Take the puppy pad outside. If the dog is conditioned to go only on the pad, she should do it when the pad is outside. Once you condition her to go on the pad outside, and build an association on going in that spot, you can gradually delete the pad.An observation made at 5:24AM today- The nice thing about training a pup to use "puppy pads" is that they tend to use it and not go all over the house. The bad thing about using "puppy pads" is that they think they should go in the house!!!!! One poodle is being a real bear to break the habit with. Take her out when she starts her "potty dance", walk her around, wait, walk her, wait, wait some more, walk, wait, wait, wait, finally figure it was a false alarm. Bring her back in, turn your back, and 2 1/2 seconds later she's peeing on the puppy pad!
so waht ya doin today?
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
We tried that. The wind took the pads, I'm still picking up pieces! She'll get it eventually. I'm just not sure if it will be before or after I lose my mind!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Beautiful day here! Got the Bobcat back together, everything works, or at least it works as good as it did before I busted it! Also got the Massey Ferguson 135 issue solved. Had and awful clunking in the tranny area and the hydraulics weren't working right. I'd managed to score a very hard to find but incredibly detailed MF repair CD by a guy called "Big Dean" who passed some years back. After going through Deans thoughts and ideas I started at his "square one"- Change the hydraulic fluid. There is absolutely no reason I can think of that just a simple fluid change should have stopped the clunking sound in a few seconds and gotten the hydraulics working again with in a couple minutes. Must have been some varnish or crud in the old fluid, which looked brand new to me, that was making a valve stick or something. That clunking could have been a relief valve unloading multiple times a minute. All I know is that was a simple fix and now I know what to listen for. Wasn't exactly cheap since it took 7 gallons of hy-tran, but it's sure better than splitting the tractor to fix that "bad throwout bearing" I thought I had!!!
Wife and I are both still feeling the after effects of what ever that creeping crud we got was. She got it worse than I did as usual. It's funny, but whenever I get a stomach bug I always crave tomato soup!
Wife and I are both still feeling the after effects of what ever that creeping crud we got was. She got it worse than I did as usual. It's funny, but whenever I get a stomach bug I always crave tomato soup!
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Never had an issue house breaking a puppy. Last two, including this one was well trained in under two weeks. If they potty in the house they get their nose rubbed in it, taken outside and tied up. When they potty outside they get a generous helping of cookies and a bunch of loving. Doesn't take long for them to figure out that cookies are much better than your nose rubbed in it
oscarflytyer
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Ian peeing on the parade!
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Excepting two doors, the below the counter cabinet doors and drawers are painted, and with two coats, at that. Home Depot's most expensive paint that is advertized as one-coat application is expensive but is not a one-coat a one-coat paint.
Jeff delivered seven sets of drawer rollers and they are installed. An eighth drawer had the same kind of roller, so didn't bother replacing it.
Man, oh, man, how did I ever do stuff without a right-angle drill adapter? I bought a Milwaukee to go along with the Milwaukee drill and impact drill, but hadn't an opportunity to use it till this afternoon, when I drilled pilot holes and installed the screws for the cabinet drawer rollers. Talk about spiffy! If I never have the need of it again, today's 15 minutes of use proved it may be the best $20 I've ever spent.
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Jeff delivered seven sets of drawer rollers and they are installed. An eighth drawer had the same kind of roller, so didn't bother replacing it.
Man, oh, man, how did I ever do stuff without a right-angle drill adapter? I bought a Milwaukee to go along with the Milwaukee drill and impact drill, but hadn't an opportunity to use it till this afternoon, when I drilled pilot holes and installed the screws for the cabinet drawer rollers. Talk about spiffy! If I never have the need of it again, today's 15 minutes of use proved it may be the best $20 I've ever spent.
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fiver
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went a little bit overboard today.
i went out and dug a nice hole down through about 7 layers of gravel and installed the mail box.
then i put my dead cow head and rock decorations around it.
that went okay, and i'd usually call it a day, but it was only like 58* so i figured i could get a bit more done before it started raining.
went and got the big digging bar out and the spade for changing tires and started removing the broken chunks of cement down by the garage.
i had to go get a couple more bags of cement, and got the kids out there to move the bags from the shed to the front i could cement the hole back in.
right when we dumped the first half of the cement in the hole it started raining,,, well too late to stop now,, keep going.
yeah that's hail never mind it.
just before I get all the cement in the hole it starts raining again, only now it's hard enough to actually do something,, you know, like run off the roof right where i just got the cement in place.
i floated it out just to kind of help with the run off, i finally went and got the chunk of rain gutter i use to slide WW's into the melt to catch and divert the rain.
got it all in place and it stopped raining.
well lets move those chunks of cement over around the mail box i'll flip them and dig them in a little then pour cement into all the cracks and stuff then square it all up on the edges.
that's when things went wrong and i tore my back muscles [again] trying to push over a 2'x3'x4" chunk into place.
oh well, i think they are coming tomorrow to do the asphalt in everyone's yards, and then the final paving of the street mon-tuesday.
i still need to chainsaw a couple of RR ties and take out the rest of them and move everything over a couple of feet so i have a place to put stuff off the street again.
i don't know how this works.
they come 'improve' the street, and i gotta spend 2500-3000 dollars to put it all back together again.
i went out and dug a nice hole down through about 7 layers of gravel and installed the mail box.
then i put my dead cow head and rock decorations around it.
that went okay, and i'd usually call it a day, but it was only like 58* so i figured i could get a bit more done before it started raining.
went and got the big digging bar out and the spade for changing tires and started removing the broken chunks of cement down by the garage.
i had to go get a couple more bags of cement, and got the kids out there to move the bags from the shed to the front i could cement the hole back in.
right when we dumped the first half of the cement in the hole it started raining,,, well too late to stop now,, keep going.
yeah that's hail never mind it.
just before I get all the cement in the hole it starts raining again, only now it's hard enough to actually do something,, you know, like run off the roof right where i just got the cement in place.
i floated it out just to kind of help with the run off, i finally went and got the chunk of rain gutter i use to slide WW's into the melt to catch and divert the rain.
got it all in place and it stopped raining.
well lets move those chunks of cement over around the mail box i'll flip them and dig them in a little then pour cement into all the cracks and stuff then square it all up on the edges.
that's when things went wrong and i tore my back muscles [again] trying to push over a 2'x3'x4" chunk into place.
oh well, i think they are coming tomorrow to do the asphalt in everyone's yards, and then the final paving of the street mon-tuesday.
i still need to chainsaw a couple of RR ties and take out the rest of them and move everything over a couple of feet so i have a place to put stuff off the street again.
i don't know how this works.
they come 'improve' the street, and i gotta spend 2500-3000 dollars to put it all back together again.
Tom
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40 years ago we had a puppy in the truck that we started out on newspaper on the doghouse (engine cover in a cab over). She was fully trained, but I wouldn't get up for her one morning. Got up to find the road atlas on the doghouse with a pile on it. It was open to the center pages, which just happened to be the NYC/NJ metropolitan map. I guess she found it appropriate to crap on the crappiest location.
CWLONGSHOT
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100%!!! Last few have NEVER pooped in house!! Dog training is really OWNER training. Eat= outside shortly after. Walks at SAME TIMES = poops OUTSIDE!
You can keep the Cats Ian!!
CW
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
WHAT?!!!!!!!! Rub a dogs nose in urine!!!!!!! Apparently you have not gone over to the "woke" side of dog training! SWMBO has made it clear that such methods are right up there with beating the dog with a stick. I only exaggerate a small amount. I'm supposed to use positive re-enforcement at all times. We don't want to screw up the dogs self esteem or anything, that's what Ceasar and all the Dog Gods on TV say anyway.
All kidding aside, this dog is stubborn. And when you take her out her attention span is measured in nano-seconds. She completely forgets, or simply doesn't care that she was doing her potty dance 10 seconds ago. Her litter mate figured it out. The Goldens figured it out. She'll give up and relent eventually.
This is dog# 40 something for us. There are 11 dogs at the house and 2 in the barn/field. Not my first rodeo, just another stubborn one to add to the list.
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Amen! I didn't know about them until a couple years back working on our church. Went right out and bought one soon as I could. It's like owning a right angle, close quarters drill- you don't need it all the time, but when you do nothing else will take it's place!Excepting two doors, the below the counter cabinet doors and drawers are painted, and with two coats, at that. Home Depot's most expensive paint that is advertized as one-coat application is expensive but is not a one-coat a one-coat paint.
Jeff delivered seven sets of drawer rollers and they are installed. An eighth drawer had the same kind of roller, so didn't bother replacing it.
Man, oh, man, how did I ever do stuff without a right-angle drill adapter? I bought a Milwaukee to go along with the Milwaukee drill and impact drill, but hadn't an opportunity to use it till this afternoon, when I drilled pilot holes and installed the screws for the cabinet drawer rollers. Talk about spiffy! If I never have the need of it again, today's 15 minutes of use proved it may be the best $20 I've ever spent.
SHOCKWAVE™ Right Angle Adapter | Milwaukee Tool
The MILWAUKEE® SHOCKWAVE™ Impact Right Angle Adapter is designed for impact drivers and drill drivers and access in tight spaces
One coat paint- The very, very best paint I ever used was a Dutch Boy product that covered like magic, left no brush marks, was scrubable and that held it's color like it was brand new. I've never seen that paint again, anywhere. I don't even know if Dutch Boy paints are still produced and I doubt National Lead company is still making it, if NL even exists. The "good stuff" in Dutch Boy paints was mined about 40 miles north of where I grew up and was a titanium type product.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Another gorgeous day on tap. Hope to move dirt. Also need to get the little JD 420 crawler belly pan off so I can start getting the piston/rings replaced- assuming that's what actually busted. Winter is coming and I will NEED that machine very soon. Actually, I needed it several times this summer, but it wasn't an emergency so it got put off.
My granddaughter just signed our 16-year-old great granddaughter up for young guns.
Young Guns is a shotgun shooting club.
She is one of the few girls shooting.
The boys are all shooting semi-autos while Kylis is shooting a 870 Wing Master.
They were being macho young men and laughing about her shooting a pump gun.
That all stopped when she soundly out shot them at trap.
They let her borrow a semi-auto to shot skeet.
She didn`t do so well at skeet.
I taught her to shoot trap with my Trius trap thrower.
We will have to work on more cross shots.
I have been spending most of my time planting a big mongo garlic patch.
Deer season opens tomorrow.
I will be smoking a tri tip and some elk ribs for our weekly family dinner tonight.
Young Guns is a shotgun shooting club.
She is one of the few girls shooting.
The boys are all shooting semi-autos while Kylis is shooting a 870 Wing Master.
They were being macho young men and laughing about her shooting a pump gun.
That all stopped when she soundly out shot them at trap.
They let her borrow a semi-auto to shot skeet.
She didn`t do so well at skeet.
I taught her to shoot trap with my Trius trap thrower.
We will have to work on more cross shots.
I have been spending most of my time planting a big mongo garlic patch.
Deer season opens tomorrow.
I will be smoking a tri tip and some elk ribs for our weekly family dinner tonight.
Snakeoil
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Never used puppy pads. Did not exist when I was a kid. Newspapers on the floor. Then one day, you remove the newspapers and take the pup outside and let him/her do their thing. You love them up big time when they do. Another tip is to get them into a routine. As soon as you wake them up in the morning, take them out and let them go. Same thing, make a big deal out of going outside. Positive reinforcement.
Another thing that will work against you in training a dog is if another dog has peed or pooped in the house. The pup will smell that and top it. When you get a new pup, you need to get a black light and do a thorough search of your house at night to find any errant areas where a previous dog may have gone. Then hit that spot with Nilodor or similar pet odor neutralizer. We inherited a dog from my Mom when she passed. What we did not know is the little bugger was marking the house in discrete areas. He would tell us when he had to go out and never had an accident in the house. But when we weren't looking the little bugger was squirting all over the place. When we got a new pup after he passed, I did the black light thing and our house looked like a crime scene. We spent hours checking every nook and cranny and neutralizing those spots. It paid off. The new pup never did any topping off once he was house broken. Any accident he had was done always in the same place and it was because he told me he had to go out and I did not take him immediately. I always thought he was trying to tell me to pay better attention because he'd always take a dump in my bedroom in the middle of the floor. He was a funny dog. If I let him out and he did not have to go, he would not go. So, if he had to go 10 minutes later, I'd think he just wanted attention. Nope. Another deuce in the bedroom. I finally figured it out and the accidents stopped. He also figured it out that I was not bringing him back in until he took a dump. Still miss that little guy. Always knew he was smarter than me.