Hi Bonnie, congrats on your new baby! And he is just that...just a baby. He does not have contrtol over his bladder yet...keep things consistant...he'll figure out the door thing soon enough. Does he remember to run to the door sometimes? When he does do that, really praise him. I
Some dogs just aren't food motivated...I have two dogs...one would eat the tables if I let her, and the other has a take it or leave it attitude...he has since puppyhood been that way...in fact just finding a food he would eat really took awhile. I never did give treats for teaching them to go outside, or to even so much as sit...I just gave them a lot of praise when they learned how to do things, i.e. sit, stay...being a very brand new dog owner, it might be wise to go to Pet Smart and sign up for training...it'll give you the basics on what you need to do when it comes to training...a friend of mine went there, and she got a lot out of it... Val Sampson and Delilah Jax, FL In a message dated 5/10/2007 9:15:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > I'm now the proud owner of a cockapoo and as this is my first dog ever...I'm > having trouble > figuring out what is "normal". > > He's a cutie and more on the independent temperment. He was actually the > only dog in the > litter - I didn't know that happened. > > Anyways - he isn't very food motivated and is very distractable so it's been > hard to train him. > > Is that normal for a puppy to rather look at every leaf than go for the > treat? > > Also - I'm trained to let him out every so often, so that's been going > decently well so I've let > him out around the house more. But he keeps having accidents as he doesn't > remember to > run out to the door to get let out. > > He's just over 4 months - is that normal? I thought they learned a lot > sooner? If not, is there > anything I can do to get him to learn to go to the door when he has to go? > > thanks. > Bonnie > >
