Comments on: Puppy Chewing Technique: Cataloging Chewables

By: Kenneth L. White

Kenneth L. White — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:10:35 +0000

A great post! I’ve been saying for years that dogs are just like children, but I never thought about trying this technique! One of the best things that you said is that people often yell or shoo their dogs away from a particular item. I find that the dog will leave that item alone in your presence, but as soon as you’re not around…look out!

This information and post are at definite must read for any dog owner! Keep up the great info!
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By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:06:45 +0000

John Ryzak,

You bring up very true points John. Points that I should expand on in another post. But basically I think what you’re talking about is setting the dog up for success.

In normal training environments we always want to start with the easiest requests that we can make of a dog, and then slowly make it harder and harder. So just like we wouldn’t first work on getting our dog to come on command while at a dog park with 100 other dogs, we shouldn’t make it harder for our dog’s to be “good” by forcing them to discriminate between rawhide belts and bones.

I’m in complete agreement that just cleaning up our homes makes this automatically easier for our dogs.

thanks for the comment,

chet

By: JOHN RYZAK

JOHN RYZAK — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:32:21 +0000

YOU HAVE SOME GOOD INFORMATION HERE , BUT AS HUMANS WE HAVE COGNITIVE THINKING, AND WE KNOW WHATS RIGHT AND WRONG AND YET WE STILL MAKE MASTAKS MY POINT BEING EVEN IF YOU THINK THAT IN TIME YOU CAN TEACH A DOG THAT HE CAN CHEW THE COW HIDE BONE BUT HE CAN’T CHEW THE COW HIDE BELT,YOU CAN STILL COUNT ON THAT FACT THAT, FOR WHAT EVER THE RESON, and THERE ARE MANY, THAT BELT WILL GET CHEWED ON AT SOME POINT.YOU CAN ELIMANATE A GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PROBLEM BY JUST CLEANING UP YOUR own act AROUND THE HOUSE.There’s no reason that your shoes or belt shouldn’t be but away in the closet ,the tv remote put up high on the entertainment center,your wallet put away in a drawer and so on. Often it go’s along way to get some training ourselves first, it results in faster and more successful training of our dogs.and along the way gain a little self disipline for ourselves Just food for thought ,i enjoyed your blog, i did read somethings i was not aware of.

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:38:29 +0000

Thanks, this is helpful. My puppy understands leave it — he just doesn’t always do it and he often goes right back to the item I told him to leave, even though I have given him a substitute. He is getting better, though!

By: sandy kleinhause

sandy kleinhause — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:47:36 +0000

i have a 7 week old female boxer puppy and she runs aftermus biting at our pant legs and shoes when we walk – and almost trip over her. i can’t take off my pants all day or walk barefoot. how would i solve this problem. we have hadher for 2 days, after our last boxer of 15 years died. the interview with amanda brothers was great. i am in isarel. how can i use your services- i am a bit out of the seattle area