Search found 26 matches

by chorbs
Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:51 am
Forum: Dog Training Advice
Topic: Almost ready to get rid of puppy ............. sadly
Replies: 23
Views: 13180

Re: Almost ready to get rid of puppy ............. sadly

JACKSDAD & SARAH83 & JO_SMITH ~~~ thank you soooooo much for your understanding about the rehoming. As negative statement about rehoming REALLY DO feel like shaming. I am 51 yrs old and have NEVER had a dog. I was bit in the face when young and have almost been frightened of them ever since....
by chorbs
Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:12 am
Forum: Dog Training Advice
Topic: Almost ready to get rid of puppy ............. sadly
Replies: 23
Views: 13180

Almost ready to get rid of puppy ............. sadly

lease, PLEASE be kind and gentle with your responses to this as I'm about at my wits end and it takes everything I have to not cry about this whole thing as it is. Jamie is just over 5 months old; we've had her since she was 2 months old. Thus, I've been trying to housetrain her for over 3 months an...
by chorbs
Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:09 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: Almost ready to get rid of puppy .............
Replies: 9
Views: 7073

Almost ready to get rid of puppy .............

Please, PLEASE be kind and gentle with your responses to this as I'm about at my wits end and it takes everything I have to not cry about this whole thing as it is. Jamie is just over 5 months old; we've had her since she was 2 months old. Thus, I've been trying to housetrain her for over 3 months a...
by chorbs
Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:55 am
Forum: Dog Training Advice
Topic: Housetraining ........ the saga !!!
Replies: 4
Views: 2428

Housetraining ........ the saga !!!

Jamie is now just over four months old. We've had her for two months. She seems to be settling in pretty good; her elimination habits seem to be regulating; she's getting used to the routines; she's definitely learned 'sit' and 'lay down', we're working on others. But after two months of working on...
by chorbs
Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:28 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: TREAT Training ........
Replies: 8
Views: 5685

Re: TREAT Training ........

Ah-ha, Emmabeth, Pavlov's dog ..... that's what I thought. After quite awhile they'll do it just because they 'might' get a treat or because it's just plain become what they know to do. Thank you !!!
by chorbs
Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:09 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: TREAT Training ........
Replies: 8
Views: 5685

Re: TREAT Training ........

"When you are a little kid you do a chore you get a sticker or some candy or a 'Good Job!' or a few pennies right away." Lolol - maybe these days !!! I'm older and if you didn't do what you were told, when "I" was little, you got punished, maybe even spanked. If you 'did' do it y...
by chorbs
Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:10 am
Forum: Dog Training Advice
Topic: stop barking
Replies: 12
Views: 4831

Re: stop barking

I've read more than one place, and on my puppies food bag that after 10-12 weeks the feeding should only be 2 times a day (the variance here might how much activity the dog gets.) Just my $.02
by chorbs
Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:05 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: Okay, call me stupid perhaps.......
Replies: 4
Views: 6380

Okay, call me stupid perhaps.......

but I've never done this before !! I think this morning I might have realized a difference between 'let' Jamie out and 'take' Jamie out. I was letting her out; I'd take her out, hook her on her outside leash, and wait around (i.e. sit on the deck steps, etc.) until she'd go = let. And I couldn't qui...
by chorbs
Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:44 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: Housetraining continued.
Replies: 12
Views: 10484

Re: Housetraining continued.

Lololol, I agree, the bathtub is VERY convenient for cleaning !!! I 'hope' she gets it eventually. Just 'feels' like she isn't and 'I' feel like I'm doing nothing but dog all day and getting nothing else done. Not that that is necessarily bad either, for the dogs sake, except I have a family and hou...
by chorbs
Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:00 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: Housetraining continued.
Replies: 12
Views: 10484

Re: Housetraining continued.

Ahhhhhhh !!! It's only been a little while since I last posted and already ...... ahhhhhh !! Okay ...... she pees outside ("good girl, good Jamie") set alarm for 45 mins 20 min later, I go outside for something, she comes with, pees again ("good girl, good Jamie") reset alarm for...
by chorbs
Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:16 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: TREAT Training ........
Replies: 8
Views: 5685

TREAT Training ........

Okay, smart almost 4 month old pup here. I have questions about the treat training. I'm using it and she's picked up "sit, down (or lay down), wait, leave it; we're working on others. My question is; this works like a Pavlov's dog thing ?? For instance, "drop it". If she has a plush a...
by chorbs
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:18 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: Housetraining continued.
Replies: 12
Views: 10484

Re: Housetraining continued.

Thanks guys. I'm an old lady :o( and this is my first dog. She's a real sweetie and I'd really like to make this work. And I realize, much to my chagrin, it's going to be up to me alone to make it work. And I know she's smart; she's already got 'sit', 'lay down' (or down), 'drop it', 'wait', and we'...
by chorbs
Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:55 am
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: Housetraining continued.
Replies: 12
Views: 10484

Re: Housetraining continued.

BRIAN10 wrote:She was found in her bathtub and her two sons were found in the bathtub in another room. Their deaths resulted from a combination of strangulation and suffocation by drowning.


Huh ?










unsolved murders

Huh??
by chorbs
Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:55 pm
Forum: Training Tools
Topic: Housetraining continued.
Replies: 12
Views: 10484

Housetraining continued.

But actually, since I'm just back from a 1 week vacation, I'm considering it starting all over again. Jamie is almost 4 ms old. She is gated in the mud room all night; she does not potty in the mud room. My hub lets her out when he gets up, she poops and pees, he's sweet on her, then she's put back ...
by chorbs
Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:44 am
Forum: Health, Diet and Exercise
Topic: Feeding Puppy
Replies: 4
Views: 1853

Feeding Puppy

Jamie is just over 3 months old. She's a dachshund/smooth fox terrier mix (basic mutt !!) I'm feeding her Purina Puppy Chow. But when I give her just that she sniffs and walks away so I've been adding it to maybe 2-3 tablespoons of a canned food. She's eating that pretty good. And I've learned that ...