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Many have asked “Can you tell my dog not to ___?”
Well, can you tell your kids not to jump on the sofa, and he / she would remember not to do it again once and for all?
Pets are living beings, even if we can communicate with them, it doesn’t mean we can change their behaviors like inputing commands into computers.
Pet communication allows us to better understand what’s in our pets’ mind, but they still require lots of patience and techiques to train.
Take our new pup, Moby, as an example.
He loves biting and playing with the poopie pads at home.
We told him not to, but he just goes back and mess it up.
I asked him “Moby, do you know it’s wrong to mess up the poopie pad?”
He said, “Yes… but it’s so much fun!”
Me: You have to stop, otherwise, you’ll be going back to your cage. (a punishment)
Moby: Ok…
The next day, we let him out and he started messing up the poopie pad again.
Why?
Because baby dogs are absent minded, and it requires lots of patience to remind Moby not to mess up the pad.
In other words, it is not long the matter of “talking to the pet”, but taking action to change his behaviors.
Now, whenever he start going close to the pad, we would warn him.
And if he messed up the pad, he would be caged.
Overtime, Moby learns that poopie pads are for pee and poo. 
A month ago, we have purchased a chihuahua from a pet shop.
We were thrilled to welcome this new family member of ours, until three days later, the little 3-month old pup passed away suddenly during his sleep.
The vet couldn’t find out a reason for his death but told us that it might be caused by unethical pet shop owners.
What these shops do is to starve these pups so that they always look small and cute. Since they weren’t being fed at all (they were only given gloucose water), their internal organs were demaged.
We tried going back to make complains to the pet shop, but there weren’t proves to show that the problems were caused by them.
It was sad for everyone seeing this little pup leave just after 3 days coming home with us.
And for those who plans to purchase any pups, pay attention. Talk to these pet shops, tell them that you’ll take the pup for a vet check up before purchasing. Most importantly, if you feel that all they want to do is to sell you the dog (fast), there must be problems.
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Anyway, something interesting here is that, the moment we took Zebra (the deceased pup) to the 24 hours pet clinic, Stitch (our older Chi) told us that Zebra never left the house. Which means, during his coma state, he was probably gone already.
8 days after Zebra death, I had a conversation with him, as follows:
Me: Hi! Zebra!!!
Zebra: Mom!!!
Me: How are you? I miss you a lot!
Zebra: Don’t worry, I am ok now. (I could actually felt that he was happy)
Me: Zebra, we got another new pup in the family, called Moby.
Zebra: Yeah, I know, I play with him all the time! (In fact, we asked Stitch and Moby, and they both say that Zebra was around playing with them)
Me: You are home all along?
Zebra: Yep
(The conversation went on), at last, I said: Zebra, we all love you dearly, but if you have to leave, it’s ok to go.
Zebra: (he didn’t say anything and just smiled)
2 days after our conversation, Stitch and Moby told me that Zebra is no longer in the house.
Zebra, I am sure you’ll be much happier in heaven now.
