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Originally Posted by southernbelle04  Oh man! Y'all! Katie Scarlett is so in those 'teen' years! Ok, she has been doing FABULOUS on her potty training! Hasn't had an accident in weeks! Well just a bit ago, she walked onto the pad, sniffed it. Walked off the pad and over to the carpet and squatted and tee tee'd!  I was shocked! She hasn't had an accident in so long!!!
So as I was cleaning up, I did get on to her. I told her that we do not tee tee on the carpet and she should be ashamed of herself. Well she started to do what we are calling 'backbarking.' It's not a loud bark. It's very quiet. Almost a muffled, low bark. Not a growl but just a quick ruff. It's like she is sass talking back at her Momma!! Can you believe that?! Little booger! She is now in time out for backbarking! Am I doing the wrong thing? I have to let her know that I am the boss (alpha so to speak) and that what I say goes. She knows what the word 'timeout' means I think. Because if she is ever in the house and does more than the 3 warning barks we allow, I look and say 'you want timeout?' and she immediately stops barking.
It's so hard to get on to her with her being so cute. LOL. Of course, I do not hit her or anything like that. I don't even yell. I just say what I need to say in a firm voice. It's all I can do not too laugh, but I am trying. 
Do your babies press their luck?  |
Yep! My little girl backtalk us too
especially to her daddy. I do what you do, I let her have her say, after all this is not a dictatorship (it is only for her daddy), but then I tell her that's not very nice and how I wouldn't dream of backtalking to MY mommy and how lucky she (my little girl) is to have a mommy who understands the pressures of teenagehood a la Yorkie
