puppies
oooooooooooooh puppies
are very very hard to train if you've never had a dog
it's like a crash course

you should remember that they can probably take the dog away at any time and you will likely start to love the puppy and then omg it's gone :'((
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 16:41, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Oh'aye', I know it'll be hard, i'll be cleaning up poo and piss and sick at silly hours and all that, but downstairs in the new place has wooden flooring rather than carpets, and I can put a baby-gate thing on the bottom of the stairs for when it's in.
And I know it'll chew through things occasionally and some of those things might be a beloved teddy or whatever.... but the joy I could get from it would be untold.

I would see it like seeing your kids graduate when it is time for it to go... and giving a blind person a chance to see (well, you know what I mean). And I've got the mindset from the start that it won't be forever, so I think it'll be alright in that department. And if I don't like it, or it doesn't work, I give it back and that's that, which you can't really do with a dog of your own.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 16:47, Reply)

I'm thinking of more in the behavioral department. Buy a load of books and study them, go to a trainer and get advice.
Start early and go hard. Because I've had my pup for over a year and she's still not where she needs to be, mostly because of the cuddling and cooing and treating her like a princess. It's been hard to break her.
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 16:55, Reply)

Yeah', I'd need to get quite a bit of advise, it's also a 'working dog' too, which is different in terms of how they need to be.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 17:10, Reply)