13. "Dragging" the Poodle onto the PPW. 2 dogs.

Date: Nov 20, 2006
Owners Present: A father in his late forties. A teenaged daughter. It was nice to see the father spending some time to bring the teenaged daughter and puppy to the vet. I had a similar father-teenaged daughter just before this case. Also for vaccination.
As I had only 3 cases today, it was surprising and inspiring to see 2 cases with father-daughter relationship building.


Poodle, Male, 3 months old.

Toilet-Training Schedule:
1. First hour after eating: Put on PPW.
2. Move tray towards the bathroom step by step.
3. Take away 4 panels of fences if pee and poop on PPW.
4. On day 1, poops on PPW. No problem in this aspect.
5. On day 7, pees 2x on PPW. Pees anywhere on floor of the playpen.
If he is caught peeing outside the PPW, make him smell the pee, drag him towards the tray and put him on the tray, say "No, Bad Dog."
Yesterday (day 7) pees onto PPW 2 X.
6. Sleeps on PPW. Drag him out. Put on the towel bed.
7. Full-time monitoring.
8. Newspapers onto the pee pan. Sprayed commercial urine spray liquid. Not effective.
9. Uses puppy's own urine by not removing the soiled newsppaers on the pee pan. So, on the day 7, he pees onto the PPW, not outside.

"Intelligent puppy, compared to my 10-month-old Jack Russell" the man aid.
"I think you did not confine him or monitor him when he was young," I said. "You let the energetic short-legged Jack Russell with the right eye patch running everywhere in the house. So, he did not know where his toilet was!"

COMPARED TO JACK RUSSELL PUPPY.
Crate + Pee Pan in the living area.
Likes to shred newspapers, so no more newspapers.
Dragged to the bathroom aftere he has peed on the wrong places.
After 3 months, the puppy goes to the bathroom floor to eliminate.

"So, the crate method takes a longer time to toilet-train the puppy", he concluded.

"Did you think of positioning the crate inside the bathroom?" I asked.
"No," he said.
Nobody was at home to train this Jack Russell.

DETTOL floor cleaner useful because the dog does not pee on same spot. But he finds another spot.

COMPETITIVE BARKING.
Both dogs confined inside the crate or playpen. If not, one will bark a lot.


ADVICES - NO USE NOW.

1. For Jack Russell, crate inside bathroom for at least 2 weeks. Put up a baby gate so puppy can see people.

2. Jack Russel urine marks at home now because of the new puppy.

3. In one incident, the Jack Russell growled under the sofa, when the owner sat on the sofa with the poodle. The owner had viewed "Dog Whisperer" on TV. A very good show. He adopted the show's advice. Gave his hand to the Jack Russell to bite. The dog bit his hand. I shivered as I looked at the red bite marks and scratches on his hand.

After biting, he turned the dog sideways, pressed him down for 10 seconds. The dog became calmer and quiet. The dog licked him, accepting him as leader of the pack.

The dog no longer was aggressive and let him scratched his belly. This was what the "Dog Whisperer" advised. To show the aggressive dog that the owner is not frightened of him. What a brave man, I thought.

"If I were you, I would wear a leather glove and let the Jack Russell bite it." I said. "I cannot bear the pain of being bitten!"











PET SHOP ADVICES:
Pet shop operator recommends a Pee Pan with Wire Flooring (PPW) rather than the usual crate with pee pan.

Surround the puppy with 4 panels of Playpen.

Compared to his 10-month-old Jack Russell, he took 3 months to train him to use the bathroom floor tiles as toilet location.

"The reason being that the crate was in the living room, I said. "The bathroom was far away." So, he had dragged the Jack Russell every time to the bathroom, saying "Not here..". The puppy learned after a much longer time.