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Hey Folks,
As some here may know... I'm a veteran pet owner, but I'm brand spankin new to Beagles. I just got Snoopy about a month ago. We've been going thru the ropes with pad training (Wow... what a headache). Well, I'm happy to report that we're one step closer to being fully trained.
To better understand, here's some back-story: I live in Korea, and stay in an apartment on the second floor. Here in Korea, there really is no such thing as a yard, parking lot, etc due to scarcity of land. Over here people go so far as to only park on the street rather than build parking lots because land is so precious. Every inch of unused land is used for farming rice. Residential areas build <span style="font-weight: bold">up</span>, not out. You may be wondering why I'm explaining all this... but I'm basically explaining why they do NOT have yards, which is why almost all dogs here are pad trained.
Well... we were having HUGE problems teaching Snoopy to go on a pad. IT was just too much, too fast; I decided to take smaller steps. So recently we created a small living area on the outside Balcony/Sun Room (The balcony is roughly 200 ft² and fully enclosed in double paned full length windows all the way around). We began letting Snoopy come inside (main house) and play and hang out with the big people and with Babo (our Cat)... until he used the bathroom in the house, at which time he had to go back outside (The Balcony) until the next day. (unless this was early in the morning. Then we would let him come back in later on that day). After about 4 days of making this mistake and having him lose his house priviledges, he started walking out the door to the Balcony when he needed to go to the bathroom and come back inside when he was finished.
Well, now that he has the basic idea down... I think next we're going to use pet gates to quarantine off the last 3-4 ft of the balcony to be used as the only acceptable bathrrom area. Hopefully he understands the concept and we can narrow it down to a good size area to be used exclusively for that (big enough to also have Babo's litter box in it. plus we'll open the sliding pane windows down there to keep the area aired out).
Good Job Snoopy. Woo
As some here may know... I'm a veteran pet owner, but I'm brand spankin new to Beagles. I just got Snoopy about a month ago. We've been going thru the ropes with pad training (Wow... what a headache). Well, I'm happy to report that we're one step closer to being fully trained.
To better understand, here's some back-story: I live in Korea, and stay in an apartment on the second floor. Here in Korea, there really is no such thing as a yard, parking lot, etc due to scarcity of land. Over here people go so far as to only park on the street rather than build parking lots because land is so precious. Every inch of unused land is used for farming rice. Residential areas build <span style="font-weight: bold">up</span>, not out. You may be wondering why I'm explaining all this... but I'm basically explaining why they do NOT have yards, which is why almost all dogs here are pad trained.
Well... we were having HUGE problems teaching Snoopy to go on a pad. IT was just too much, too fast; I decided to take smaller steps. So recently we created a small living area on the outside Balcony/Sun Room (The balcony is roughly 200 ft² and fully enclosed in double paned full length windows all the way around). We began letting Snoopy come inside (main house) and play and hang out with the big people and with Babo (our Cat)... until he used the bathroom in the house, at which time he had to go back outside (The Balcony) until the next day. (unless this was early in the morning. Then we would let him come back in later on that day). After about 4 days of making this mistake and having him lose his house priviledges, he started walking out the door to the Balcony when he needed to go to the bathroom and come back inside when he was finished.
Well, now that he has the basic idea down... I think next we're going to use pet gates to quarantine off the last 3-4 ft of the balcony to be used as the only acceptable bathrrom area. Hopefully he understands the concept and we can narrow it down to a good size area to be used exclusively for that (big enough to also have Babo's litter box in it. plus we'll open the sliding pane windows down there to keep the area aired out).
Good Job Snoopy. Woo
