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Originally Posted by GeorgiaGrits  My little Elvis would always poop in his crate when we left and come to find out, he has separation anxiety. He gets so stressed being left alone and wants to find us so badly that his little bowels "move".
I hope someone on here gave you some good advice (I did not read all the remarks)...I was advised to check into the "Dog Whisperer" DVD and plan to do that...just an idea for you. Good luck! |
The Dog Whisperer is a good place to start. He truely understads dogs. He hass spent his life studying their behavior first hand.
Dogs act of of emotions that that they are feeling at the moment. They resopnd to what is going on right now, just like a baby does.
In order to plot revenge, you have to have much higher level of thinking. You have to think about something that happened that made you mad, then think about what you can do to retaliate. And you have to be able to reason that pooping on the floor or eating the sofa is going to make the human mad, and then reason that all though they will be mad at you that it is worth it.
If the dog tears up the garbage sand everytime you ciome home fyou start yelling, he is cowering because he knows that when you come home he is going to get yelled at. He does not even remember that he tore up the garbage.
People tend to put their own personal emotions into the dogs mind, that makes as much sense as putting the power of reasoning into an infants mind.
I know I'm not going to change the way that many of you think on the subject, but I also know that until you change your way of thinking and start thinking like the dog, the dog will continue to do what he is doing and you will continue to believe that you cannot control it.
The Dog whisperer does not train dogs, he trains people to think like the dog, and that is how he solves the problems. And if gets people that refuse to change their way of thinking, he tells them right out "I cannot help you"