More Puppy Tales
11. 10. 2008 at 4:36 pmTaboo has been doing very well with his potty training. We very rarely have any accidents in the house now. He will first scratch at the door to be let out. If he don’t hear him doing that, he’ll bark at the door. If we ignore that, he’ll run into whatever room we are in and bark and jump around like crazy. IF we ignore that, he leaves a trailing lake all over the house on the way to the door lol He’s the only puppy I know that will walk and pee at the same time haha
He’s learned what “Taboo”, “outside”, “inside”, “truck ride” “get your {name of toy - fish, cheeseburger, alien, spaghetti monster, chewie, frisbee, ball, rope}” and “beach” mean and the commands “sit”, “off”, “down” and “come” are done almost instantly - most of the time. He still gets easily distracted though and forgets what he is supposed to be doing. Butterflies, dragonflies, flies, leaves falling, wind blowing, shiny things, sticks, rocks, strings on my hoodie, shoelaces… All distracting items LOL!
Pointing to the floor makes him sit or lay down (usually). Pointing in a direction makes him look that way or fetch an item. Pointing at him makes him pay attention to what is being said to him (though sometimes, it makes him jump in the air trying to eat the pointing finger LOL). Pointing at the door of a room makes him leave the room and sit in the hallway (usually).
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