Bananas
09-06-2008, 05:33 PM
I have heard many time that you need to immediately interact with your dog after an indoor accident. If you yell at them later than that, they won't have a clue what you are upset about.
Hogwash!
Bananas always was sent to his doggie timeout by being told to "go on the paper." Sit. Stay. Visitors would look at us like we lost our marbles as the dog would strut to the back door and sit on the rug. But when being paper trained as puppies, our dogs had the paper at the back door, so that is the area to them. Bananas even transferred that to another house.
When we found a pile in the basement after being gone all day. He slinked out with his tale between his legs and his ears down. He knew what he did wrong! One day coming home from church, he sat on the rug and would not budge. Self doggie time out. :rofl: He wouldn't even come to greet hubby. I went over every inch of that house and saw nothing, but he sure acted guilty.
So a few weeks ago, Zacchaeus used his sense of smell to find my freshly grilled Italian sausage and ran off with it leaving me with an empty bun with ketchup. :cry2: For an old dog with failing hearing and eyesight, he sure made his leap onto my chair with great speed and snarfed that down!
So a few weeks later, hubby grills bratwurst, and that dog was his good buddy! Following him everywhere. Hubby commented on his energy level still being quite good for a dog his age. Sure! He remembered how delicious my meat was, and he thought he might just swipe another one! Not on your life. I am onto him.
Dogs have the memories of elephants!
Hogwash!
Bananas always was sent to his doggie timeout by being told to "go on the paper." Sit. Stay. Visitors would look at us like we lost our marbles as the dog would strut to the back door and sit on the rug. But when being paper trained as puppies, our dogs had the paper at the back door, so that is the area to them. Bananas even transferred that to another house.
When we found a pile in the basement after being gone all day. He slinked out with his tale between his legs and his ears down. He knew what he did wrong! One day coming home from church, he sat on the rug and would not budge. Self doggie time out. :rofl: He wouldn't even come to greet hubby. I went over every inch of that house and saw nothing, but he sure acted guilty.
So a few weeks ago, Zacchaeus used his sense of smell to find my freshly grilled Italian sausage and ran off with it leaving me with an empty bun with ketchup. :cry2: For an old dog with failing hearing and eyesight, he sure made his leap onto my chair with great speed and snarfed that down!
So a few weeks later, hubby grills bratwurst, and that dog was his good buddy! Following him everywhere. Hubby commented on his energy level still being quite good for a dog his age. Sure! He remembered how delicious my meat was, and he thought he might just swipe another one! Not on your life. I am onto him.
Dogs have the memories of elephants!