I think your mom is not trying to be mean to your dog. She probably is getting frustrated with him because she just doesn't know how to potty train him. She might even think shes training him correctly and youre the one who is not helping train him. I know, hard to see that way.
I'd suggest either watching some videos together or reading some books together.
When we first got Kona and he was having issues with barking, it would drive me nuts. I didn't know how to handle him or train him to be better. We even had dog trainers come by to help us. Then my husband got us some books and turned me on to some videos that gave me better tools. So I wasn't so frustrated and our dog got trained.
Here are some of the tv shows, videos, books, and magazines that we got that really helped us have more tools and gave us a really good dog:
Tv - Dog Whisperer, it's me or the dog
Magazines - Yorkshire terrier puppies (at petco)
Books - house train your dog in 7 days, all caesar millan's books, monks of new skeet, books by Ian dunbar
Videos - caesar millan's training videos ordered from his website
As you can tell, we meant business with trying to have a dog that we can live with and enjoy. It's been the best having him. |