Also, do you think it would be too early to mark his collar? I mean marking as I grab his collar. I've marking as I put the collar on but if I grab his collar I don't want him to see it as a correction.
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There hasn't really been any mistakes for a while except for today. I let him out just before 8, went to take a shower and when I came out he had peed in his crate, which I thought was weird. But he may have needed a little more time outside I guess. My adult dog I had trained for the most part in 4 days. I think this pup is harder to train because of so much travel time where he was messing his crate, and I think the breeder left him in the crate for long periods and wouldve messed in the crate there.
Try not to compare your current puppy to your adult dog. Your puppy is like a toddler and your adult dog is not a toddler. You might want to focus on builiding up trust and bond with him. You want him to be happy and confident when he sees you.
Make sure to stick with his schedule to help with housebreaking. Remmy,he is like a toddler and you expect toddler to have accident in his diaper.. Soo.. He will have accidents in the crate. Try not to make a big deal out of it.
"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right"
Thanks. I know about the right after meals suggestions and went through that. Even with water he would hold it for a while if I went outside 15 minutes or 30 minutes afterwards. About an hour for him seems good if he drinks lots of water. And I have tried walking him a few blocks, but waiting seems to work better.
When I was in puppy class with my Malinois two years ago, the trainer suggested a great method for house training.
She said, get a thick newspaper and roll it up real tight. Then, if your dog pees in the house, take the rolled up newspaper and smack yourself in the head with it a few times, while repeating "I will not take my eyes off my puppy...I will not take my eyes off my puppy..."
When I was in puppy class with my Malinois two years ago, the trainer suggested a great method for house training.
She said, get a thick newspaper and roll it up real tight. Then, if your dog pees in the house, take the rolled up newspaper and smack yourself in the head with it a few times, while repeating "I will not take my eyes off my puppy...I will not take my eyes off my puppy..."
Works great.
I prefer about 18" of a 2 x 4... so much better than "nagging" myself with a cushy rolled up newspaper!
As I have read, translated, read an re-read Eds articles I really would like to point out that the article about teaching puppies the meaning of NO is a very old article. In the "Theory of corrections in dog training Ed writes:
"15 years ago when I was breeding some very hard puppies I wrote an article titled “Teaching Your Puppy the Meaning of the Word NO.” In it I recommended grabbing the pup (when it was biting you or a family member) by the nape of the neck and shaking until it squealed like a pig. Well that advice was wrong. It worked for my pups because they were hard pups and recovered quickly from a correction (and handler mistakes). Soft puppies could have some serious problems with this treatment.
Today I recommend that we can get the point across with most (not all) pups by simply grabbing a pup firmly by the scruff of both cheeks and firmly holding them as we stare into their eyes and firmly warn them to “KNOCK IT OFF”. You could even growl at them until they submit (just as their mother did).
Shaking them until they squeal like a pig only scares them and does nothing to build the relationship."
I think this is a very important addition and unfortunately can be overlooked if one only reads the puppy article and not the theory of corrections.
And for anyone who reads this, the technique is demonstrated in the 'Dealing With Dominant and Aggressive Dogs DVD'. It is near the start of the video, and he works up the puppy (which you should not try he says) and demonstrates holding the puppy by the cheeks and saying 'no'.
I said i was gonna stay out of this but......... Why do you think you have a dominant pup? I ask this because i've met a few "dominant" dogs that weren't dominant at all, i think a lot of people leave a leadership void, the dog acts like a dog and instead of just doing basic training it's easier to say the dog has this temperament. How about a link to a video of this 12 wk old beast?
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