In-Home Pet Sitting & Dog Walking
Homeward Bound Training
Our training program is a recipe for success.
Ten Steps for a Happy Homecoming
So you've searched the world over and found the best of the best, now what? You can hardly wait to bring your beautiful little fur baby home and introduce the sweet creature to the new digs, and its all fun and games but later that night there's crying and the fur baby won't sleep, just plain restless and uncooperative. What do you do, what are your options. Like most of us the first thing we might do is bring this little creature into our rooms and give him a space on the bed. But wait, is this a good idea, has potty training been established, will there be some unwanted business happening while you sleep the night away? Sure it's worth the risk, the crying stopped and you finally drifted off to sleep. Heaven? Well maybe but not so fast.
Before you step in the "don'ts" I'm going to explain the "do's" of establishing boundaries for the newest addition to your family.
Step one, Do give fresh water. As soon as you walk in the door take your pup to the predesignated drinking hole. All the water your fur baby can drink. Water is the elixir of the animal kingdom without it the drive to find it is overpowering, so let you fur baby know that thirst is a think of the past.
Step two, a tiny treat would be nice.
Step three, show your pup to his new bed. Yup, right away before playtime, din din or any other activity. Let the young one cool his or her jets in a well ventilated crate. Dress it up with a blanket if you like or an ordinary bath towel. Remind yourself that you'll be washing that item once or twice per week depending on what gets tracked back inside the house from outside the house.
Step four, a tiny treat would be nice.
Stay tuned. More to follow.
So a lot of people ask me how I get my dog to listen, my first response is patience. Lots of patience.
My second response is sound. Although we as humans have the greatest command over the spoken language, animals have a language all to themselves. The trick is to make your words or sounds mean something to them.
Here's an example: a sit command can be spoken in any of the 7099* known living languages known to man or it could be a specific sound like a click or a whistle. As long as the word or sound remains the same for the sit command the dog will perform the action. Just for fun try using a different word for sit and see what happens.
Blue here knows sit in several different languages including a hand motion that means: sit.