Puppy potty training is always first on the agenda for my clients with a new puppy. Puppy potty training is almost always the one thing new puppy owners also have the hardest time with because of pitfalls they don't realize.

One pitfall new puppy owners can't seem to understand is that the more unsupervised free time in your home the puppy is allowed to have, you are setting the puppy up to have failure after failure in learning to be potty trained.

Until puppies get to be closer to 5-6 months of age, there is not a strong connection between the brain and the bowels and bladder. They feel the urge to go, they squat and go. To achieve successful puppy potty training you must be proactive instead of reactive with their training.

Midnight and I were watching one of her favorite Twilight Zone episodes last night. The SciFi channel runs a July 4th marathon of the best shows.

They reran The Hunt with Arthur Hunnicutt and Jeanette Nolan (1962). It's the one where the old mountain man and his coon dog are out on a hunt one night, and they both drown, but don't know it at first.

The crux of the story is after he figures it out, they're walking along this dirt road and come to a gate. The road's well kept and tree lined, and the old man is invited in, but the dog won't go in, and the gate keeper says, that's okay, we don't allow dogs, anyway. There's a nice place down the road for them.

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I recently read a blog posted by dog trainer,G.D. Williams, on how to correct puppy biting. I must say that I was absolutely appalled at the suggestion that an owner should “come down hard on the puppy” and give the puppy, among other things, a “strong blow to the nose!” This sounds like something out of the dark ages.

The example given was based on a daughter who decided to share some fat scraps from her dinner plate with the puppy and the puppy bit her. Behavioral science teaches us positive methods to train, correct and redirect our puppies allowing us to leave behind forever the old “school of hard knocks”.

Family dog aggression precipitated an email to me from a lady in California (she found me on the internet) who is desperate for help with her two dogs. She has 2 dogs, a 4 yr. old doodle dog and a 7 yr old terrier - both rescue dogs.

This is one of the more interesting stories I’ve heard about dog aggression. A couple of years ago she was preparing to take her two dogs for a walk. She got them on their leashes, and headed out the door for a typical daily walk, not knowing disaster awaited. A neighbor had left a bag of dog treats on the front porch. The dogs were no sooner out the door when they both discovered the dog treats at the same time. Well, you guessed it. A major dog fight ensued and, as she so aptly explained, it was a war zone right there on my front porch.

there's not a sound more sweeter then your dog snoring with they sleep. Dreaming of juicy bones and chasing cars......

August 22, 2008

I have a client with a 7 month old Rottie who was doing some serious resource guarding of food bowls, couches, dog toys etc. The owners, who got him at 8 weeks felt that apparently since birth this dog had been very assertive.

The dog had had no structure in this home for 7 months straight, so, unfortunately both dog and family were on a one way journey down the wrong path of life with the potential for some serous harm.

It all came to a head when the wife tried to remove a bone from his space, the dog bit her. So, how did we fix it?

I explained to them how important structure and routine are to dogs, much the same way those two things are important to children. So we started the behavior modification.

When you are training your dog your choices are: compulsion training (hands on shaping the dog’s body to sit or down) or inducement training.

Either one is acceptable because if done correctly, compulsion training is not done harshly. Which method you choose pretty much depends on the dog and if your dog will not work for food then use positive based compulsion training or clicker training. I say, if the end result is the same, who cares?

Without getting into extended sits, downs, stays or “proofing” your dog around distractions, here’s how I help people start with treat training then, most importantly, progress to not using treats, just using hand signals and voice commands.

Ok, just so we're perfectly clear, this is Prada's blog (mine) NOT Lexi's blog! So here in Austin, TX where I live its been about 100 degrees for the past 3 weeks, We're talking sweltering and this was before June 1st! Its only going to get worse. One day a couple weeks ago, I really wanted to go outside when my mom was leaving for the gym, so instead of going to the gym, she decided I would walk with her. Well, we got around the loop once (probably about a mile) and she started to go again, well that's when I put my paw down! Was she kidding?? It's too hot to move and she wants to go again?! I stopped dead in my tracks and refused to move. Finally, she made the right choice and started toward home. On the way home, we cut through the pool area, and I decided to take a break and lay down on the top step, ahhhh nice cool water, I thought I might go for a swim, but since the apartment office was still open, mom wasn't sure that was such a great idea. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

I'm going blind in my left eye. So far it's temporary. I wake up and can only see white in one eye for about twenty minutes, then it passes. No one knew until I heard a sound, turned to my left and whacked my head. Hard. I'm more careful now.

Sam went mostly blind. Permanently. Well, first she went deaf. At first, no one knew. They just thought she was getting pig headed in her old age. She was twelve, and a lab, like me. When she responded to hand signals, but not words, they figured it out. I don't really know hand signals. I guess I'll be in trouble in five years.