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THE
AUSTRALIAN SILKY TERRIER
The Only
Australian Toy Dog
A dog makes more friends than
man because he wages his tail, not his tongue.
HOUSE
TRAINING.
This is usually
easily done by observing a few golden rules.
Each time your puppy wakes up, take it outside to a grassy
or other absorbent area and wait to see if it empties out if the
pup performs, give it a command word "Get busy", god boy/girl.
the pup will learn to go on command, after some time.
If the pup has emptied out it will probably be safe to bring it in
for an hour or so. Keep doors to adjoining rooms closed.
Take your puppy outside within 3 minutes of each meal.
Full tummies tend to make pups empty out. Pay attention.
Pups circle before they go to the toilet. [Most do anyway].
If you are unable to keep a close eye on the pup use a cage or
crate in the house to confine the pup and observe the above
rules to take the pup out. This works with adult Silky's too.
3 too 5 weeks is needed
to train most animals although many are quicker.
Most dogs empty on something absorbent.
If you have carpet inside and concrete outside,
chances are your pooch prefers the carpet.
Overcome this by providing something absorbent outside a
special toilet training pad, tray of soil piece of carpet you can clean.
"Good Boy" toilet training adds to encourage and discourage areas
are available.
When house training, never punish the animal, it is your fault
for being careless. Punishing often teaches pups to sneak off
and do it out of sight in another room, or behind the lounge.
Work on praise for correct behavior.
Thoroughly clean "wrong" places.
Perfume often repels dogs - try some on the spot.
Dogs tend to return to the same place.
A fully indoor dog can be trained to one place,-
use guides above.
Please make a printout!
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on picture
Hind or help;
This transport BOX is the best, to
toilet train your puppy at Night time.
But please look the door! Bed time 10 pm - UP in the morning 6 am
At the time your
puppy wakes up, take it outside to a grassy place
for doing his business.
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picture !
Work on
praise for correct behavior please!
Next step, Training /
Conformation / Obedience!
There is one area of training
which is advantageous for both Conformation and Obedience.
In Conformation it is called "baiting" , in Obedience it is called
"attention". For those who
are thinking of doing both Conformation and Obedience developing
concentration is the
best place to begin. The Silky naturally has attention which jumps quickly
from sensory
stimuli to stimuli (sights and sounds). Except in certain circumstances
concentration is
short termed. This makes Obedience performance erratic. Although Silky's
can do all the
exercises very well looks better than the one that responses to everything
outside the ring.
Begin by teaching the young hopeful to focus on one spot on the handler's
body on
command. The face works well in both fields. Also teach the dog to follow
with his eyes the
movement of the right hand. Using food is a good way to shape the action
(eyes moving
from anywhere to the face) and to motivate repeating the action When the
pupil performs
correctly the foot is a reward. Eventually move the hand without the foot
in it. At first the
command (word or sound) occurs while the dog is performing (conditioning).
Then it is used before the action. Teach one little step at the time. Eyes
move to the face.
Reward. Eyes move to the face. Command then reward. Eyes move to the face
with no food
in the hand. Reward. And so on until your Silky will turn around and look
at you when
given the command.
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