My uncle has this horrible dog about a year old, the dog is a rat terrier. He eats the door, table, shoe, heel of a shoe (if it’s a high heel), anything that’s on the floor, how do you train him? If you have any videos, links, anything, tips, please do.
Thanks,
Megan
If he does this only when people are out (especially the door), he may be ill-at-ease about being left alone, or bored.
Management comes first – not just so your uncle’s things won’t be destroyed, but also so the dog doesn’t get a chance to practice the behavior. Every time he gets to chew the humans’ stuff, he “learns” it’s OK.
So, a thorough cleanup and always keeping things out of his reach is needed.
If he ever gets hold of something he shouldn’t have, don’t chase him to get it — that really teaches him that grabbing your stuff leads to fun.
Then, give him lots and lots and lots of things he is permitted to chew. Make those things exciting by playing tug and keep-away (in either direction) with them, if they are a good size for that (don’t play tug with a small toy — even a dog with great control might get a tooth on your hand while doing that).
There’s even a taste/smell you can spray on his toys, to make them appealing and mark them as “his” –
I’m working training my puppy to ring a bell when she has to go outside. She now completley understands when I say “outside” she goes and rings the bell and gets a treat. But I’m wondering how I can associate ringing the bell with outside. It seems like shes only associating the bell with me saying “outside” and getting treats instead of actually going outside. Any tips on what to do next? Should I stop with the treats when she rings the bell and just take her outside?
I trained using the bell and now regret it, I’ll explain why after. Every time I took my puppy out I would have her use her nose to bump the bell (if you train with them using there paws to bump the bell, expect your door and wall to get scratch up worse than what the bell does by itself). After I would help her bump the bell with her nose, I would praise and take her out side. Just keep repeating until your puppy does it on there own. Each time they use the bell get super excited and praise and take them immediately outside. They will pick up on it very quick as long as you make it positive and keep at it.
Why I wish I didn’t train with the bell… Once my puppy figure it out, she also figured out if she rang the bell she got to go outside. Well, she started asking every 10 minutes to go! LOL! That is easy to figure out when she is needing to go out or being a brat. It is annoying when she would do it just to do it. You try to make it so a positive potty trip and she abuse it! Hehehe! She still uses the bell to this day, she is now 1-yrs old. But the bell has seriously left some dents in both the door and the wall next to the door, she rings that thing like no one can hear it. That is one of the reasons I wouldn’t have your puppy use there paw to ring, it will only add to the damage the bell will do.
If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t use a bell. I did find this product that is meant for this thing and it won’t do the damage a normal bell would. Check it out and good luck with the training!
can you give me some websites review of related literature in Schutzhund dog training?
Hi ,
Check this guide , its awesome , it will help you train your dog by yourself , its a really professional training http://www.kingdomofpets.com/dogobediencetraining/?aff=basimdcs , Hope this helps you
