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    Quote Originally Posted by Joplin View Post
    I woke up at 3am to take her potty she whined and barked and so I gave in and layed on the floor with her. She promptly passed out the second I got on the floor after barking for 10 min in te kennel. I had even played with her after I took her out to try to make her sleepy. What do I do?
    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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    No puppy advice from me, but congrats! She sounds precious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joplin View Post
    ...now what? She's a full blood Chow Chow, I think about 4 months old (but shes already really big, huge compared to the rest of the litter). She's gorgeous, and a sweetheart! I'm trying to kennel train her but I've never done this before. When I put her in when everyone went to bed she was fine and went to sleep (10pm), but after I woke up at 3am to take her potty she whined and barked and so I gave in and layed on the floor with her. She promptly passed out the second I got on the floor after barking for 10 min in te kennel. I had even played with her after I took her out to try to make her sleepy. What do I do?

    I heard for every month they can hold their pee for an hour (so she'd be okay for 4 hours max). I just don't want her to start peeing/pooping every where because she's being sooo good about it right now and I live on the 3rd floor of an apartment building so I can't really rush to put her out in any means. Help!

    I love her though! I've wanted a chow for 6 months and finally got her YAY!! I'll post a pic later
    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!
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    Thanks girls! Yha...my boyfriend called me a pansy for giving in to her, but ya'll are right I've just got to let her whine.

    I just took her out to the park and there was this huge thick grass (bigger than her) and she was trying to jump through it (so cute!) and now she's wiped. I put her in her crate and she's sleeping so all is well. She even went in there and laid down when I was on my lap top on the floor, all by herself.

    She is VERY clever. How old do you think they need to be before they are old enough to be trained, simple sit, lay down.

    I've never thought about this but how weird must elevators be for dogs? they walk in a room and then walk out and its all different. Neveah gets so confused, its adorable!

    Anyways enough of my puppy gushing, I'm just super excited!
    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.

    I LOVE THEM!!!!

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    PICSPICSPICSPICS

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joplin View Post

    She is VERY clever. How old do you think they need to be before they are old enough to be trained, simple sit, lay down.
    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.

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    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

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    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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    zzzzomg!! ::snuggle::

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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!

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    that is so cute it should be illegal!


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    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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