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8 Easy Ways to Train Your Puppy to Be Obedient in Short Time

8 Easy Ways to Train Your Puppy to Be Obedient in Short Time My neighbor's kid has a dog that sits at the kitchen door and waits every single time. Doesn't beg, doesn't whine, doesn't lean on your leg. Just sits, with a tennis ball at his feet, until somebody opens the door. I asked her how long that took. She said it started with him being a bad dog. I got the story later over a beer, and the short version is that it took about eight months of the boring kind of work, not the showy kind. Nobody filmed any of it. Nobody posted a thirty-second video of the dog going from wild to perfect. It was just a kid in a garage with a bag of treats and a dog who did not care about the bag of treats. That story has been sitting in my head for a month, because it's the honest version of a title like this one, and the honest version is more useful than the promise. Before we get into it, I should say what "short time" actually means here, because I think it gets misunder...
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How do dogs feel when they poop everywhere in the room?

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 How do dogs feel when they poop everywhere in the room? Introduction You’re not the only one. Dogs poop. Dogs poop. They poop everywhere. And they can make all kinds of sounds when they do it, too: happy barks, sad whines, angry growls. But why do dogs think to themselves "I need to go number two now"? And why does it happen so often? You might be thinking that dogs are just like us—that their minds work like ours do and that they feel emotions in the same way we do. You might even be imagining your own dog pooping at this very moment and thinking about how he's feeling happy or sad or hungry or angry as he does so! Well guess what: you're wrong on both counts! Your dog doesn't know why he's pooping; nor does he care about what emotions were going through his mind before he decided to relieve himself on the living room rug (which is where I'm writing this right now). Dogs are different from humans—but not in ways most people think! Some dogs will poop eve...
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