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Last edited by Joplin; 10-01-2008 at 04:33 PM.





STOP!!! Take her out to potty, put her back into her kennel, and ignore her cries. Does it suck? Yes. Will you feel like a heartless bitch? Yes. Will anyone who shares a house with you hate you? Yes. But right now you're conditioning her to expect to be played with, coddled to sleep, and to basically get what she wants when she wants it. This could also lead to seperation anxiety... a particularly destructive anxeity in a lot of dogs.
As far as potty time is concerned, it sounds like you're doing everything right as far as being concious about how long she can hold it. After eating and heavy play, she'll need to go. Lots of praise and a treat or two when she goes outside helps, too. Dogs won't crap where they eat or sleep... a friend of mine (who told me about this little technique) would feed his dogs in different parts of every room when he house trained his pups.
Right now, not only is it the perfect time to housebreak your dog, it's also the right time to teach her the chain of command and her position on the totem pole. Trust me, you don't want to be in my shoes right now... My husband and I became very relaxed with our dogs decipline. Hank, our 90 lb mutt, has regressed to some old food agression behaviors- mainly towards me... Changing behaviors in a two year old dog is much more difficult than establishing desirable behavior in a puppy.
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Last edited by SundayMorning; 10-03-2008 at 07:55 AM.
No puppy advice from me, but congrats! She sounds precious.
Chows are great! Crate training can be done with the help of Petsmart if you have one near you. There are alot of questions, and they are good with answers, they do obedience training as well in my state.
Never discipline and put her in the crate. Never feed and water and put her in the crate. And hun never give in and take her out when she cries to come out. Practice an hour a day with her in the crate (mainly when she goes down for a nap) and let her out ONLY when she has not cried.
Put toys and a favorite blanket in there, and take her out alot. As she gets older she will make this her "den" leave the door open as she starts to use it by herself..and she will! When you leave close her in and say a word like "Stay" and leave. When you come home don't make a fuss, get her riled up, act as though it's very normal for her to be in there. After you walk up and open the door, call her over and then pet/play with her. Never while she is in the crate.
They learn quick. But you must be firm. Use the word QUIET when she starts to cry. Dont give in. Chows are very clever.
Quick run down..Good luck!
Last edited by Pamela; 12-21-2007 at 10:00 AM. Reason: spelling errors
Sweet! She is good to go for training lessons!Four months, she will enjoy learning.
Elevators...lol i have seen a Poodle vomit everytime. Not any bigger dogs. At the hospital we have Space Coast Therapy dogs come in once weekly. The poor Poodle. All the others do very well. And chows are tough.
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I absolutely love chows. They are the coolest looking dogs EVER, and the cutest little fluffball pups.
Make sure you take your puppy to meet lots of other dogs, because chows can be very territorial.
Also, if she's about to burst and you've got no other options, try to rush her to the bathtub. At least it won't stain the carpet, but it'll be gross and of course you'll want to try to make it outside, especially for conditioning reaons.





sounds like she's ready to me... Sit and down is really easy to teach. Begin with praising her every time she just naturally sits or lies down. Now, when you start incorporating treats, hold a little peice of kibble in your hand above her head when she's standing. Slowly move your hand towards her back (still holding the treat above her out of her reach), 9 times out of ten, the dog will sit in order to follow the treat with thier eyes. When they do that, praise and give her the treat. If she tries to walk backwards, move away from her and repeat until she sits.
When she masters that, which will be pretty quickly, it'll be easy to transition her into down. After she sits, instead of moving the treat above and behind her, move the treat straight down to the floor in front of her. Again, the dogs natural instict is to follow the food so she'll start lying down to keep the treat at her eye level.





oopsy! I don't think you needed to read that again!
Last edited by Mia M; 12-21-2007 at 04:20 PM. Reason: posted same thing twice




Some amazing advice here
Only thing I will say is dont leave your pup/dog in a crate for too long. In the UK its common for people to crate a dog up and go to thier 9-5 job!!!!
Im not saying anyone here does though....
Joplin, if you want a free writen program on positive training drop me a PM and Ill email one to you. It covers all the basics; sit, stand,down,recall, loose lead walking and watch me.
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OOH! So much you can do with Kongs!
Freeze cheese or parsley sauce into them and make Pup-sicles
Puppies tummies are sensitive though, so maybe small Pup-sicles, LOL
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Haha, its like that first pic she is saying `What you pointing that thing at me for?`
Then the 2nd pic is `Ok, come on, tell me what it does, I bet you I can do better thing with it, let me show you how to chew it`
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OMG!!! I want to squish her! SOOOOO cute!



that is so cute it should be illegal!




omg!!! she's adorable!
great advice too, i need to listen to it myself.
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I love chows! They're like little bears! Great advice, everyone...wish we'd have listened to it ourselves a year and a half ago. We were so afraid that our dog was traumatized from being a stray/in the shelter, so we kind of overcompensated on the affection part. Which we both KNEW was the wrong thing to do but we did it anyway. (Yeah not gonna be parents for a good while.) Anyway sounds like you're starting off the right way!
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