Re: [PyrNet-L] Crating an older dog

[Jane.Ashley@abnamro.com]

Does anyone else have Pyr's who are sock stealers? Mine doesn't chew
them..he just dangles it from one tooth just out of my reach. Am I bad for
laughing at him? He uses it as a "whippy toy", shaking his head violently
left and right and the sock just dangles. I'm not sure if I am teaching him
a bad habit, but it's so cute.

Jane




"Mitzi Potter" <Pyrs@prodigy.net> on 12/01/98 02:49:43 PM

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Subject:  Re: [PyrNet-L] Crating an older dog




On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:11:56 -0500 (EST), Ann Wetherilt wrote:

>I have another question, however, regarding crate-training a puppy. If you
>are going to use it as a house-training device, you want the puppy to
>sleep in the crate the first night you have him/her home...and when taking
>naps during the day. I'm not anticipating a puppy any time soon, but what
>do people do with a new one who has not been crated before?

I've been really lucky with most my dogs. I put the crate next to my side
of the bed
and at the very 1st whine (if there is one) I bang my hand on top of the
crate and say
"quiet!" in my meanest voice. I'm pretty strict with the things that are
important to me
(there's just not that many things that are important to ME). Different
things are
important to different people. With most my Pyr pups I've never even had to
bang the
crate. With my Chow mix though.....(who's me in another life <G>) NOTHING
worked.
My hand got sore, she just cried louder and I buried my head under the
pillow. Why do
you think I consider my Pyrs perfect in every way?? LOL!! And I'm not so
strict about
not putting them in bed with me. They seem to adjust fine to the crate
after they're
used to things a little more. If my little Chow mix would've stayed put on
the bed I'd
have gladly put her there just to get some sleep. Desperate people do
desperate
things lol!! She's like my little soulmate though-I love that dog in such a
different way.
She was so tiny and so sick when I got her, she was dumped in someone's
parking lot
and was only about 4 wks old, the pups could barely toddle around. She had
sarcoptic
mange and was missing huge chunks of hair, had big scabs all over her body
and only
weighed 3 lbs. I got her 2 days after we put my precious Shep mix down for
cancer,
same markings as a pup, same personality, everything. I was so relieved
that
SOMEthing eased the pain of losing my Shep mix that I wouldn't have cared
how much
noise she made, she was my baby.
Well, well. Pretty long winded for a Tuesday, huh??? LOL!!
~Mitzi  Potter
~Pyrs@prodigy.net   Okla City   OK
~http://members.aol.com/fivepyrs/dogsz.htm




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