Potty Training Dogs

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Question: how to house train dogs at night when we are sleeping/not to potty in the house?

how to house train dogs at night.
i am disabled . have to wake up and let the dogs out.

Answer: Put them in a crate a night, this will certainly train the dog not to eliminate in there as it becomes their ‘den’.

Best wishes

Potty Training a Dog

Question: I need help with potty training 2 dogs?

I have 2 dogs, one is 13 years old and one is 1 1/2 years old. We are moving to a new house which is beautiful and I want them to go outside. Here they pretty much go inside and I keep cleaning it up! How can I train them to go outside when they are older dogs? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Answer: Start from scratch — maybe enlist the help of a trainer at PetSmart

Question: Are choker collars cruel?

I work at a pet hotel and I always see dogs come in with choker collars, pinch collars, harnesses, and gentle leaders. I’ve always considering choker collars and pinch collars cruel, especially if used on an every day basis and not just for training. Isn’t the reason for them to get your dog to walk well on a leash? They never seem to learn from a choker or pinch collar and people always seem to literally be choking their dogs half the time. I know with my dog I use a gentle leader, because in no way does it hurt her. It goes around her nose and back of head so she doesn’t have the force of her whole body to pull me, and she quickly learned to walk alongside me. Harnesses seem safe but still don’t give you control over the dog because they have their entire body weight to pull you.

Does anyone use chokers or pinches? Why? Also, gentle leaders are a pretty new thing. I always have people asking me what’s on my dog. Do many of you know what they are?

Answer: i prefer and recommend prong collars. they do not have the propensity to do the long term damage that a chain (“choke chain”) can cause.
in addition, they administer a much quicker, controlled correction when used properly (and if you have ever put one on your arm and corrected yourself you would see that they are really just a pinch).

the problem with the people you keep seeing is that they have the TOOLS for the training, but are not actually DOING the training.

the fact that a dog is wearing ANY type of corrective collar or device does not mean that it is “trained” upon putting it on. the dog still needs to be trained. the tool is only used to administer correction, and before corrections can be effectively administered, the dog must know WHAT the handler wants it to do.
the people who are coming into your work have NO idea how to train the dog, so that the dog understands what it should do.
a correction should only be issued when the dog ignores or refuses a command that it KNOWS. then the correction is effective. these dogs, i am willing to bet, know NOTHING, because they won’t learn ANYTHING from a collar. collars don’t train. handlers do.

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