Friday 30 September 2011

Training Pads

The other day, mum got Bella some training pads. It didn't work out well. Bella chewed them up and dragged them across the floor, although she did pee on it this morning, which was good.

Wednesday 28 September 2011

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Bella is pretty much toilet trained! She has an accident every now and then but apart from that, she's good. I am teaching her "get it" where she retrieves an objet and holds it until I tell her to let go. She's pretty good, but today I did it for ages and she got bored and turned her head when I put the toy near her, but to show her that I finish the sessions, I waited until she did it, which took a while but she did it. She now does "door" perfectly. "door" is when she opens the door. I am also going to make this blog into a book.

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Fast learner

This sounds weird but, I taught Bella how to get on the couch. Your probably thinking 'what?'. Let me explain, whenever I'm watching tv, Bella always watches it with me, on the couch but, there was a problem with that, she couldn't get up, so I had to lift her all the time, which got annoying, so I taught her how to jump up by herself. Now your probably thinking 'how did you do it?'. Well, I got 1 pillow and encouraged her to get on it, when she got good at that, I added another one and did the same thing over and over, until she was able to jump from the top pillow to the couch. Then I did exactly the same thing but backwards, when she got good at jumping from the pillows to the couch I took 1 pillow away, then, when she got good at that, I did the same thing. I know that your not supposed to have long training sessions with dogs, but we did this for about 1 hour and she didn't get bored, because it didn't seem like a training session, it was a game! My gorgeos pup can now get on and off the couch by herself! Oh, and she can stop a ball with her paws as well!