Belle has had a couple of accidents in the house, seh is peepad trained but has strayed a little and is having accidents in my parents room... usually she's my shadow at all times, and when i am not home she's in my room, with the door closed... she has managed to sneak off and pee/poo in my parents room...
well my parents won't let me dicipline her like i am supposed to and they are getting frustrated, my mom says that this is how she trained our other dogs some years back and this is how she wants to train belle: by showing her what she did, and smacking her behind with newspaper, and saying "Bad girl" i've told them time and time again that this doesn't work, and that they shouldn't do things like that, bc it's just going to frustrate her, and make her scared of them and whatnot... but they are upset that she's having accidents, and whatever training technique i bring up they discard as if i have no clue what i'm talking about... but i do believe in the stuff that cesar millan says, and the energies in my house are conflicting when it comes to correcting belle's behaviors so i'm sure that confuses her as well... plus everyone wants to do whatever different diciplining when it comes to it, so how is she ever supposed to learn something if everyone does something different to correct the same behavior!?!?!?!
i.e. when she barks i always say "shh" and it works most of the time, my parents get frantic and start yelling, shut up, be quite, hush... etc... their energy is anything but calm and assertive... they get frustrated, and i think she picks up on that and gets frustrated too... i try to remain calm and assertive, but end up getting frustrated too, not with belle but with my parents... who dismiss everything i say, even though i'm the one that talks to trainers and does any research...
sorry it's so long, i just had to vent... i just want to scream right now...
(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH):mad :