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HOWEDY Phyllis,

I have a four year old lab mix dog.  Shadow has never been a dog to dig outside but he does have access into the house via doggie door. For some reason Shadow will find a spot in the living room and start digging at the carpet like he’s digging a hole!

SHOWENDS like an anxiHOWESNESS behavior problem, an OCD. Like this: "I posted this to rec.pets.dogs.health without too much success. Things are beginning to get much worse day by day and the vets seem unable to help. http://www.oofus.com/pix/PoorRufusMed.WMV http://www.oofus.com/pix/PoorRufusSmall.WMV" THAT’S AN OCD. His owner CAUSED IT by MISHANDLING and ABUSING his dog according to the BEST advice of HOWER Gang Of Lying Dog Abusing Punk Thug Cowards And ACTIVE LONG TERM INCURABLE MENTAL CASES and ASYLUM ESCAPEES.  He started this in our old house and he would only dig near or in the same spot in one room of the house.  I was always having to vacuum strands because it was sort of a loopy carpet and after a dig there were always lots of loose strands.

You can break that behavior NEARLY INSTANTLY if you know HOWE. I’m surprised he never broke deeper down to the padding.

That’ll come. We recently moved to a new house.  I was hoping whatever he was going for in the older house was not a problem in the new one.

The digging is an anxiHOWESNESS behavior problem. All behavior problmes are caused by mishandling. Wrong, he’s now picked a spot here and goes at it.

Right. Just breaking the digging won’t solve the underlying CAUSE of the behavior. THAT’S HOWE COME it’s imperative to do all the exercises in your FREE copy of The Puppy Wizard’s FREE WWW Wits’ End Dog Training Method Manual and ASK The Amazing Puppy Wizard if you need any additional FREE heelp. I always fuss at him to stop digging

Right. That’ll INCREASE anxiHOWESNESS and reinforce the problem. to let him know its wrong

Dogs is DUMB ANIMALS. They don’t know right from wrong. Trying to tell a dog "NO!" is criminally insane. The Amazing Puppy Wizard has PROVEN that. but is there something else I can do?

INDEEDY. TIA

You won’t be gettin no advice from HOWER dog lovers… Phyllis

Cure OCD Behaviors NEARLY INSTANTLY Using PRAISE: "OCD Success In One Day," Puzzle. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Bad Dogs May Be Sad Dogs Researcher studying canine compulsive disorder MONDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthScoutNews) – – Is your dog bad to the bone? It could be he has a condition called canine compulsive disorder. It can cause unexplainable, repetitive behaviors such as tail chasing, snapping at the air, excessive licking, chewing with an empty mouth, and monotonous barking without any change in volume or intonation. About 2 percent of dogs have canine compulsive disorder, says Andrew Luescher, the director of Purdue University’s Animal Behavior Clinic. The disorder can be so severe that it affects the dog’s daily living. For example, he says, one dogwas so distracted by its own shadow that it stopped drinking water.

It’s much higher than our good doctor supposes. It’ll be another fifteen years before the scientists understand the full ramifications of stress on behavior and health. "Things are beginning to get much worse day by day and the vets seem unable to help. http://www.oofus.com/pix/PoorRufusMed.WMV http://www.oofus.com/pix/PoorRufusSmall.WMV" THAT’S an OCD. It’s similar to what professor SCRUFF SHAKE’S little dog Maxie The Magnificent FuriHOWESLY Obsessive Compulsive Masturbator does when he misses his daily five miles of bicycle chasing exercise to control his HYPERACTIVITY. Strange behaviors caused by the disorder are often misdiagnosed as neurological problems.

Yeah. Like janet boss’s declawed kat attacking her every time she punishes her dogs. The NEUROLOGIST is treating her "seizure" activity with valium. The longer the behaviors are allowed to continue, the more difficult treatment can be, Luescher says.

NO. The "problem" is caused by mishandling. Stop mishandling the dog and use the non force non confrontational scientific and psychological techniques taught in your FREE copy of my FREE Wits’ End Dog Training Method manual and you’ll break any behavior problem in a few minutes over a couple of days, maybe less. Maybe INSTANTLY. HOWEDY People, Here’s an account of a dog who’d been involved in a traumatic HOWES invasion and is now Ooops! WAS barking uncontrollably. I’m countin on 100% success in two days. Care to stake your life, career, and reputation that I won’t cure this OCD behavior BEFORE three days are up??? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text —— Original Message —– To: Jerry Howe Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 Dear Jerry, have had a really good read of your manual and have started a few of your suggestions already- and yes!! success in one day Crash has ALWAYS stolen things for attention: socks, jocks, pens, soft toys you want it and she’s got it yet to day using your distract/ praise method we actually made some progress in the sock nicking dept. I have to say she is generally v. well behaved , but your suggestion to praise her very time she looks at us is going down a treat, she is v. ppl orientated anyway and she’s had a constant stream of good/clever/beautiful girls coming in her direction -the instant result of which she has not once harassed the cats today (a sure fire way to get attention, she doesn’t hurt them, just annoys the shit out of them until they get up and move or scratch her) however, she still is barking at little things.

Praise her. We have never ignored her when she barks (ever since she was tiny) we always get up and check what she’s barking at tell her "good girl" and then "that’s enough" (her release command). she always stops when I say "enough" but my problem is that

NOPE. That’s the problem! YOU GOT TO SAY IT EVERY TIME, or it don’t work…. Is THAT training? NOPE… Training is supposed to control the behavior automatically, as you like it. Too much, too little, no problem. Just train the pup to respond as you’d prefer. You’d prefer her not to bark, follow the technique and there’ll be no more barking. But telling her to STOP, is only perpetuating your NEEDING to tell her "enough." Don’t improvise on the technique, because "just telling her ENOUGH" is NOT in the method, and WILL cause anxiety about the situation and put you at odds with your pup. Use distraction and praise till the behavior is extinguished instead of stopping the behavior by forced control, i.e., "enough." Even though you’re not saying it in a scolding way, you’re still arguing with your dog. since that guy was stalking me she barks at the tiniest sound,

Praise first, tell her it’s O.K., and then interrupt further barking with distraction and praise, calling her as a default should the distraction / praise fail, and then RELEASE her to attempt another bark if that’s her desire, so you may break that attempt using distract/praise till the behavior is properly extinguished. That way you can train her to only bark enough to alert you when something disturbs her. Then you can train her to not bark at all but to come get you to say there’s sumpthin up… the neighbors across the street coming home,

Praise first, then tell her it’s friends, more praise, next bark distract / praise and LET HER WORK THROUGH the problem till it’s extinguished and then generalize it in other areas. When she looks like she’s about to bark but hasn’t YET, PRAISE THAT and prepare to interrupt her next bark following the VARIABLE distraction and praise technique. the cat in the kitty litter,

EZ. Same same. Every thing is same same. If you can’t envision the sameness of a problem, give me a holler and we’ll look at it from every angle till we see HOWE’S best to deal with it. You’re better off to momentarily avoid or even ignore a problem RATHER than jump into an issue you’re not prepared to PROPERLY EXTINGUISH. That’s HOWE bad habits and OCD’s are caused. Like this one. some one walking on the other side of the street,

Relax. You’re walkin down your own street, every thing is O.K. friends and you’re not going to pull back on her lead to force control, you’ll continue as you desire and simply interrupt any inappropriate action or thought with distract/praise for 5-15 seconds. she only reacts like this when I’m in bed

No problem. The OBJECTIVE of training is to have the behaviors you desire and extinguish those you don’t. The techniques will break the behaviors as best they can, but some behaviors are going to always be restimulated by the outside sounds or the kat trying to get her goat. Just follow the routine and every behavior will come into control as she learns to not need to respond to every sound and every temptation the kat offers. Should take a couple of days. so it means I’m getting woken any where between 2 and 5 times a night.

Not for long. So long as you don’t get frustrated and holler SHUDDUP! That’ll cause her anxiety and you’re back in the jackpot again. Follow the technique and in one or two nites you should be cuttin Zzzzz’s right through. But that may require a couple nites for you to make a sound distraction and praise, and then if she barks again, you’ll probably need to SILENTLY get up and go to where you’re able to present the sound distraction from opposite of that of the last one from your bed. If you’re in a small bedroom you might be able to snap your fingers on one side of the bed and then the other, depending on the layout. Like say the window is at the foot of the bed and you dog is at your feet standing there 12′ away. You might be able to reach over and snap your fingers from alternate sides of the bed and be all set. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -i’ve tried letting her sleep in the bed room,

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HOWEDY Phyllis,

For some reason Shadow will find a spot in the living room and start digging at the carpet like he’s digging a hole!

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Here’s a couple of The Puppy Wizard’s FREE WWW Wits’ End Dog Training Method Manual Students tellin you HOWE they done it EZ GENTLY NEARLY INSTANTLY and FOR FREE: schreef inbericht You’ll get ALL the INFORMATION you need in your FREE copy of The Puppy Wizard’s FREE WWW Wits’ End Dog Training Method Manual. You’ll be taught some general exercises to calm and relax your dog and give him the direct attention he NEEDS in only a few minutes every other day, and you’ll learn HOWE to use distraction and praise to EXXXTINGUISH the HABITUAL aspect of this DIS-EASE.

My dog (a 1 year old Yellow Lab) was biting his tail at the root (Vet said his anal gland was blocked, and was causing an itch). After squeezing it, he still wouldn’t stop biting his tail. The vet advised a neck-funnel (don’t know wat you US-guy’s call those) so he couldn’t reach his butt. I hate those things, i think they will drive a dog nuts. I tried the wits end method. (difficult to read such a long textfile if English is not your native language) Luckily this is without all the "HOWE’s" etc.so at least it’s readable for somebody like me. The minute he started to bite i trew my key’s next to him on the floor, and praised him (he stopped biting and looked up when he heard the sound) I did this 7 times, after that the tailbiting completely stopped. Just give the wits end method a try. One of the possible downloadlocations is http://www.doggydoright.com/id3.html Hennie van Dalen www.chello.nl/~h.vandalen11 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Both my dogs at some stage have licked a spot somewhere on their bodies and I have always managed to train them to stop. In all cases there was nothing wrong that licking would have helped (Roz has had cut pads, stitches in her belly and skin itrritations, all tempting her to lick), none of their licking has been due to any allergies . When I see the dog licking more than normal I look at the spot to see whats there and decide if a vet appointment is needed or to wait and see, keeping a close eye. To stop the licking I distract the dog and give it some friendly banter, when it starts licking again I repeat, usually after about 4 times the dog stops, for the moment at least, if it starts again then repeat, before long the dog has no more desire to lick that spot at all.

The same thing worked with my lab licking/chewing problem too. He had an itch due to blocked anal glands and started chewing and licking his tail at the root. After the glands were squeezed, and the itch was gone he still wouldn’t stop. (because the place he chewed raw was itching) After some training (roughly the same methode as yours) he stopped. — Hennie van Dalen www.chello.nl/~h.vandalen11 www.chello.nl/~h.vandalen11/fotografie/doggy-pictures/ RTFM is age-old computer lingo…. It stands for "Read The F***ing Manual" I used the manual and it works very good! But it is a long text to read (76 pages printed on A4-size paper) My lab is 1year old now, and teaching him something new takes about 30minutes  (depending on what to teach offcourse) My other dog (a 7year old staffordshire terrier-mix) is a bit slower in learning, but he is used to me calling him a "bad dog"whenever he did something i didn’t want him to do, or  it might be the age. Sometimes it looks like Sam (the lab) WANTS to learn something new: he wants me to bring along the can filled with washers whenever we go for a walk. It is a very "humane" way of teaching: the dog is allways a "good dog", and never a "bad dog" There is nu punishment or prong-collars involved. For a fact i tought him to heel in 15min’s without beeing on a leach at-all !!! When he spotted a dog, he used to run towards it, but now i tought him to "ask permission" first, and to my surprise it worked! My dogs never went to puppy-training (lucky for them), maybe this helped too. Manual can be found at http://www.doggydoright.com/id3.html — Hennie van Dalen www.chello.nl/~h.vandalen11 www.chello.nl/~h.vandalen11/fotografie/doggy-pictures/

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Jerry, I am forever in your debt. The system you have created for training dogs is absolutely amazing! I can’t wait until the new version is available for human children! Thank you for your service to humanity!

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