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	I Don't Feel So Good Please ignore all the crap in our den

Y'all are going to get so sick & tired of this dawg. I luffs her. Her one-ear-up-one-ear-down kills me. She's not feeling so hot today, and after she had a tour of the house she puked on the floor. Twice. She also peed on her brand-new bed. It's forgivable today. She seems gentle and timid right now, but she walked out of the clinic on her own paws (she's got webbed feet & does not protest at all when her paws are handled!) but she was absolutely, positively terrified of the cars in the parking lot. The animal shelter said she had been picked up as a stray, so she's got a good reason to be dodgy of vehicles. I had to gingerly pick her up & hold onto her to get into the car. I kept expecting her to get carsick, but she just stayed in my lap, & I finally put her on the floorboard so she could lay down. She kept looking up at me w/that one huge bat-like pointy ear & putting her nose on my knee - I was like, "You got some coyote in you somewhere?". Now she is just laying on her bed & snoring. She looks quite contented over there.

Rob tried a half a Lexapro today - when he came to pick me up he was uber-wired. He said he could see individual veins on tree leaves a mile away. I don't know if he'll keep trying the Lexapro or if he's just going to stick w/the Xanax.

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omg I wants to steal her!!!!!

Awww sooo cute, puppy dog ears awwww flood me with photos kekeke

Best thing to do when she shows fear is ignore it, I fked up royally with my first dog and each time she was scared or nervous I picked her up and cuddled her and said it was ok puppy rarara - I was praising her for being scared!!!!

So you got to ignore it, just so oh you silly dog and get her to focus on you and ask her to sit or something, pretty much have tstay treats on you ALL the time while she adjusts and grows up.

Also, pound/shelter dogs take a few days/weeks to adjust to 'being free'm get your man to take her to puppy classes (help both him and her :) they are the best place so she can socialise and you can learn whats what, especially that breed if u havent had dogs before.

A great training book is Dog Training the gentle modern method by David weston.

Oh and clicker training IS FANTASTIC!!!!!!

awww pupppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

It's kind of sad, she'd only been in the animal shelter for 5 days when we got her - I don't know what kind of household she was in before she got picked up. She seems too comfy around people to be feral, but no one really knows how long she was roaming around before Animal Control picked her up.

She was feeling much better this morning, so she's up & exploring the house w/her nose, & she's eating & drinking. She doesn't respond much to the toys we got her, just kind of mouths them - it's like she doesn't know how to play :( I took her out in the back yard this morning & the neighbor's dog (they named him Buddha... Every morning all I hear is, "Buddha! Shut up!") started barking & she flipped out - I just stood there & let her run around at the end of the leash.

It's going to take some time, but I think she's going to be a great dog in a few weeks.

hmmmm yes shouting at a dog called Buddha will bring you great karma ughhhh

Im sure she will come out of her shell once she is settled, Ive seen some of our dogs come from abused situations - beaten starved etc and in the right home they all bounce back!

Seems like she has never had toys, every time she chews something she shouldnt, growl at her, grab her toy and put it in her mouth and shake it and tell her she is good and act happy, also, try naming her toys - my guys know the names for heaps of things.

Also we always play 'good cop bad cop' with our dogs and its worked great for us!

For example, if Im cooking and dont want pup standing there staring at me as I want him to get use to being on his bed inside and not just put outside when Im cooking or we are eating, so if Im cooking and he is hanging around well I grumble and growl at him and in a gruff voice say "XXX on your bed" my partner then in a really nice voice over by the dogs bed, calls him nicely and gives him a treat on his bed.

When he comes back to the kitchen we just repeat and he learns being on his bed means treats and pats. This way he learns that rewards are for doing the right thing.

Ignoring also works well if they are doing naughty things like jumping up, and when training to come to their name, be all super excited like coming to you is the best thing in the world and that whatever they were doing is boring!

I also teach my dogs 'where is' so as a pup when he went from me to my bf Id say 'Where's Daryl' he learnt what 'Daryl' meant, he can also do this now with each of the other 3 dogs too :) This way when Daryl is calling him I can say "where's Daryl?" as my bf calls pup so its a double re-inforcment of coming when called!! It also means we can play hide and seek with him too!

oh and on toilet training, this may sound odd, but its worked for me lol when I take them out (as pups) and they piss I go 'piss boy/girl/name' its conditioning, they soon learn to go outside or more so you can take them out more often and tell them 'piss boy/girl/name' and they do it quicker rather than mucking about.

I use 'hurry up' for shits lol and it also is going back to LONG time ago when I showed my dogs and u didnt want them crapping in the ring - these days its more for before an event too lol

fk I should write a book on my doggy adventures lol

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