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Saturday, September 16, 2006

394. A need for the services of the SGEM? Spiteful, vengeful pup?

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore


"He will sprint to the far side of the two beds," the lady owner of the Yorkshire Terrier said. "Whenever he pees on the wrong location."



To the puppy, the owner is a terror. He sees the lady's face. Dark, eyes dilated, eye brows furrowed, voice high pitched. Right hand raised. He would get a spanking.

To the owner, the puppy is vengeful. Did not want to go to the newspapers on the kitchen floor. Purposely pee outside the restricted zone onto the bedroom parquet floor, the living area and everywhere except the designated area. Newspapers shredded to pieces, peeing and pooping onto the kitchen floor. Making her clean up after coming back from a 12-hour work day.



Is this situation a case for the the SGEM (Speak Good English Movement)? Is the owner not speaking good grammatical English so that the puppy understands?

Was there clear communication? There was body language communication. The puppy saw an unhappy face and raised hand. So, his heart beat fastest and he dashed under the furthest corner of the bed to avoid a spanking.

It was like a duck (quack quack) communicating to the hen (cluck cluck).

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

393* Follow up: Noise nuisance Jack Russell barks when stools are passed. Paper-trained 4 weeks.

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

FOLLOW UP Sep 11, 2006

Paper-trained in 4 weeks.

lst day - bought from home breeder. Home breeder uses crate plus pee pan. Not newspaper.

lst day - playpen + newspaper 100% on floor in the kitchen.
Barking at night. Sleep alone.
Sleep near puppy for first few days.
Then radio switched on. Barked less.
Stop barking at day 7.



VERY SMART. Barks after pooping to want owner to clear stools. Eats at 7 am and 6 pm. Poop 2 x/day, immediately after eating. Feed bowl taken away after eating. Eats within 10 minutes.


Spanking on back if accidents.
Treats and praises if eliminates properly.
Paper-trained in around 4 weeks.
No accidents unless room door is locked, can't go to newspapers in the playpen.

Goes to friend's place. Used newspaper. This confirmed 100% paper trained successfully.




Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
First reported as Case No. 353

A CASE OF NOISE NUISANCE
http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/353-noise-nuisance-7-week-old-jack.html

"The puppy is very intelligent," the lady with sparse hair on top of her head and most likely to be her sixties said, "When I say 'Koon Koon', the puppy just sleep immediately." 'Koon Koon" means 'sleep' in Hokkien Chinese dialect.

A tall dark brown skinned thin man in his early twenties was with the mother. "You are still doing National Service?" I asked him as he was sun-burnt. Like those dark brown bitter chocolate.



"No," the young man in black spectacle frames said. "I am working in a bank." He slept near the puppy in the living area for the past days but the puppy would whine and bark at 1 am and 4 am. How to solve this problem?

"We live in the older 3- and 4-room HDB apartments," the mother said. "The walls are thin and neighbours will not be happy. This puppy is so alert that he will wake up immediately and sleeps little." The puppy perked up his ears. I knew what she meant about the thin walls and the noise nuisance of barking dogs.

Now, what is the solution?

"Bring the puppy to the bedroom at night," I said. "He missed the contact and warmth of his siblings and mother as he was separated physically after being purchased from the home breeder. He might want body contact?" I speculated.



It is also possible that night shift workers amongst the neighbours might have come home. The alert Jack Russell must have tried to warn the owners?


Sep 16, 2006 REVIEW OF THIS CASE.

In the first week, many puppies barked.

In this case, the Jack Russell barked at 1 am and 4 am. He was asking the owner to change his soiled newspapers so that he could have a clean den.

Not many first-time owners are aware of this communication and considers the puppy a noise nuisance, disturbing the neighbours in the apartment building. Some first-time owners have discovered this fact and changing soiled newspapers solved the noise nuisance problem.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

392. 6 weeks of toilet-training the Cocker Spaniel

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Sunday Sep 10, 2006 10.11 am
Bishan Community Library

This is a report on how an owner house-train his female cocker spaniel, living in his house, for the past 6 weeks. She is 20 months old at the time of writing.

FIRST WEEK.
Kitchen and living area. Commercial urine spray onto newspapers in the kitchen. She peed on newspapers sometimes. Pooped anywhere.

SECOND WEEK.
The puppy has a room on level 2 for sleeping. She would go downstairs to the toilet to pee. A few areas in the living area would also be soiled. Seldom pee and poop upstairs.

SIXTH WEEK.
Able to hold urine overnight. Rushed to the garden in the morning to eliminate. If inside the house, will eliminate in a few areas in the living area.

Never paper-trained. Must mop the living area (toilet area) with Dettol.

No choice but to shut her inside the bathroom and shut the door when the owner works and after she eliminated in the garden after breakfast. The worry is that the puppy was dirty when the owner came home, stepping on stools and urine.

Not allowed into the garden unsupervised because she chewed everything.

SUGGESTIONS

1. A baby gate at the bathroom door so that the puppy will not feel isolated.
2. Newspapers 100%. Urine smell.
Or just the tiled floor of the bathroom as her toilet and towel as sleeping area during daytime.
3. Vinegar:water 1:2 to neutralise living areas.
4. If the puppy can hold the urine, wait for owner to come home to let her out into the garden. But this could be 12 hours later as owner works long hours.

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