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Jul 8, 2004, 7:06 PM
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sbt,
I'm glad that you have come back with very positive response. It shows a very approchable man who is willing to improve himself and I have to give u commendation for that very reason.
before we proceed, I would like to reflect to you these word with a million positive tone in dog training
"Behaviour that lead to success/reward will show itself more and more while behaviour that is unsuccessful/unrewarded will show itself less n less and may dissapear"
I will let you absorb the meaning slowly but always remember this in everyday life when living with a companion called dog.
Your puppy is merely 8 weeks old and the longest he could possibly hold the pee is about 35-45 mins while pooing about 3 hours. It is same as human infants and we do not blame them for soiling the bed for the fact that
1) they do not know soiling is wrong in the first place.
2) the dont have such a strong traction control immediately.
Basically what I learned is to get a newspaper and absolved the urine and place it at a designated place/spot we wish the puppy to poo/pee.
I also cleaned up the spot. This is done with the hope that the puppy will smell the newspaper and do it at the designated place. So far this is not working
It is very good that you describe the method as above. Now I can see where u may have gone astray here. Methods abounds and the method u mentioned above have a very big loophole there. I will try to give u a scenario from a dogs prespective. I dont understand my master's language....dont know what he is trying to tell me. Oh I see that rolled paper....hmmm got some of my smell on it..hehehe thats nice. Maybe I can put more of my smell everywhere lol....
The point here is, before we go to base 2 we have to start at base 1. The dog does not know anything yet. To the animal poo n pee anywhere is not in violation. However as a matter of instinct they would not want to poo on themselves and sleep on it if they can. What u might want to teach the dog first is not to aim at the bullseye but just not poo in the cage. As long as he does not poo in the cage u should sound very happy and praise n reward him with food treats and play with him. After a few times like this he will know if I do it in cage I get nothing and if I do it outside then I get master happy. Naturally dog is a pack animal meaning he want his pack leader (you) to be proud of him and he will reserve his poo longer n longer to poo outside.
Aftet that, once he already gets it, u no longer praise him for pooing outside but to poo around n near the tree. One way of getting him to the tree is u walk him there and act like nothing happens until he suddenly poo or pee....then WOW....thats a GOOOOOOD BOYYY...pet him energetically, laugh, smiles, jump act like a bozo is perfectly ok with the dog and he would liked that very much and reach into your pocket and hand him a nice treat. Do this everytime for 1 month continuously and believe me he wouldnt want to poo n pee anywhere else.
Actually when we are out we put him into his cage 4’ x 3’ at our backyard and will let him out when we are in. He has plenty of space to run about, as the garden area is 40’ by 80’ of land. We want him to do his business near a tree at our garden. If we let him into the house, hopefully he will go into the toilet. So far he has poo on the car porch most of the time and anywhere and everywhere around the garden
Kenelling is good but at this moment 4x3 may be a little big for a small puppy. As I mentioned earlier, puppy iunstinctively does not want to poo n poo n sleep on those if he has a choice. When housebreaking, we are using this very instinct. In a 4x3, the puppy have space big enough to pee at one corner and sleep in another corner and he learns that poo n pee in kennel is ok. One way is to use a smaller portable plastic cage which just fits the dog so that he will hold the traction and once u let him out quickly bait him to the place u want him to poo n pee and he will start shooting outside. Wallah!
We scolded and beat him with a slipper on his buttock and drag him to the spot where we want him to do his business. My wife also tied him near the tree but to no avail
wherever u learnt this from and whomever u learn this from please return it back to them together with the package. This is as ancient as when my great grandmother was rearing dogs for the sole reason of being a watch dog. To illustrate my point to be clearer to you, again I will do a dog perpective demo.
Ohhhh....please lemme out lemme out,,,I cant hold it any more......okie okie...I'm out I'm out yaaaay......ahhhhhh....wat a feeling...phew....that's niceee.....ARRRRRRRGH...wat happened outchhhhhh its painful....I'm so scared....arrrghhh why is my master beating me .....why is he....pulling me......under the tree???? wat he wants? I'm so confused.....
Kindly, this is dog abuse when u punish a dog and he still learns nothing and have no idea at all why he is being punished.
Every morning before going to work, we will feed him and let him play for around 40 mins, and hopefully he will “discharge” and we will put him back into the cage. Sometimes he will poo in the cage before we get up. Every evening when we come back from work, we will feed him again and let him out to play for 11/2 with us around, and another 1-2 hours buy himself. We will put him in the cage for sleeping time.
Professionally, you should have got a properly house broken dog of 8 months old at least cause 8 weeks old dog is being caged up and only let out only at the interval of more than 10 hours apart. Surely he has to pee n poo inside. Rightfully, an 8 weeks dog needs to be let out every 1/2 hour at first to eliminate outside as per method above and avoid accidents in the kennel. If you are working then someone else should let the pup out regularly. Otherwise he will live with the poo n pee inside kennel and learn to accept that master wants me to sleep on my own poo n soak in my own urine for the rest of his live. Sadly and as hard as this may sound....it is the gospel truth.
I think u should pick up some good titles to read on and try to understand dog behaviour. Dog owning isnt very hard to do and once u understand the underlying behaviours you will be able to handle them effectively and mould them into a piece of "poetry in motion". Please take tyhis constructively
PSD
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"Take this trouble for me:
Make sure my shepherd dog remains a working dog, for I have struggled all my life long for that aim ."
Rittmeister Capt. Max von Stephanitz (1864-1936)
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. However there are always dogs whom are genetically not correct where theiur food drive is so poor that u cannot use food as a reward on them successfully.