On 21/7/06 12:18, in article
, "La Puce"
wrote:


Tugger wrote:
What we do is have a "word" that is associated with doing something naughty
like chewing anything - we use a sharp "Ah Ah" ... and it is currently in
use a lot with two five week old Jack Russell puppies ... they get used to
it and it soon works. You just have to be consistent with the "word" and
it's use - never needed to touch them at all. Trained the pups' mother this
way when she was a pup too ...

This reminds me ... with Matilda, my 8 years old dog, we found
ourselves desperate as she, at 14 months old, kept peeing in the
landing, or worse on our shoes as we arrived home. snip
When we
come home from work we used to say as we opened the door "have you been
a good girl?" and then Matilda peeing either whilst we opened the door
or on our shoes as we greeted her. She took the 'been' word as a cue
for peeing.

Simple when you know )

Sometimes they do that from excitement, too. One of my old dachies used to
pee whenever people he really liked arrived at the house, so we had to make
sure he got over his delight outside. We called it "Dudley's stress
incontinence".
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Sacha
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South Devon
(email address on website)