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02-17-2009, 08:32 AM | #16 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Saskatchewan
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| Thanks for the tips! And sorry for hijacking the thread I know that she usually spends most of the day sleeping on my bed. She's just getting up with bedhead when I get home from work and even most weekends, or if I'm home sick, she will spend most of the day sleeping (besides when I take her out for walks) because that's just her schedule! I have never had a crate for her so I'm not sure how easy it would be to train her now. She screams and cries if I close my bedroom door on her when she's in there alone. We live in a duplex and the other half of the house has a stay-at-home mom with a newborn baby so I don't want to risk being evicted if she's crying all day I wonder if it would be enough to just cordon off an area for her... like living room and hallway (it's a pretty small space!) where there is NO carpet. She does not pee on the laminate floors and I trust her 100% there. So then when I am home, she can have the rest of the house too. Maybe a crate would work better... but until I own my own place I'm too worried about the noise she'll make!
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02-17-2009, 08:35 AM | #17 |
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| How do you get the scary pups use to the bell? My dog is terrified of the bell so i manually place his paw on the bell to ring it. |
02-17-2009, 08:41 AM | #18 | |
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02-17-2009, 08:42 AM | #19 |
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| I think I will try to start the bell-training this weekend if I can find some bells! Thanks for the help!
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02-17-2009, 08:48 AM | #20 | |
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Or you could just do simple reward training. Start small....jingle the bell slightly, give a treat. Over and over and over. Then, when it seems like he's waiting for the bell so he'll get a treat, jingle it longer or louder. Then when that's good, use his paw to jingle it, give a treat. Over and over. Pretty soon, I'll bet he understands that if he jingles the bell with his paw, he gets a treat, and hopefully the lure of the treat will be enough to overcome the fear. I would use either tiny bits of chicken or tiny bits of cheese as a treat (they are both really enticing treats!) After he's jingling the bell himself to get a treat, you'll have to pair it with taking him out each time, so that he understands that jingling the bell means he's going out to potty, and then gradually start treating the pottying outside and not the bell. Pretty soon he'll understand bell means outside potty means TREAT!!! Good luck! Good luck!
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02-17-2009, 11:07 AM | #21 |
YT Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Nevada
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| I vote scared pups need to just be forced to do it every time - hit the bell with a paw. I think that for the most part, dogs enjoy going outside, so taking him/her outside immediately after the bell ring is actually a special treat in itself - which is of course why they all start trying to abuse the bell once they get it! Nikko was very very scared at first, but eventually he discovered that hitting it was a good thing - it meant he could go outside! Suddenly he was not so afraid of it, and instead decided to hit it every two minutes, lol. Lauren & Nikko |
02-18-2009, 09:51 AM | #22 |
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| Yeah Im thinkin that would happen at my house too. But all the dogs would get in on the action and I might as well move outside into the driveway! hehe
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02-18-2009, 10:04 AM | #23 |
♥ love my girls!! ♥ Donating Member | update... Well, we've decided to work on one thing at a time....learn to potty outside first, theeeeennnn learn to use the bells when you need to go. Between watching for signals and taking her out when we thought she needed to potty AND taking her out every time she rang the bells (which was a LOT), we were outside every 2 min .....literally! So, no more bells until she "gets it" with pottying outside. But we WILL be teaching her to use them after she "gets it"!
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