More thoughts...

Some days I hear people talking about how hard it is to have a puppy, how much Work it is. How the puppy are driving them crazy.

I do not understand it. Sorry, but I don't. They are puppies, babies, and do that young critters do - play, eat, poop, pee, learn and Sleep. I think we expect too much of our puppies - or have the wrong attitude towards it. Some people seem to think that dogs are born wellbehaved, and to some people "wellbehaved" means - lacking personality.

A puppy is easy! It gets tired quick, learns fast, is curious and playfull. What you need is patience untill the puppys behaviour are under control. Most puppies can't control their bladder untill they're 6 months old. People either dont know that or forget it.

And then, talking about puppies and bladders - Take away the friggin peepad/newspaper! All you are teaching your dog is to pee inside. Sure, if you have a wee tiny little lapdog I guess it can be very convenient to have a dog that pees in a litterbox... but a lot of dogs are bigger than a cat and pees a lot more! But housebreaking your puppy - don't teach it to pee in certain spots in the house... teach it to go outside. By the time you have it trained to pee on the newspaper.. you could have had it housebroke.

Kaiser is soon turning a year old, and he's full of play, love and opinions. I like my dogs to have opinions. I acctually love them for that, if there's no opinions there's no communication. And communication is what I am all about. He doesn't have to like all the things I do, and he's welcome to let me know that he don't. Now, depending on HOW he does it. He got the "look", a special face he makes to let me know that "Noooo... i dont agreee!", but he will still do it. With a bit of a huff and a puff some days. It's allright, he might not like it - but he does it for me.

I like him to have his personality, to do the things he does. While other people might view him as "illmannered" or "enoying" - I see it for what it is. Play. He is well aware of how to make me laugh, and apparently he likes it. My laugh has become a sort of praise for him, which is alright too! I litteraly can not get angry with him, I rarely got angry with my B either.

Anger has nothing to do with dogtraining - especially not puppies. What you do in anger can easily ruin 2 months of work.

To train in a "break" word - like my hey, is easier than you might think. Pick a word or a sound and use it - when the dog quits its behaviour PRAISE. Soon enough they know that that word means "quit doing what you are doing and come to me". Without rubbing your puppies nose in its pee (which you shouldn't be doing anyway!), waving a rolled up newspaper around (which only teatches your dog that you turn aggressive and noicy and mean all suddenly).

Ah... i'm going to quit my rambling now, my spellingabilities are still asleep so I'm heading towards the coffeepot!

Have a good one!