May 16th, 2013
By Eric Letendre
There is a company in Woodland Hills, CA that operates as a doggy CSI.
If your dog takes a dump and you don’t pick it up, this company will take a sample of your dog’s poop and track you down.
How do they do it?
Through the dog’s DNA.
Poo Prints West is the company and they use the same DNA testing that police do to hunt down criminals.
This is how it works:
A residential community signs up for the service. It requires its tenants to have their dogs swabbed for a DNA sample, then when some “evidence” is discovered, a nickel-sized sample would be tested.
Right now it is mostly used in apartment complexes and home owner associations.
Anyway. . .
. . . I’m glad I taught my dogs to go “on command.”
I give my dogs the “Get busy” signal and the floodgates open and the best part – this is not that difficult to teach.
Moral of the story.
Train your dog to go #1 and #2 on command. It really makes your life easier on cold rainy days or when the Doggy DNA Team comes to your town.
The Housetraining Handbook has everything you need to know about housetraining and more. The best part is that you can get it and other popular dog training courses during the Amazing Dog Training Man’s Spring Sale.
Here’s where to go NEXT:
All the best,
Eric
July 23rd, 2012
By Eric Letendre
Got this email over the weekend:
“Hi Eric, Love your emails. Very informative and fun to read but I have one problem. I have a little four month old yorkie that my husband and I adore but she has one problem. She still poos inside the house. We need her 2 poo outside, any suggestions?”
No fun having a yorkie that poos in the house.
This would be described as a behavior problem by many of the dog training “experts.”
Let me make this very clear – This is NOT a behavior problem. Your dog peeing and pooing is a normal, natural function that all living creatures need to perform.
When your dog pees or poos in the house it is a LOCATION PROBLEM.
Sorry for the all the captial letters but I really want you to understand this because when it is called a behavior problem it is often lumped in with bad behavior and bad behavior is always viewed through the lens of punishment.
When a dog poos inside it is not bad behavior and a dog should not be punished.
In fact, punishment can quickly backfire and cross associations can develop.
A cross association is when your dog makes a negative association with your presence, not the event you were punishing for.
For example: A dog pees in the house. The owner gets mad drags the dog over to the urine and stuffs his nose in it and yells “BAD DOG.”
The dog now learns to hold it when the owner is around. They hold it in the house and they hold it when they are outside with the owner.
The dog has to eventually go so guess what the dog does?
He hides.
He finds a place where no one can see him and he pees behind the couch, under the table anywhere he can’t be seen.
Instead, we need to think of this as a location problem and apply the M.U.T.T. Method as discussed in Friday’s email.
So if your dog still pees or poos inside the house, remember that housetraining is like real estate:
Location, location, location.
Teach your dog the right location and your dog will be housetrained faster than you can say “Amazing Dog Training Man.”
BTW – The Housetraining Handbook is included on The Dog Training Inner Circle which shows you the step-by-step method to teach your dog or puppy the right location.
Get all the details here:
All the best,
Eric
November 4th, 2011
By Eric Letendre
Cold weather is not to far off. Now is the time to teach your dog to “Get busy” on command. This video will help:
P.S. Most surveys rank housetraining as one of the top ten dog behavior problems. If you’re having housetraining problems with your dog check out the Housetraining Handbook.
June 23rd, 2011
By Eric Letendre
Training your dog to pee and poop on command is a must here in New England. You see, winters get real cold and it tends to rain a lot in the spring. It is no fun standing there freezing or standing in the middle of a down pour waiting for your best friend to do his business.
Much better to run outside, give the command “Get busy” and have it all wrapped up in a few seconds. This is also very easy to teach your dog and this video will show you how.
May 5th, 2011
By Eric Letendre
One of the funniest moments in my life, a time that I literally fell on the ground laughing my head off, happened one hot summer day on a dairy farm in Maine when I was about ten years old.
My mom is from Maine and we were waaaay up north by the Canadian border visiting some of our cousins.
My brother and I were walking around the farm when he felt the urge.
He asked me where he could pee and I said anywhere you want.
I don’t think there was another house or person for miles around. My brother, not being familiar with farms, did not know that the little wire that kept all the cows in the pasture was electrified.
He looked around, unzipped his fly and let it rip. Keep Reading…
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Eric Letendre is a professional dog trainer from the United States. For more than 20 years, he has been developing dog training techniques that have worked for dog owners all over the world. Eric operates from a home office or a laptop while traveling and draws on his experience and passion for dog training to show others how to develop a dog that is truly “Man’s Best Friend”.
Eric is the author of numerous reports, the E-Book “101 Ways to Hack Your Dog’s Behavior,” “The Amazing Dog Training Man Book,” and produced and stars in his DVD “Secrets of a Professional Dog Trainer.”
