Recent content by Lynn

I absolutely agree with you!

Try crating him and then taking him out with you. If he doesn’t go then out him back into the crate and try again in a h or two. Eventually he will have to go with you there. The a huge amount of praise and treats !

I have a ten month old and she uses the pee pads 95%of the time. I’m okay with that. I don’t think I would change things up if I were you. You have encouraged and let her go on the pads since tiny and getting rid of them now would not be good. Have you tried putting pads down outside on the...

Welcome! I am researching them as well and can also tell you that they give them a 5/5 for barkers. Love to dig and chase all moving small critters. A little stubborn and hard to house train. You have to be careful with them jumping off anything and doing a lot of stairs. Best to teach them to...

Welcome Natalie! Your pup sounds like a doll! Love her name! I am also very new here and don't have a Dixie yet but thinking seriously about one. Unfortunately I don't think this site is a very active one. Lynn

Hi, gosh I really feel for you. My suggestion would be to hire a professional trainer if at all you can before things get any worse. In the meantime I would try a squirt bottle on him to deter the behaviour. Then I would get yourself a small treadmill so you can exercise both of them. She...

When I first got my little chin he would pee all the time on his blanket in his crate. Then I found out that they had used a blanket for a potty pad for the pups. I switched his bed to the mesh type that are off the ground and put the blanket with pee pads on top of them for him to use. Within a...

Thanks everyone for the encouragement and info! I have three other dogs as well and wonder how much " playing and wrestling" doxies can do and if I should need to worry about this as well? Also, I would teach her to use a ramp off the bed...but am concerned that she may try to follow the...

Welcome Jon and help me if you can Hi, I am new here too and have put deposit down on a mini smooth. I am so concerned that I am going to be in for alot of heartache that I am really having a hard time making up my mind weither to get her or not. I am seriously questioning the ethics of...