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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: billieryder
Date: July 20, 2024, 10:18 pm
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> Ah, that is so sweet! What progress you've made with him!
>
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To be honest, I feel like I haven't done much. I hang with him,
take walks, feed him and protect him from the cats.
He knows "off" at least when it comes to my bed and sort of
knows "come". I haven't even bothered with sit or down. I
haven't even worked on crate training since I decided it was
easier to just have him sleep by the bed. He only goes into the
crate for my doctor's appts.
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: Skowronek
Date: July 21, 2024, 5:04 am
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Finally got the inflatable off and can sprawl properly!
Happy boy. Lucky too.
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: Skowronek
Date: July 21, 2024, 5:12 am
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--- Quote from: billieryder link ---
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> [quote author=farmgirl link=topic=2806.msg263865#msg263865
date=1721528908]
> Ah, that is so sweet! What progress you've made with him!
>
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To be honest, I feel like I haven't done much. I hang with him,
take walks, feed him and protect him from the cats.
He knows "off" at least when it comes to my bed and sort of
knows "come". I haven't even bothered with sit or down. I
haven't even worked on crate training since I decided it was
easier to just have him sleep by the bed. He only goes into the
crate for my doctor's appts.
[/quote]
Sit is easy if he's curious about anything at all. Place object
in palm of hand, hold hand higher than eye leveling front of his
face, say "sit". Wait until his button hits ground for a second
or two and say, "YES!" or click your clicker, good or whatever
works for you. He sees object and gets a reward. Heck, make the
object that smidgen of roast chicken he wants anyway.
He uses the crate when you're out for a stretch of time and
isn't fussed about it. I'd call that a win.
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: Queenie
Date: July 21, 2024, 6:36 am
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Dogs love learning new cues, and "sit" is a great place to
start. Poodles very very smart and highly trainable.
Remember, to them it's a fun game of "how can I get this lady
to give me some chicken?"
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: Thetis099
Date: July 21, 2024, 7:05 am
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Second on poodles being very smart and highly trainable. We had
a mostly poodle when I was a kid, and Ricky was such a good dog!
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: VanGoghSunflowers
Date: July 21, 2024, 10:17 am
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--- Quote from: billieryder link ---
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> [quote author=farmgirl link=topic=2806.msg263865#msg263865
date=1721528908]
> Ah, that is so sweet! What progress you've made with him!
>
--- End Quote ---
To be honest, I feel like I haven't done much. I hang with him,
take walks, feed him and protect him from the cats.
He knows "off" at least when it comes to my bed and sort of
knows "come". I haven't even bothered with sit or down. I
haven't even worked on crate training since I decided it was
easier to just have him sleep by the bed. He only goes into the
crate for my doctor's appts.
[/quote]
Billie, I'm not a dog person, but I am a person who regularly
adopts the hardest luck case in the shelter, even when I don't
mean to (looking at you, Facebiter).
A little more training would probably improve his quality of
life, but the most important thing you are teaching him is that
he's not on his own any more. He can trust a human to take care
of him. That is a big big deal. Give yourself credit for that.
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: Aardtacha
Date: July 21, 2024, 11:41 am
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--- Quote from: billieryder link ---
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> [quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=2806.msg263675#msg263675
date=1721427456]
> [quote author=billieryder link=topic=2806.msg263625#msg263625
date=1721418572]
> So, I walk off my front step, turn right, walk 30 feet or so
which puts me under a tree and I feel something hit me head.
It's probably a thingie off the flowering tree right? Wrong. A
bird pooped on my head.
>
> And of course Rocket hasn't even thought about peeing or
pooping and he won't for at least 20 minutes. So here I am
trying to convince the dude he needs to hurry his business up.
>
> And the tricks people tell me about to hurry up his business?
Complete failures. Walk him in circles in one spot so he won't
have anything new to smell. I might get a single circle in
before he looks at me like I've lost my mind and actively
attempts to be anywhere else but that circle. Condition him by
using the word potty so he goes on command. I swear the second
I open my mouth to say Go Potty as he is literally circling to
find the perfect spot resets him and he starts off again. I'm
better off keeping my mouth shut.
>
> So... how often do you have to wash your hair before you feel
confident that you've got it out?
>
> This fostering business has opened me up to all kinds of new
experiences.
>
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Been pooped on lots of times. One wash'll do it, no problem.
If you're feeling really squicked about it, give yourself a
vinegar rinse after. Be careful -- vinegar stings if you get it
into your eyes. Even dilute vinegar. Apple cider or white work
equally well.
[/quote]
According to my friend, C, the most surprising thing about my
story is that I have never been pooped on before now.
[/quote]
That you know of...
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: acl-ny
Date: July 21, 2024, 11:43 am
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We had a small mini poodle. He was wicked smaht! Had to spell
things around him and I swear he was learning that too.
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: billieryder
Date: July 21, 2024, 12:16 pm
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I will eventually get to teaching him other things but mostly I
think I'm teaching him about life and schedules and that is
keeping us busy enough.
Today's life lesson is that my front closet door makes a
horrible noise but it's still safe to walk by it to get in and
out of the house.
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Re: Foster Adventures
DIR By: MidwestmikkiJ
Date: July 21, 2024, 12:24 pm
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--- Quote from: billieryder link ---
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> I will eventually get to teaching him other things but mostly
I think I'm teaching him about life and schedules and that is
keeping us busy enough.
>
> Today's life lesson is that my front closet door makes a
horrible noise but it's still safe to walk by it to get in and
out of the house.
>
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This makes sense. I’m still afraid of the door to the boiler
room in the elementary school I went to back in the 1950s. And
that school building no longer exists. But I still sometimes
have dreams about that door.
We walked by that door on the way to the gym/cafeteria so it
must have done something once as my class was passing by.
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