Gator
Uncledaddy
'cause they look like pinecones, which were originally called pineapples.
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'cause they look like pinecones, which were originally called pineapples.
Volkodav
Dad****er
that just makes shit 100x more confusing
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Amiir
Guest
That's a noble project. I wish you luck
Volkodav
Dad****er
I dog-sat two dogs around New Years for a friend. Both were unfixed and untrained and were absolute hell.
The owners method of "house-training" was to let the dogs outside.... and if anybody knows anything about house-training, this is the exact fucking opposite of what you should do. By using this "method" of house-training, they've allowed it so that the male had a complete lack of bladder-control. He'd never been forced to hold his piss and so he would piss at the slightest provocation or bit of excitement.
The correct method would be to routinely bring the dog outside on leash and reward him for pissing outside.. you don't wait until he pisses inside the house, scold him, and throw him outside.
The owners work all day at a restaurant and so they're not home during most of the day...
This was all important to mention because the next bit of info sent me into a rage today.
On the last day I was dog-sitting, I looked out the window and saw the male dog mounting the female. The female was having none of it but I could tell that she was likely going to be in heat soon. I told the owners "keep those dogs seperated until you fix them or they'll breed" and they agreed that they were going to get one of them fixed.
My sister texts me today saying she thinks the female is pregnant.
There are only two outcomes to this scenario:
1. They'll have a bunch of untrained, unhousetrained puppies running around in a house with two larger dogs. The dam is okay and better trained than the sire.. the sire is untrained and not house-trained. He's also food-aggressive. They'll probably keep a puppy or two and sell the rest, encouraging them to breed again. People will wind up with unstable, untrained, overpriced, mutt puppies.
2. They dump the litter at the shelter and people will wind up with unstable, untrained, overpriced, mutt puppies. They neglect to fix one of the dogs and they breed again, the cycle continues.
I'll be getting a call asking for advice on how to train the puppies and.. honestly? There's nothing I can suggest.
You can't house-train puppies if nobody is home 12hrs per day.
The owners method of "house-training" was to let the dogs outside.... and if anybody knows anything about house-training, this is the exact fucking opposite of what you should do. By using this "method" of house-training, they've allowed it so that the male had a complete lack of bladder-control. He'd never been forced to hold his piss and so he would piss at the slightest provocation or bit of excitement.
The correct method would be to routinely bring the dog outside on leash and reward him for pissing outside.. you don't wait until he pisses inside the house, scold him, and throw him outside.
The owners work all day at a restaurant and so they're not home during most of the day...
This was all important to mention because the next bit of info sent me into a rage today.
On the last day I was dog-sitting, I looked out the window and saw the male dog mounting the female. The female was having none of it but I could tell that she was likely going to be in heat soon. I told the owners "keep those dogs seperated until you fix them or they'll breed" and they agreed that they were going to get one of them fixed.
My sister texts me today saying she thinks the female is pregnant.
There are only two outcomes to this scenario:
1. They'll have a bunch of untrained, unhousetrained puppies running around in a house with two larger dogs. The dam is okay and better trained than the sire.. the sire is untrained and not house-trained. He's also food-aggressive. They'll probably keep a puppy or two and sell the rest, encouraging them to breed again. People will wind up with unstable, untrained, overpriced, mutt puppies.
2. They dump the litter at the shelter and people will wind up with unstable, untrained, overpriced, mutt puppies. They neglect to fix one of the dogs and they breed again, the cycle continues.
I'll be getting a call asking for advice on how to train the puppies and.. honestly? There's nothing I can suggest.
You can't house-train puppies if nobody is home 12hrs per day.
jtrekkie
Feathered
That could be interpreted a number of ways. I am simultaneously curious and afraid.
Naesaki
JRPG Fanatic
My Dog learned the habit to come up to me and my parents, tilt her head a certain way so we know to follow her and then she leads us to the door into the background so she can go pee. Or if we don't notice the signs, she'll continually walk up to us and then leave the room for 5 seconds, come back and repeat until we get the idea she wants to go outside.
She'll never cry or bark to be let outside, and when she wants to come back in she'll just sit patiently at the door staring through the glass, though she will sometimes bark to say "Oi Humans let me the bloody hell back in!" if we take to long xD
Naesaki
JRPG Fanatic
I think it helped that we got my dog at 5months old from a dog rescue center, so she had already been trained to some degree, we just made it stick.
Gator
Uncledaddy
why are people like this allowed to have dogs
ThePumu
Opening file: Redemption.exe/
I'll compromise.
Pawnds.
jtrekkie
Feathered
A friend of mine tied a bell on the doorknob and trained her dog to ring it and sit down by the door when she needed outside.
Alexxx-Returns
The Sergal that Didn't Vore
Back when we had a door with a cat-flap, our dog would paw on the cat-flap, making it rattle, to let us know she wanted to go out ^.^
Thing which annoys me is she always gets left outside after she's been. She doesn't take long to pee outside, but parents always let her out, and get back to what they were doing, and she has to bark to let them know she wants to come back in. I used to let her in when she started barking, but I don't anymore because that's enabling my parents' behaviour. If I let her out, I stay by the door until she's done.
On another note, all the French I know, I know from Pokemon fan fiction.
Misomie
Lazy Artist
That reminds me of housetraining my pup. It was taking forever to kick in. This confused me because I was usin the leash, crate, and reward method. Turns out my sister's dog pees in the house when he doesn't want to go out into the cold. I can put her dog out for several minutes and then let him in only for him to pee inside. Sucker would hold it. Anyways, he still does this. I know because my dog tried to pee on my mom's Christmas tree twice vs. the never attempting on everyone else's. Trying to get your dog to behave when another (much older) dog doesn't is a hassle. XP
Samandriel Morningstar
The Morningstar
Please tell me these are your private pair of paws.
Ieono
Uberaffe
I doubt you're big enough for that.
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