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- Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:48 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Embarrassing question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2941
Re: Embarrassing question
Thanks to both of you! I obviously know she doesn't understand human situations like "we have company," but I only object to the behavior if other people are over to observe it. I will definitely try the re-direct! At the moment, she's very happily working a puzzle toy while Rose looks on,...
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:51 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Embarrassing question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2941
Embarrassing question
So, um, this evening, Lily started humping a couch pillow. Is she, um, having a wank? Or is she displaying some sort of dominance behavior? And is there something I can do to discourage her from doing it when people are over?
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:48 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Articles
- Topic: How to toilet train your puppy or adult dog.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 208273
Re: How to toilet train your puppy or adult dog.
Good point, Erica! So then one more question: this "take a few days" bit, does that mean I should take time off work and keep a hawk-eye on Lily, or just that when I'm home, like say over the weekend, that I should keep a sort of casual eye on her? I'll happily take the days off if I need ...
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:05 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Articles
- Topic: How to toilet train your puppy or adult dog.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 208273
Re: How to toilet train your puppy or adult dog.
Thanks for this, Mattie. My 5-year-old terrier mix rescue (she looks like a Brussels Griffon but we're not sure) has been weeing in the house, though the shelter told us she was house-trained. She actually exhibits traits I associate with proper house training, like going right away when we take her...
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:05 am
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Service dog training, what to do about STUPID people?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8180
Re: Service dog training, what to do about STUPID people?
I work with several people who have service dogs, and they tell me that they have gotten quite good at firmly, politely telling people to stop patting the dogs because the dogs are working now. It's easier for these folks because they're obviously actually in need of the dogs-- folks in wheelchairs,...
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:57 am
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: New dog: adjustment questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2433
Re: New dog: adjustment questions
Thanks Runlikethewind. I actually think Lily's house trained-- the shelter had her listed that way, and she exhibits normal potty-trained behaviors like going as soon as she's let out, but the two of them were pretty wound up that first night. I think Rose probably started it by marking her territor...
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:46 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: New dog: adjustment questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2433
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:47 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Next Puppy Question: Interacting with other dogs.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1572
Re: Next Puppy Question: Interacting with other dogs.
In my training class, one of the things she had us do was teach polite doggy greetings-- we turned our own dogs around and then each person walked by and let his or her dog sniff everyone else's butt. Rose only needed that to happen a couple of times before she figured out that that's what was expec...
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:50 am
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: New dog: adjustment questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2433
New dog: adjustment questions
Hi all! We've just adopted a terrier mix from the shelter, 5-year-old Lily. She and Rose, our Yorkie rescue, are doing pretty well together, but adjusting is... a process. So a couple questions: First off, neither of them is being particularly house trained, which I know is really mostly nerves and ...
- Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:40 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Oh, help, sudden new fear!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2460
Re: Oh, help, sudden new fear!
Good point, Ari's person, but yes, the dogs are supervised when they go out, and we didn't see anything happen. She's been perfectly normal (for her) otherwise-- normal walks, normal play behavior, normal mealtimes. It's weird because it's just that back door, so it certainly seems like something ha...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:48 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Oh, help, sudden new fear!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2460
Re: Oh, help, sudden new fear!
Oh, I should add that she doesn't seem to be injured, either-- my first thought. She still happily jumps up onto her favorite chair and gallops delightedly across the house. So it's not apparently physical.
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:17 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Oh, help, sudden new fear!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2460
Oh, help, sudden new fear!
I have no idea what's happened, but Rose is suddenly phobic about the back entrance and stairs! She stayed out for an hour this evening, to scared to come in and too scared to let us catch her and bring her in. She's been fine with the back door before and we don't think there's been anything releva...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:51 am
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: working with nervous dog
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3882
Re: working with nervous dog
Also your dog's background would help. Some dogs are nervous for perfectly good reasons, like having experienced people mostly as big ol' meanies!
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:41 am
- Forum: Success Stories
- Topic: Rose is learning to play
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4110
Re: Rose is learning to play
It's amazing stuff, isn't it, Bendog? Imagine what these guys have gone through, and just for them to trust us to do things like scratch their ears is nothing short of a miracle, but when they start to do normal dog things... wow. Just wow. It's hard to explain to someone with a "normal" d...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:35 am
- Forum: Success Stories
- Topic: A health success....no diarrhea and moved to RAW feeding
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12189
Re: A health success....no diarrhea and moved to RAW feeding
Wow, JD, it never rains but it pours! I'm so glad he's with you, though, getting such good care, the poor guy.