SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

[denmo83]

Our puppy was in a crate for about the first 3 months we had him. He never took it as a bad thing. It's just where he went.

Our trainer said when you take him out of the crate, the leash and collar go on. Wherever I went, he was 6 feet away. Even in the house and the leash was in the hand. Not on the doorknob, chair or dragging. In the hand.

He went wherever I went. Time to check a chart, I had company. Time to go to the garage, he came with. He watched me do dishes, watch TV etc. If I had to go to the bathroom, I had company.

For the first 6 weeks of training, if he was out of the crate, his leash was on and in my hand.

People ask me how I stopped him from chewing up the house. I said he never did. He never had the opportunity.

Any unwanted behaviour was instantly corrected much in the way a mother canine will correct her pups. Short, sharp, fast and it's over. Nothing personal. On to the next thing.