Gracie taught me very quickly that telling her she did a bad thing did not work well with her. She is also one to "talk back." She is the alpha. She is quite the one to talk back to me so we have had to find other ways of dealing with issues like potty training. She was fantastic about using her pee pads from day one but when she was about 10 months old decided that peeing beside the pad worked better for her than on it. After trying to shame her out of it I found that just rewarding her for doing it right worked best and now she does it right every time. I'm kind of suspecting that it was her plan the whole time to get some treats out of me! |