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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Feb 11, 2010 09:57 PM (Total replies: 211)
I'm sure you love your dogs too. 
Just keep training him. It will get better as the time goes on.
Just remember not to expect an overnight miracle 
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Feb 9, 2010 01:20 PM (Total replies: 211)
Yeah totally agree with you too.
My dog sometimes forgot where to pee too, and did it in the kitchen.
Funny is, right at the spot where we placed his food bowl lol.
Usually he pee in the toilets. Either the master bedroom's or the kitchen's.
So when i see that, while didn't catch him in the act, i just lead him to it and let him smell and said NO, before i lead him a few steps away to the kitchen and ask him to go in while saying "shee shee here"
Just need to keep doing it whenever he forgets.
Even old dogs with years of the training will forget about it.
So sigh.. dun beat your dog.. So pityful.
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Feb 9, 2010 02:47 AM (Total replies: 211)
God... please don't scream or beat your dog.. especially if you did not catch him in the act at all.
People tends to misunderstood the look their dog gave when they were being scold, as being guilty..
IT IS NOT A GUILTY LOOK.
It's the dogs' way of bowing down to you and let you know that you are the boss and he's just a follower. So thats why he lowered down its head and turned away from you.
Please understand that a dog don't have long memories. If you did not catch him in the act of peeing, then there isn't any point scolding him after the incident. Because they won't understand what he did wrong.
What he will do is look around the house, and at you, and try to figure out why you were being so abusive on him.
Dogs will forget sometimes. Thats why owners are there to remind them.
As for your case, you have no one at home during the daytime, since 2 mths ago.
Once he forget, and no one was there to remind him. Of course he will continue to pee in the new spot.
And i don't understand one thing, since you have 2 dogs, how do you know it was done from Shalom and not Shitsu?
If you want him back to how it was before, then you need to retrain him again.
No amount of yelling, screaming, beating will do anything to help at all.
It might make him fearful of everything and unloved.
The time when dogs might pee/poo are right away to 1 hour after meal. And after they wake up.
If you come back home and saw the pee again. Try letting him smell the pee on the floor, and say a firm NO. Use a tissue, dab the urine, let him smell the urine on the tissue and bring him to the toilet, and use the tissue to dab on the spot where you want him to pee, and let him smell again, while telling him in as few words as possible, example "urine here".
Please don't expect overnight miracle.
You need to keep doing it for days, weeks or even months before he learn where to pee again.
If you so much as beat him or scream at him again while retraining, it might diminish your efforts, since the dog will be really scared, and just by being near you when you're angry will make him think about running away instead of "listening" to you giving commands.
Please understand dogs are like single minded animals.
Once their brain are lock on thinking about something, it might be tough to make them focus on you again.
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Nov 21, 2009 05:58 PM (Total replies: 211)
why not you try moving the tray to another spot, dap a bit of her urine inside and retrain her?
And totally remove the urine smell from the floor, so as not to let her get used to that area.
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Nov 17, 2009 08:31 AM (Total replies: 211)
I don't know.. Since it has been 2 weeks since the grooming, and as long as she's eating well, still active and her usual self, i don't think it's much of a problem.
She maybe just forgot to pee at the correct spot now. But at least she's peeing near the tray, although it's at the floor right?
Just keep trying to catch her red-handed and slowly correct her.
Good luck!
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Nov 16, 2009 07:47 AM (Total replies: 211)
For the peeing problem, sometimes they will forget.. Just try your best to catch her in the act.
Usually within 1 hour after she wake up and after meals.
As for the biting issue. I think best is whenever she bite you, pretend to act hurt, and then ignore her.
Until she calm down, wait a few minutes before you play with her.
Keep doing it, so that she knows that only good behaviour will get her the best attention.
My dog also the same, likes to play bite. But managed to make him better now. He still does it sometimes, but much lesser now.
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Nov 11, 2009 12:39 PM (Total replies: 211)
I bought the Yogi pee tray too last year.
Thought it was a good idea, but then my dog refused to even step on it.
I even tried dapping his pee inside the tray before covering the top layer of the tray over it, but he still refused.
So i instead toilet trained him.
Basically, the tray is stored in my storeroom now, without a single usage (excluding me dapping his pee in the tray once.)
Anyone interested to buy the tray?
It's a waste keeping it when i'm not using it.
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Nov 9, 2009 10:42 PM (Total replies: 211)
It's really not good for them to hold for so long.
Might have a chance of bladder stones..
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Aggressive Dog!?! Oct 20, 2009 07:40 AM (Total replies: 99)
It's lucky my dog not territorial over his food.
He actually prefer if we hand feed him... God, i have a lazy dog.
He's not territorial over most of his toys too. I can safely remove his toys from his mouth.
It's just on items that he "looted" off our tables, like paper, tissue paper, or items that he know he's prohibited from touching.
He does bite my butt once when he sat on my chair and i came over to share with him.
My dog pretty selfish.. to think i share my chair with him so many times.. 
But that's a one off thing. Now i learn to command him off the chair before i sit on it.
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Aggressive Dog!?! Oct 20, 2009 07:35 AM (Total replies: 99)
My nephew used to play with him while lying down too, and Bom Bom would do that "attacking" thing too, to get a upper hand on him.
When he play bite on me, i'll act hurt and craddle my hand and said "pain pain", usually Bom Bom just stop it and look away.
Sometimes, i just put his hand into his own mouth and press his jaw together to let him try "biting" himself. lol.
That is my friend "specialty" to stop his puppy playing bite that time.
But just be careful when it get agressive. When it really bite you, best not to jerk your hand away, it will make them bite even harder and tear the skin.
Thus drawing blood.
But before it get that way, learn to see their body language.
For those dogs that are used to biting back to ward you off, they don't give much signals anymore (like growling etc), they just bite right away.
So for those dogs, you have to handle with more care, example if they have items in their mouth or toys near them that they will get territorial over.
Always try to get them away from the items before you go and clear it up.
But even so, their body will tense before they bite, so watch for that.
My father use those methol oil for mosquito/insect bites.
The 4 seasons oil? It works wonder and much cheaper.
Dogs hate that smell.
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He's starting to pee at wrong places. what is happening? Oct 18, 2009 05:24 AM (Total replies: 211)
I took 2 mths to finally toilet trained my dog..
The key is to know that they need to pee shortly after they woke up and after meals.
Since my dog have 2 meals per day, so he need to pee at least 3 times per day.
Went through a lot of trials and errors before he know the correct place to pee..
Because i didn't know what to do at first too, until i look through the net for guides.
Even bought the toilet break liquid drop (not effective at all).
If it's possible to catch them in the act of peeing at the wrong places and firmly tell them NO and bringing them immediately after they pee to the correct spot you want it to go, will be best.
Try to soak up their urine with a tissue and dap the area with their urine and tell them to pee there.
Let them smell it too.
It won't be any use to scold or beat (strongly not recommended), after the act itself. As they won't understand what you are punishing them for.
And will continue doing it.
I have read that if for example, you failed to catch your dog in the act of tearing papers apart, but rather after the act itself, and bring him over to the mess and scold or beat him for it, his brain register that he was punished for messing up the place, not because he tear the papers apart.
Edited by nikkie on Oct 18, 2009 at 05:26 AM
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dog scratching door in the middle of night Oct 18, 2009 05:09 AM (Total replies: 9)
Scratching the door is part of separation anxiety.
My dog has it, and i'm still trying to break him out of the habit.
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/articles/linksbehavior.htm
Learned a lot through this website and still trying to change my mindset and train myself before i can train my dog effectively 
My family called my dog as my personal walking alarm.
If i sleep and he didn't see me for about 8 hours (i still dunno how he timed himself..), he will scratch my bedroom door every 5-15mins until i come out.
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Barks at everyone Oct 18, 2009 05:02 AM (Total replies: 13)
I have seen this owner on a walk once and his dog is growling and barking at my dog.
What the owner did was stand in front of the dog to shut off the view with my dog while making his dog look at him and commanding his dog to sit and saying NO. When his dog calm down, the owner then slowly move away.
The owner told me it was quite effective, but need to train it a lot of times.
I have read that it's best to start giving your dog a firm NO, when you see its body tensing and about to bark.
Coz once a dog started to bark and get distracted, it's harder for them to listen to commands. Their mind will be already gone from that point on lol.
So i guess the owner's way of standing in between his dog and my dog to break their eye contact vs each other is a good way to bring his dog back to earth too.
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Aggressive Dog!?! Oct 18, 2009 04:43 AM (Total replies: 99)
I found this website especially helpful to me.
My dog is alpha dog, jump on us or bite us when we tried to remove items from his mouth.
Not to mention having separation anxiety too. (mostly if i'm the person leaving the house)
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/articles/linksbehavior.htm
Still trying to work on him step by step, but can see some improvements already.
Just don't expect things to change overnight.
It's harder on my side, because my dad give in to him sooooo much! grrr
I have read that when trying to give a firm NO while looking into your dog's eyes, we should never be the first to break away from the eye contact.
To the dog, it means we gave in or even worse, WEAK!
Never play with them while we're on the same height level as them. And don't play tug-of-war, esp if we were to lose.
So for his biting problem. Everytime he sneakily bite a piece of tissue, paper, shoe etc. I'll tell him NO or NO BITE BITE while maintaining eye contact with him, plus a stern look on my face, until he drop the item on the floor.
Even then, don't put your hand in right away to take the item. Because usually my dog still rest his head on the item (or very near it), and will bite if your hand goes near it. I usually try praising him when he listen and drop the item. Then said good dog, come here. When he willingly move away from the item, then it's a good time to remove the item.
But of course, sometimes it might failed too. But at least i managed to make him drop the item everytime now. Just tougher to get him to move away from the item himself willingly.
Oh, never ever try to use a cane or newspaper or whatever stuffs to beat him, to get him to drop the item. I find him more agressive if i even as much as raise my hand wanting to smack him.
On a side note, even if i want to cane him, he already "murdered" 2 canes my mum bought last year by sneaking it under the bed when none of us noticed...
Btw, the website is on knowing more about our dogs behaviour and training ourselves first before effectively training our dogs.
Edited by nikkie on Oct 18, 2009 at 04:46 AM
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