This is good news, you are on the right track with the tethering.
I have trained all my dogs this way and they are all reliable and will
actually come get me when they want out regardless of where I am in the
house. Keep up the work with the tethering and the kenneling when you can't
watch her. It will only get better if you do.
Celeste
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote in message
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OK OK I'm gonna let some of you say I told you so but
just this once. ;-)
Ruby is doing much better with the housebreaking. She
has only peed in the house once during the last 2 weeks
and that was after she had asked my wife to go out, and
my wife didn't take her out (figuring she could wait just
a few more minutes to finish something)
What I think got her started on the road to housebreaking
was me leashing her to myself for the weekend, a couple
weeks ago, and us keeping her in her kennel when she wasn't
on the leash. Ruby did not like the leashing - at first she tried
fighting it (but no dog can chew steel chain) but within a few
hours she became resigned to it. One thing I think helped it
sink in was we went over to my parents for dinner and I took
her along - the entire time, still leashed to me. I think that
by late Sunday she was actually kind of liking it, in a way.
I don't think that the logic, though, was "I stop peeing in
the house and they will let me go" I actually think it was
more along the lines that the leashing changed our relationship
in some manner. Where I really noticed
this (and some other people have too) is in how she interacts
with me, verses my wife and the kids. She doesen't seem to
ever initiate play with me, while she will with my wife. And
it might be just my imagination but it seems like when I'm in
the room, she's always kind of keeping an eye on what I'm
doing. It's not a fear thing, it's more like "the boss is in the
room, I better watch what I'm doing" And, when that happened
and it became clear to her that I did NOT like the peeing in
the house, I think that is what got her to stop doing it.
It's too soon to know for sure but it's definitely far better than
it was.
Ted