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| Help or DivorceI have a two pound toy poddle i live in Ontario Canada. He has been my mate for 5 year just me and him. I have now a human mate and the two are at odds. My mate is a true believer that a dog should never be in the kitchen or around the table. So he started using a squirt bottle to get the dog out as he would not go and stay out. Someone told us not to use a squirt bottle as it stresses the animal out. So we have stopped. But the dogs behaviour is getting worse. He will not go out for my mate but will relieve himself right in front of him. He will now relieve himself during the day when we are not home and when we are. The dog never did this before. It is killing my relationship. Help what do i do now! |
|  "Consistency"
Hoo boy. A lot of questions here, not only about dog psychology, but human psychology as well.You and your human partner are using different approaches to discipline. That is sending mixed signals to the dog, and confusing her. The most important thing is to find some common ground. You've got to present a united front to the dog; any inconsistency will only make things worse. A suggestion: take a dog training course together, the two of you. If you're both submitting yourselves to the training techniques of a neutral third party, it avoids an argument about which of you two is "right." Learning something together, like a shared training technique, can help bring you and him closer. Not only will the course give you strategies for dealing with the dog's misbehavior, the consistency itself will be beneficial to your dog, by making her more comfortable; she'll know what to expect, no matter which of you she's dealing with at any given time. Good luck! |
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