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Saturday, January 21, 2006

246. Shih Tzu beaten a lot but still not toilet trained. Give to animal shelter?

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Fortunate to find a new home and a young lady owner who surfed the internet for toilet-training info.

Paper-trained in 3 weeks using the leash method plus verbal cues and praises during the monitoring of "accidents" when she returned home from work.

She said, "Guilty look" when the dog had "accidents." Actually, the dog is afraid of being beaten. It was a look of fear as she had numerous beatings by the domestic worker of the first owner.

She commented, "weird habit, she will not pee or poop if the newspapers are full (soiled). Must replace the papers or she will eliminate outside the papers on the floor tiles.

Dog given 2 sheets of newspapers on kitchen floor. Had been leashed for past 3 weeks at night in case she still had ticks.

I assured that no ticks and probably need not be leashed. Observe and give more newspapers at night.

First day - mess up whole apartment. Hides in a corner (guilty look but actually the dog is frightened of being beaten up for having accidents. This was misinterpreted by new owner as guilty look).

Leashed - OK.
Sleep by herself on a bed in the kitchen. Ignored her barking and whining.
Water bowl.
Seldom shreds newspapers. Parents at home but mum afraid of dogs.
Free feeding but finished food within 15 minutes. Feed twice per day.

Slight Separation anxiety. Barks when owner/family leaves home.

A well-informed new dog owner. The internet was very useful for her toilet training education, one source includes this blog.


SCABIES



Saw numerous nodules on ear flap, both ears. Could be recovering from scabies or had residual scabies mites.

Dog scratches ears vigorously. Owner thought it was "normal" or comical. Asked her to come back next week if condition persist. Dog had 3rd vaccination today.

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