Porch Poty and Fire Hydrant!!

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The Porch Potty looks like a patch of grass elevated on a white plastic platform. If you live in a second-floor apartment, this means your dog can go the the bathroom on your balcony.
Once a day, the sprinkler in the center of the Porch Potty comes up out of the sod to rinse the grass.

But at this point you may be wondering how this all gets clean after the sprinkler comes up. The Porch Potty has a unique soil-free sod that water and urine flow straight through. The water and urine then go down a drain in any area you choose. You could have it drain to a corner of your yard, a flower bed, or a gutter, for example.

The Porch Potty has the advantage of unmatched convenience, style, and sanitation when it comes to portable dog bathrooms. It is applicable to any situation, whether it is a second-floor apartment or a backyard. It is also more visually appealing than any other kind of portable dog bathroom.

Finally, you can’t beat the automatic clean up when compared with emptying pans of urine required by other models.

Better Than My Lawn!!

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So it makes sense that there is help that can be found to improve the behavior of a dog you are finding hard to train. As ordinary “civilians” when it comes to the overall behavioral patterns of a pet dog, it goes without saying that we will not magically have access to the “button” inside a dog’s mind that makes it behave well, perform tricks or anything else you want it to do. There are professionals who have written books and made DVDs showing helpful tips and hints, and a wealth of websites which do the same.

You may even take your dog to a trainer who will be able to identify ways to get it behaving the way you would like. The expense of doing this makes it something that you may not want to do too regularly, but if all else fails it can be beneficial to you and to your dog.

As humans, we are used to recognising the tone of each other’s voices. We have become so good at this that we almost don’t need to hear a person’s words in order to know what they are saying. A warning tone, a praising tone, a cheerful tone… each is recognisably different to us, and it will be recognisable to your dog too. In this respect, you can teach your dog well by allowing it to recognise what you are saying, without having to teach it a command.

Speaking in the correct tone need not even take practice. Usually, your emotions take control of your tone of voice, and skilled liars have to work to keep their tone even – so allowing your genuine tone to come through should be simple. The dog will come to recognise the cadence of what you say as much as the actual command – and it will be this that they come to associate with good and bad behaviors and their consequences.

Now, certainly, there are times when you will need to be stern with your dog. Sometimes it will exhibit behaviors that you would really rather it did not. Some owners will tend towards the cruel side of things when punishing these behaviors, often punishing their dog with a physical blow. It should be recognised that punishing a dog consistently with physical reprimands will lead simply to either a hostile dog who will lash out without warning, or a lifeless dog which is scared to do anything for fear of reprisal.

There will be times when you need to reprimand your dog physically. A quick tap can often suffice when it is behaving in a threatening manner without good reason. Restraining it by the collar when it goes to attack a person or another animal is fine. But by beating your dog, all you are doing is removing the essential element of all pet-owner relationships – friendship.