Re: Doggy problems


"Melinda Shore" <shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <xg4pi.10147$tj6.6964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
pfoley <pfoley6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The dog
will be much better behaved and more content, if you walk the dog in the
morning, let him go out in the yard during the day and walk the dog again
in
the evening for another 40 minutes. He will be out enough that he
won't
have to pee in the house and will be too tired to get into trouble.

Um, nope.

Look, exercising the dog is always a great idea, and while
it sets up a better circumstance for training it is not the
same thing as training and is not a substitute for training.
Walking the dog will not teach the dog not to jump up on a
little girl. It will not teach the dog not to pee in the
house. And unless the person doing the walking turns the
walk into a training exercise, walking the dog will probably
not even teach the dog to pay attention to the human.

Also, as a dog becomes more fit its energy level will go up,
not down. I have never seen this fail to be the case - not
with dogs, not with horses, and not with humans. Stress and
adaptation. This is basic physiology.
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Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - shore@xxxxxxxxx

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community
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I know, but you left out my part where I told her to include daily training
exercises also.


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