T&T: Dogs on board

[Frank Hartle Jr.]

> I believe there's a certain technique needed to train the dog for boat
> business.  It involves helping them to understand the difference between
> "inside" and "outside" when on the boat.  I think that many dogs get on a
> boat and believe that the entire boat is an "inside" area - even when
> running around out on the decks.  This gets in the way of their
> housetraining and they just won't go.
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> Jeffrey Siegel
> M/V aCappella
> DeFever 53PH
> W1ACA/WDB4350
> Castine, Maine





>    I ask  a fellow boater who happens to be a professional dog trainer for
> advice on training our Shih Tzu's to go on the deck.  He advised that  our
> dogs would mimic the pack leader.  The human of the pack that is viewed by
> the dogs as the Alpa  should urinate at the spot on which you would like
> them to relieve themselves.  This may sound crude but it worked.  Another
> friend who had a Labrador that he claims once held it for 20 hours during a
> bad storm also says that his dog took to his designated area immediately.
> The Admiral always claims I am an animal, this was my chance to act like
> one.


   Frank
  LUV'N LIFE
  47' Atlantic

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