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No, leah. I would not consider weekly accidents NORMAL. At five months there should be no reason the dog isn’t able to contain himself if he’s being handled and trained properly.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Is this puppy defiance? What can I do to get him to go to the door 100% >of >> the time. Any help on this behavior is appreciated. >10 weeks? >I believe you’re just going to have to give him time to mature. > Amen. You’re lucky you even get him to go to the door at all at 10 weeks. > I just asked my trainer today if it was normal that my 5 month old puppy still > occasionally (about once a week) pees in the house. He said absolutely. > Babies are babies. :} > Learn How to Can Spam > http://www.whew.com/Spammers/reportspam_stepbystep.shtml > http://www.spamfree.org/ > WHITE HAT OF THE MONTH – Nominate At: http://www.whitehat.com/whotm/ > Internet Secrets, 2nd Edition, by John Levine (All About Spam, p. 277)
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I don’t think that this is puppy defiance, I think that maybe the pup can smell that it’s ok to go behind the recliner. I had a similar problem with my cats where one went on the carpet after being at the vet’s which made the other one feel it was ok to go their too. Needless to say this was out of hand real fast. I solved the problem by using a urine odor remover product on the area and then placing a milk crate over the area so that they could not go in that area, after about a month (and 4 odor treatments to the area) I removed the milk crate and have never had the problem again. I also have two dogs and if one has an accident (say I get stuck in traffic) I immediately use the odor remover and place a box over the area to keep the other one from using the same space while odor that she can smell is still their. This has always worked for me and avoids any stress for either myself or my animals. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I have a wonderful lab mix puppy named Murray that is 10 weeks and is almost > house broken…note that I said almost. He will go to the door on most > occasions, but will almost in defiance go behind a recliner and try to > attend to business sometimes too. I have crate trained him to this point > and he does great in the crate at night. When we catch him sniffing behind > the recliner we immediately take him out and he always goes outdoors, but we > know that he knows better; afterall he goes to the door on most occasions. > Is this puppy defiance? What can I do to get him to go to the door 100% of > the time. Any help on this behavior is appreciated. > Larry > Lake Murray SC > Name: murray the wonder dog.dat > murray the wonder dog.dat Type: application/x-unknown-content-type-data-file > Encoding: x-uuencode
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Excellent tips for areas that are carpeted (where the milk crate will stay in place), but how do you ensure that odors are gone from linoleum? Can oyu just assume that the odor-removing product will take out the smell on lino with the first treatment (due to less material to absorb odor)? Thanks, Melissa – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > II solved the problem > by using a urine odor remover product on the area and then placing a milk crate over > the area so that they could not go in that area,
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> Excellent tips for areas that are carpeted (where the milk crate will stay in > place
Yes, Barb did have some excellent advice. Here’s a MOORE acceptable, traditional approach our experts rely on, from the koehler method: The same general techniques of housebreaking apply to grown dogs that are inexperienced in the house. For the grown dog who was reliable in the house and then backslides, the method of correction differs somewhat. In this group of "backsliders" we have the "revenge piddler." This dog protests being alone by messing on the floor and often in the middle of a bed. The first step of correction is to confine the dog closely in a part of the house when you go away, so that he is constantly reminded of his obligation. The fact that he once was reliable in the house is proof that the dog knows right from wrong, and it leaves you no other course than to punish him sufficiently to convince him that the satisfaction of his wrongdoing is not worth the consequences. If the punishment is not severe enough, some of these "backsliders" will think they’re winning and will continue to mess in the house. An indelible impression can sometimes be made by giving the dog a hard spanking of long duration, then leaving him tied by the mess he’s made so you can come back at twenty minute intervals and punish him again for the same thing. In most cases, the dog that deliberately does this disagreeable thing cannot be made reliable by the light spanking that some owners seem to think is adequate punishment. It will be better for your dog, as well as the house, if you really pour it on him." Ask yourself "WHY DOESN’T JERRY HURT DOGS TO TRAIN THEM?" And then just answer "BECAUSE JERRY KNOWS HOWE TO TRAIN DOGS WITHOUT HURTING THEM." "I LOVE KOHELER" lyinglynn, pathological liar, noted dog abuser. "There’s much wisdom in koehler," deana pace. (Her dogs run away from home.) "Read koehler," lyingdogDUMMY. (koehler is all he understands.) "Read koehler, cindymorons k-9 web faq’s page," ludwig smith. "Don’t let him do that, read cindymooreon’s web page," boob maida. "I’m not a koehler trainer," cindymoron, lyinglynn, lyingfrosty dahl. But they spout koehler’s methods. They don’t consider themselves koehler trainers because they shock, twist and pinch ears and toes, and BEAT DOGS WITH STICKS to MOTIVATE them. lyinglynn writes:
"For barking in the crate – leave the leash on and pass it through the crate door. Attach a line to it. When he barks, use the line for a correction." A CORRECTION? You’re going to JERK and CHOKE this new foster dog out of being AFRAID… that’s CORRECTION? lyinlynn says: "I LOVE KOEHLER," and in the next breath denies being a ‘koehler trainer.’ Is that because she ALSO shocks dogs, and koehler never had a shock collar? And THEN SAY OUT LOUD: "IGNORE JERRY, HE’S MEAN TO DOG ABUSERS." You can get all the information you need to PROPERLY handle and train your dog using non force, non confronatational, scientific and psychological methods, in the Wits’ End Dog Training Method manual available for free at http://www.doggydoright.com The Wits’ End Dog Training Method manual is provided compliments of the BIOSOUND Scientific Elves as an alternative to Doggy Do Right (and Kitty Will Too). Your pal, Jerry "The Phony," Howe. j;~}
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> Is this puppy defiance? What can I do to get him to go to the door 100% of > the time. Any help on this behavior is appreciated.
10 weeks? I believe you’re just going to have to give him time to mature. — Toni www.irish-wolfhounds.com
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> Is this puppy defiance? What can I do to get him to go to the door 100% >of > the time. Any help on this behavior is appreciated. >10 weeks? >I believe you’re just going to have to give him time to mature.
Amen. You’re lucky you even get him to go to the door at all at 10 weeks. I just asked my trainer today if it was normal that my 5 month old puppy still occasionally (about once a week) pees in the house. He said absolutely. Babies are babies. :} Learn How to Can Spam http://www.whew.com/Spammers/reportspam_stepbystep.shtml http://www.spamfree.org/ WHITE HAT OF THE MONTH – Nominate At: http://www.whitehat.com/whotm/ Internet Secrets, 2nd Edition, by John Levine (All About Spam, p. 277)
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Housebreaking is NATURAL, INSTINCTIVE, NORMAL behavior. It is UNNATURAL for you to obsess over housebreaking to the extent of breaking the dog out of his natural housebreaking instinct.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Is this puppy defiance? What can I do to get him to go to the door 100% > of > the time. Any help on this behavior is appreciated. > 10 weeks? > I believe you’re just going to have to give him time to mature. > — > Toni > www.irish-wolfhounds.com
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