You are so right about the newspaper. When my daughter with the brain tumor went into a nursing home I took her pug and my daughter had trained her on newspaper inside her apartment. It took me two months to get that dog to go outside to the bathroom. Pups are smart dogs and I finally trained her. If you do the same thing over and over again and be consistent it pays off. You are also right about dachshunds being smart and will try and train you instead of you training them. Mine is going through the barking stage at three. At nightime she knows she gets a cookie. All I have to say is lets go out to potty and then you will get your cookie and she will start barking and I have a hard time shutting her up. At 5pm sharp I don't know how she knows it's 5pm but she does and no matter where I am in the house she starts barking for me to fix her dinner. First I have to rub her tummy for about two minutes and then off I go to fix her dinner. I guess I am not fast enough and she will start barking to tell me to hurry up. She loves the Wellness Core Ocean and then I put a tablespoon of Wellness Salmon and a tablespoon of dannon yogurt and pierce a Omega 3 cap over her kibble. Both my dogs love their food. Barbara --- On Sat, 4/23/11, Nancy Foster <cvfoster2000@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Nancy Foster <cvfoster2000@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: <Dachsie World> Potty training
To: Dachsie_World@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 10:42 PM
absolutely. Mine can spell: she knows W A L K; she knows C H I C K E N; obviously she knows G O. That's all I can think of, but there may be more. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ladybug <ladybugcreations@charter.net> wrote: I have rescued many doxies over the years, some were not house broken when I got them from shelters or strays that were found, but with a little bit of work on my part, 75% of the time within a week I can usually have most of them house broken. It does take time and you really have to work at it, but even an older doxie can be taught to go outside. Now I'm not saying 100% all the time (although my present ones are just that.) because a snow storm or really bad storm will bring on an emergency...or some simply refuse to get their paws wet or cold. This is a smart breed, like I said, they were breed to think for themselves in order to fight badgers and win. So unless you become the alpha leader and teach them the rules, they will teach and train you to what they prefer instead. When I raised pups, I use to warn new owners that the pup had already been started to be trained to go outside and not to use puppy and never to use them or newspapers, otherwise the dog will go in the house. I still firmly believe in it after over 50 years of having dachshunds and never having one that was not house broken.
Now about a doxie getting even, well that's another story <grin>. Never promise one something and not deliver, they will get even it you don't keep your word. You have to give this breed credit, they learn our language quite well and develop quite a vocabulary for such a small dog. The normal dog commands are a drop in a bucket to the words a doxie learns to understands and knows only too well. When someone states their doxie listens to them and they know the dog understands....they are more right then they realize. -- Nancy P. Foster NBCT ALA ELA 2002 Retired English teacher
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