T&T: Dogs on board

[Frank Hartle Jr.]

  >I think that many dogs get on a boat and believe that the entire boat
  >is an "inside" area - even when when running around out on the decks.
  >This gets in the way of their housetraining and they just won't go.



   I ask a fellow boater who happens to be a professional dog trainer for
advice on teaching 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 Alpha should urinate at the spot on which you would like
them to relieve themselves.  This may sound crude but it worked.  A friend
of ours who has 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.

 Frank
LUV'N LIFE
47' Atlantic