buckleys' dog last fall, and when the Reagans came to New York City last week to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Buckley's National Review, the President had arranged to pick up Rex as a surprise Christmas present. The housebroken pooch, says a White House spokesman, "has been promised total access to the Oval Office," something for which many aides would gladly lead a dog's life...
Aware that he could not survive in office without the army's allegiance, Duarte asserted his control over the military with the care reserved for a freshly housebroken tiger. He toured barracks and plotted strategy, but always in consultation with the beribboned officers who once ran El Salvador...
...show's occasional violence is all the more harrowing because so much of the action consists of nothing more than long dialogues in frumpy British parlors. Indeed, the series captures wonderfully an India so housebroken that it has come to resemble a dowdy British institution. Instead of the fairy-tale land of kohl-eyed houris and snake charmers, the subcontinent here seems to be a domesticated place of hospital corridors, puddly lanes and gently twittering birds...