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Crate Training
Providing your
puppy or dog with an indoor kennel crate can satisfy many dogs' need
for a den-like enclosure. Besides being an effective housebreaking tool
(because it takes advantage of the dog's natural reluctance to soil its
sleeping place), it can also help to reduce separation anxiety, to
prevent destructive behavior (such as chewing furniture), to keep a
puppy away from potentially dangerous household items (i.e., poisons,
electrical wires, etc.), and to serve as a mobile indoor dog house
which can be moved from room to room whenever necessary.
Click here for information: Basic Guidelines
Separation Anxiety One of the most
common complaints of pet parents is that their dogs are disruptive or
destructive when left alone. Their dogs might urinate, defecate, bark,
howl, chew, dig or try to escape. Although these problems often
indicate that a dog needs to be taught polite house manners, they can
also be symptoms of distress. When a dog’s problems are accompanied by
other distress behaviors, such as drooling and showing anxiety when his
pet parents prepare to leave the house, they aren’t evidence that the
dog isn’t house trained or doesn’t know which toys are his to chew.
Instead, they are indications that the dog has separation anxiety.
Separation anxiety is triggered when dogs become upset because of
separation from their guardians, the people they’re attached to.
Click here for information: Symptoms and Training Plans
Marking
Urine marking is a
normal form of communication among dogs. Dogs are drawn to urine marks
left by other dogs and are apparently able to get information by
sniffing the urine, such as the identity, the sex and the reproductive
status (whether a dog is neutered or spayed) of the marker. Males are
more likely than females to urine mark, and reproductively intact males
are more likely to mark than neutered males, especially in the presence
of females or rival males. Reproductively intact females will mark,
especially prior to coming into and during estrous (before and while
they’re in heat) to advertise their availability. However, even spayed
females sometimes urine mark.
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