Somehow I think I'm going to have lots of surprises with that little guy...
He already knows he has to pee and poop outside, although he still has accidents. He's also figured out that to go out to pee, he can whine at the gate. That works very well, except that now he does it 2 minutes after I got him back in because he wants to go out to play...
When I take him out and he pees, he comes to get his treat. If I don't have one, he just looks at me and turns away... When I call the dogs back in, I say 'come on boys, inside', and they usually follow me... especially if I have a bag of treats in my hands, and now instead of following me to the room he stays in (until he's housetrained, like I did with Boris - after that he can stay in the house), he rushes past me, goes in the room, and sits there wagging his tail and looking at me expectantly, as he knows he's going to get a treat. Boris is always his very careful self, licking his lips and drooling at the treats but not daring coming in because he knows i will close the gate behind him.
The problem also is that now that he knows how to get treats, he's getting picky with his normal food... I had to spill his food in his crate this morning to get him to eat. He ate some of it, I opened the crate, and he rushed to Boris' bowl... while Boris rushed in the crate to finish the rest... Jee, I need to find a way of getting rid of this problem.
Dogs...
He already knows he has to pee and poop outside, although he still has accidents. He's also figured out that to go out to pee, he can whine at the gate. That works very well, except that now he does it 2 minutes after I got him back in because he wants to go out to play...
When I take him out and he pees, he comes to get his treat. If I don't have one, he just looks at me and turns away... When I call the dogs back in, I say 'come on boys, inside', and they usually follow me... especially if I have a bag of treats in my hands, and now instead of following me to the room he stays in (until he's housetrained, like I did with Boris - after that he can stay in the house), he rushes past me, goes in the room, and sits there wagging his tail and looking at me expectantly, as he knows he's going to get a treat. Boris is always his very careful self, licking his lips and drooling at the treats but not daring coming in because he knows i will close the gate behind him.
The problem also is that now that he knows how to get treats, he's getting picky with his normal food... I had to spill his food in his crate this morning to get him to eat. He ate some of it, I opened the crate, and he rushed to Boris' bowl... while Boris rushed in the crate to finish the rest... Jee, I need to find a way of getting rid of this problem.
Dogs...