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How smart is your dog? Ace is impressing me lately, lol.
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 458303" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Janet, after all these years, I still don't know if my dogs are potty trained or if I am! Since they don't all get along (Katy and Ragan hate each other!)I have to use the old "crate and rotate" routine so they're not all out at once. They don't mind because they're used to it and they sleep half the time anyway. As soon as I let them out of the crate I take them outside to potty and I take them again before they go back in to the crate. We do this every time and they go out again before they go to bed. It's more me 'anticipating', than them being trained. After five long years, Katy has finally started going to the door if she needs to go out. She'll just stand there and stare at me and half of the time she doesn't really need to go out, she's just bored and wants to walk around the yard, roll in the grass, and check out the kitties. If I don't jump right up to take her out, she will walk toward the dining room, still looking at me. This is doggie blackmail and what she's really saying is, "If you don't take me out, I'll go in and pee on the dining room carpet again!" So then I take her out and she walks around and rolls in the grass and watches the birds fly by ... and before we come in she will either pretend to pee or she will squeeze out a few drops just to show me that she really did need to go out!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 458303, member: 1883"] Janet, after all these years, I still don't know if my dogs are potty trained or if I am! Since they don't all get along (Katy and Ragan hate each other!)I have to use the old "crate and rotate" routine so they're not all out at once. They don't mind because they're used to it and they sleep half the time anyway. As soon as I let them out of the crate I take them outside to potty and I take them again before they go back in to the crate. We do this every time and they go out again before they go to bed. It's more me 'anticipating', than them being trained. After five long years, Katy has finally started going to the door if she needs to go out. She'll just stand there and stare at me and half of the time she doesn't really need to go out, she's just bored and wants to walk around the yard, roll in the grass, and check out the kitties. If I don't jump right up to take her out, she will walk toward the dining room, still looking at me. This is doggie blackmail and what she's really saying is, "If you don't take me out, I'll go in and pee on the dining room carpet again!" So then I take her out and she walks around and rolls in the grass and watches the birds fly by ... and before we come in she will either pretend to pee or she will squeeze out a few drops just to show me that she really did need to go out! [/QUOTE]
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