[nagdu] Do's and Don't's

[Ioana Gandrabur]

HI all,

Fascinating topic!

My dog never had accidents in the house except at night when he had to
vomit. but he also hardly lets me know if he has to go. If I forget he can
wait forever and I feel terrible when I remember. The most he does is comes
and sits next to me. No wining or nudging or panting. He is too discrete!

as for furniture we had the funniest thing happening a few weeks ago. He is
not allowed on furniture except one bed in our tv room and only if we invite
him up. However his pup raiser told us that while he was snot allowed on
their sofa she had this ritual of putting a blanket on top of her and then
he would climb on her and go to sleep. I thought this was very cute when he
was a puppy but forgot about it completely until a few days ago my husband
was lying on the couch and asked me for a blanket because he was chilly.
Adrian started getting very interested in the proceedings, almost helping me
to put it on my husband. When it was ready he jumped all paws in the air and
landed on top of him. We had to laugh so hard to see his puppy habits
showing up after all this time but I must admit we were just a bit scared to
se him rocketing in the air with his 80 pounds.

Basically we would let him on furniture when we invite him and not when he
decides.

All the best to you people and your dogs and other animals.

Ioana

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
Behalf Of Katrin Andberg
Sent: June 1, 2009 4:37 PM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Do's and Don't's


I train my dogs to let me know when they have to go out to use the bathroom
and also to go on command when I tell them to.  So during the day if I get
super involved in doing work and don't realize that one or the other
probably needs to go out, then they start to bug me until I get up and take
them out.  I guess it just transferred over to the nighttime, it's not
something I set out to teach them, to wake me up in the middle of the night
to go out if they are sick, it's something they all do and something I
assumed most well house trained dogs did.  And no I don't have an outside
door near my bedroom, I have to get up and walk down the hall, through the
dining area, through the kitchen to the back door.  If they are sick and I
open the bedroom door, the dog rushes to the back door, waits for me to get
there and open it and is sick outside.  The only time accidents happen
inside is if I'm not home and the dog is crated and sick.



Katrin & James



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