barb
housebroken
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Post by barb on Aug 20, 2005 17:25:37 GMT -5
Jake is housetrained pretty good, he has accidents but it seems to be our fault (not paying attention, excited pees). We figured out last night (after an accident) that he sits and lays by the door when he wants to go out. the thing about this is he does not 'say' anything or do anything else so if we do not see him sitting there right away he has an accident like last night. How can we train him to 'tell' us he needs to go outside? Thanks for answering my questions! barb
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Post by Brooke on Aug 21, 2005 23:44:26 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of teaching a dog to bark to go to the restroom. I'm also not much of a fan of teaching a dog to use bells to go either but I'd rather see you do that than getting him to bark. Most of the dogs I have had have had have sat in front of me and stared at me. Although... Kuma and Peeka both also learned to grunt at me (well Kuma will give me one small quiet whine as she stares at me by the doorway and Peeka will just stand directly in front of whatever I'm looking at or in front of me if I'm reading and grunt at me.) Anyway...I'm not sure if this was something that just came with time. I contribute this to having them on a leash at all times until they are 100% on their house training. Have you read our article yet?? It has everything we did to train our dogs. If you haven't... here it is dogden.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=articles&action=display&thread=1074722872I would just keep a 6 ft leash on him. If you are doing something, sit, wrap it around you somewhere or stand on it. As soon as you feel it move your attention should be more likely to go to him. If he understands that this is the signal he's trying to give you either 1... he will try and go right there in front of you if you aren't paying attention and you can correct him. This should cause him to think of another way to let you know. Or 2... he will whine which is where you praise him and rush him out.
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Post by sheeba on Aug 22, 2005 9:23:52 GMT -5
My dogs are both different in their alert methods, I think you just have to learn what your dogs is and when your dog does it then you will know, I don't think teachingthem to do somethings, because when confused a dog will go back to it's natural way so, I would just rather learn a bit about my dog and watch out for it. Sheeba will circle around our kitchen, dining room, and living room, somebody is always in one of those rooms. Jenny the more vocal of the two will either jump on the door, just once, or let out a quiet whine.
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Post by Aussienot on Aug 26, 2005 21:49:53 GMT -5
My two have developed very effective if unorthodox ways of alerting me. Sailor acts particularly annoyingly animated, jumping up and down and staring at me and grunting slightly and panting a lot. Eventually it gets on my nerves, I notice she's acting stupid, and then it dawns on me, and I get up and let her out.
Finn lies quietly by the door. Quiet and out of site is unusual behavior for him, generally signalling trouble, and always draws my immediate attention.
With Jake being just a puppy, it's not his job to let you know he needs to go out. It's your job to anticipate before he needs to. His only job at this point is to develop the muscle power and the thought process to only go in the right spot. So I'd hold off trying to complicate the process at this point. My advise is to wait until he's completely housebroken and into the adolescent stage before you complicate things by adding a signal.
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Post by hunterr1950 on Dec 24, 2005 9:06:08 GMT -5
Jim taught King to “shake out his coat” if he wanted to go outside. He would stand at the door & shake all over – even if you were in a different room, you could hear his chain rattle.
My daughter taught her dog to use the cow bell. Since there are 3 levels to her house & Gidget runs loose. Anyone can hear the bell even in the basement. It has defiantly saved a lot of cleaning from “Accidents”! the only problem with the bell – when Gidget “sees” her friend outside & wants to join him – she is constantly ringing it! It’s not that hard to train them this trick. Every time you get ready to take your baby outside, have them sit (so they are calm & can see what you are doing) – put the lead on & then ring the bell. I think it only took Sandy about a week to train Gidget - & Sandy isn’t all that smart when it comes to training a dog!
Linda & Annie
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