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. :)

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