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Re: [pyrnet] our new addition



Well, I don't know if this is the right way to go about things, but it has worked for me in the past with my Pyr.  Pyrs, as we all know, are very emotional animals.  When Bear (my white furry bundle of fluff) displays uncalled for behavior, and I see it, I tell him "bad" in a normal tone of voice, and then turn my back on him.  He immediately gets upset and starts begging for attention.  I gradually let him convince me that he is still my baby boy.  He doesn't repeat the behavior afterwards for a long time.  I don't know if this is the best way of doing things, and, since he is a rescue dog (got him at six months old) I don't know if this works on puppies.  He has never pottied in the house unless he was sick and there was no one home, but this method has worked on other things.
 
Brian
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:57 PM
Subject: [pyrnet] our new addition

Hi all,

Although I'm pretty much a lurker to this list, I do read each and every one of
your emails and just wanted to share our good news.  Last week we added a new
addition to our gang, Oliver who just turned 12 weeks.  It's been quite some
time since we've had a puppy in the house, (our others, Darby and Chloe are now
9) that I've forgotten how much fun and work it can be.  I added a link at the
bottom of the email if anyone wants to check out our puppy pictures.  Also, I
was wondering if anyone might have any suggestions to a little problem we've
come across.  For his first four days, he literally had no accidents at all. I
was thinking it was to good to be true and of course it was. He has since gotten
in the habit of right after coming in from outside peeing in the house.  I'm
sort of stumped because I know he has just went outside because I go out with
him each time, and most times ! it is only about 15 minutes after we've just
brought him in.  At night time he goes to sleep by about 10:00 and he goes all
the way until 6:30 before he lets us know he needs to get out of his crate and
go outside.  I am working from home right now so I am able to let him out every
hour during the day, so I really feel like he's getting out enough. He gets most
of the daytime hours outside his crate but I always have him with me in the same
room.  I am making water available to him at all times and was wondering if it's
ok to limit his water intake.  Thanks for any advice.

Sue G.
Darby, Chloe, & Oliver
Pennsylvania

http://www.geocities.com/darbynchloe/photopagestars.html