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Hi!! there i've got a shihpoo puppy. She is 8 weeks old. She can potty at the right place and sit. What should i teach her for next step. I'm confusing what to teach step by step and how long for training per day. She seem to be hungry all the time and follow everyone who has food or making a...
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Since, I can't really take him out for decent walks ( goes crazy crossing other dogs and stray cats and pulls so hard he pants the whole way) I only take him out a few times a week, even if, thats not certain. I also at this moment can't walk both at the same time so I mostly take out Layla,...
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That is really well-said. There are really three types of behavior, which are (1) inappropriate, unwanted, and dangerous, (2) appropriate, non-problematic, and essentially OK, and (3) special, new, desired, and perhaps unnatural behavior, such as tricks and assistance functions. Anything in category...
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Hi all, Just a quick question. We plan on getting a new kennel for our 4 month old lab mix Chloe. We have a kennel we borrowed from a friend -- a big 42" one like this -- but we're looking to buy a kennel cab for her instead. This will be her new bed/den. I was wondering if I should restart...
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She snapped our feet everytime and I don't now anything about potty time with my little 2 months old Rat Terrier???
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Hi all, I have a few puppy questions and rather than flood the forums with posts for each one, I thought I'd keep everything in one spot. Quick context: Chloe is a female 13 week old black lab mix (unsure of the mix -- she was born on a farm and momma dog was never intended to be pregnant). I'm...
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Shelagh - that is an impressive and well-written observation of communication and behavior modification and control. As an electronics engineer, I can relate to this by comparing it to what is known as PID control, which refers to Proportional, Integral, and Derivative. You can read a rather detailed...
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Welcome to the virtual pack! I don't have any specific suggestions, but I wanted to know what you mean about her "getting nasty". I have experienced several occasions where Muttley has gone after another dog to various degrees. In some cases he has caused injury, but in recent incidents...
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It's ironic that some of the nastiest and most negative comments about Cesar have appeared on Victoria Stilwell's www.positively.com forum, where people want to "wring his neck" for performing necessary and appropriate physical corrections on some "Red Zone" dogs. But they...
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I found this link on a post in the rec.pets.dogs.behavior newsgroup, and it is a really awesome video of an obviously well trained and balanced pack of dogs doing tricks and having fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pkPNa4DBFHI Not knowing what the "mirror method" was, I used dogpile...