Monday, May 21, 2007

Potty training the battle

I know from experance that potty training a puppy or even a adopted older dog can be a challange. My dogTrudy was the hard head and took forever to get her to know what I wanted. What I have found is that what works for some dogs doesn't others. Some dog are egar to please others are somewhat caught up in thier own little world and then there is the dogs that can't sit still thier attention span is usaully short lived.

For my harded dog what work for her was laying out pads in a room that I rescricted her to and every two hour I take her for a walk and praise her if she did her business. I she went on the pads I show it to her and in a firm voice say No, No, then I walk her to the door take her paw make her scratch the door and we go out for another walk. In a weeks time , I started to put down less pads. Did this until pads reached the door and I started notice she ask to go out then I knew she ask if she have to go and the 2 hour walk I didn't do as much.

This method like I said before dosen't work for everyone . My Sister tried it and her puppy just tore up the pads made a mess. If you want a site that offers a free lesson on training your dog I found this one just click here. No matter what method you try in training your dog. Remember patience is the key on your part in making whatever you want your dog to do happen. Just keep doing it over and over your dog get the idea

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

What may you ask is “DOGGY TAILS”? If you are dog lover than you’ll find out!!

Doggy TAILS are tales of my experiences with my dog Trudy she is a half breed but don’t hold that against her. She is part dachshund “wiener dog” and the other half unknown. She has a brown coat with shades of black , sometimes a folded ear tip (She was born with it completely fold up and looked like she had half a ear.) but as she grew her ear unfolded.
Trudy had ruff start in life. As a puppy she had Parvo and I thought I was not going to see her grow up. Thank God for veterinarians, are local vet fixed her right up. I can’t stress enough the importance of puppy vaccinations. Puppy’s like babies they are so fragile when young vaccines help keep them healthy.

Like most puppies Trudy was hard to potty train. Her biggest problem was she was hard headed ,that she copied from me. She like’s things done her own way. She won’t even sit on bare cement, your highness has to have a rug or chair. She finally learned to go out side because I let her know my head was bigger than hers. Plus I got a few tips from puppy and dog training online if you like know more CLICK HERE

Trudy is the joy of my life and always makes me laugh. She hates it when I am to busy and looks for ways to distract me. One way she does this is act as though someone is at the door. By going to the door barking then back to me ,like Get up see who it is? She use’s this trick to get food away from my mother’s dog Pete as well she’ll lures him away then run back and get her prize.
I have dozen of tales to share but I invite you to share yours. I’ll post more later see ya.