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Originally Posted by MyFairLacy  wow. If you were my boyfriend and treated my dog like that I'd dumb your ass. I wouldn't have someone in my life that didn't love my dogs and treat them well. Take the dog out more often. Punishing does not work and teaching a dog to be afraid of you is aweful. If you are really that concerned about pee, get all hard floors so it can be easily cleaned up or use belly bands. |
Having dog urine everywhere is unsanitary. Do you pee all over your house? If she wants to dump me for attempting to train her dog then I'd be better off without her. Its apparent that she hasn't done the groundwork herself. She should be and is thankful for me putting forth the effort.
I've never had dogs that needed to be taken out that often unless they were puppies, but I do understand that there is a difference. He's gonna be taken out every 3 hours from now on.
Punishing has actually worked better with every dog I've ever trained. We never gave our dogs treats - just praise. This dog gets a treat every time he does what he's suppose to - go outside. All our dogs were trained young (6-8 months) and at 18 months peeing right in front of your face 15 minutes after being taken out was unheard of. Sadly you blame the owners for most untrained dogs. He's catching on - my girlfriend isn't. I love the heck out of her though and training the dog is worth any amount of effort to me. That includes taking tips at 1AM when I've got a 7AM show time at work.
At least after training the dog and cleaning up after him, I'm online attempting to figure out how to properly take care of him.