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That breaks my heart. If you cant be with your puppy, then please give it away to someone who will spend quality time with her. How sad, left alone all that time. She is already been taken away from her mom and siblings, now to just be left alone all day and night. As for the bottom post on if there...

That makes more sense then just avoiding the word altogether. When Bella jumps up on company, I do say 'no' get down. Or if she tries to beg for food, Ill say 'no' go lay down.
Thank you

I have noticed on this board that most users dont like to use the word 'NO' to train dogs. What I am wondering is, what is the difference between saying 'no' and saying 'leave it'? Your pretty much using the same tone just a different word. I use the word No alot but not over and over, just one No a...

I have posted here before about my 5 month old maltese. My husband and the office he works in seems to believe in something called the Alpha male and female. Basically is that situation one must always make sure that your dog does not become that. Example, leash walking....in the alpha world, one mu...

OMG that is toooo funny!!! My kinda girl!

and this is Bella when she was just 8 weeks old, she is now 18 weeks and doubled in size.

Yeah! it loaded....so can anyone give me step by step instructions as to how to put this pictures next to my user name when I post?

I just wanted to test this out to see if my Bella's picture finally uploads so here it goes....

I agree with maxie, unless its with a private trainer, I cant imagine she would be anything but freaked out with alot of strange dogs around her. By the way, whos giant pictures are posted? Just curious, good looking guy but I cant even figure out how to upload a picture of my pooch.

thanks for all the advice. I will train her everyday throughout the day, the only problem is that I will have to leave her alone during some of those times...places just will not let me bring a dog in and I refuse to ever leave my dog in a car...I live in Florida and I call 911 all the time... I see...

About that crate/play yard, she loves to sleep in it at night when we go into our seperate rooms. So that might help you to understand her mindset. Sometimes she voluntarily goes into 'her' area and lays by her big stuffed puppy doll to sleep, and throughout the day when I am here which is almost al...

Thanks for all the advice but I do have a question...when I leave her alone for a few minutes at a time, am I leaving her in her crate and when I come back in, do I take her out of the crate or just praise her 'in' in the crate and go back out? Oh, I tried the frozen kong thing. I put hot dogs insid...

I wondered if anyone thinks it is mean to keep my 5 month old maltese in a play yard inside our town house while I am gone for 2-3 hours? I put food, water, toys and she even has a litter box she uses which is attached to the yard. She has terrible separation axiety so I put in one of my shirts and ...

After a full day of activity which included Bella, my husband, son and I went out for dinner...a quick one to boot. When we came home ( I didnt cage her, just let her free with doors closed and litter box open) we found the mini blinds broken, the air freshener pulled from its cradle, she peed outsi...

My 4 month old maltese puppy is doing great with some training, however...every time my husband either comes home, or tries to leash her to take her out, she pees. She gets this wierd look on her face and starts to curl up in a weird submissive stance and pees everywhere! I told my husband that I th...