[Space Cowboy]

Originally Posted by primetime212

take matters into your own hands

I do. I'm always getting yelled at for having a pile of computers in my workshop waiting to be fixed. Problem is I do it for free .. I just luv workin on electronics. Some people buy me pizza which I appreciate but most don't have much money so I just like to see them smile when they see how good their computer works.

It's a throw away world we live in now.

[Alex Ethridge]

No problem; It's just random anyway.

You can actually house-train a dog in less than a week; but, it takes constant attention and no failure on your part to be consistent. It's called crate training. I will not take the time to explain it to you in detail; but, I'll give you the general idea. Brace yourself; it sounds cruel. But, it is far less cruel than dragging it out over weeks.

You put the dog into a small crate. The dog sees that crate as his den and instinctively not poop in his den. This is why YOU must be consistent. You cannot delay your part so long that he ever poops in the den as this will confuse the dog about where he is to poop.

You keep the dog in the crate until he has to go to do his business; then you take him out to a place in the yard where you want him to go. He does his business and then you play with him for a half hour or so. Then you put him bach into the crate.

This process is repeated until the dog associates pooping in a certain place with the reward of attention and play.

Some dogs can be fully trained in as little as two days; but, with a four-month-old, it may take a few days longer.

Your part is to be consistent and especially do not fail and let him poop in his den.

[Space Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Alex Ethridge

No problem; It's just random anyway.

You can actually house-train a dog in less than a week; but, it takes constant attention and no failure on your part to be consistent. It's called crate training. I will not take the time to explain it to you in detail; but, I'll give you the general idea. Brace yourself; it sounds cruel. But, it is far less cruel than dragging it out over weeks.

You put the dog into a small crate. The dog sees that crate as his den and instinctively not poop in his den. This is why YOU must be consistent. You cannot delay your part so long that he ever poops in the den as this will confuse the dog about where he is to poop.

You keep the dog in the crate until he has to go to do his business; then you take him out to a place in the yard where you want him to go. He does his business and then you play with him for a half hour or so. Then you put him bach into the crate.

This process is repeated until the dog associates pooping in a certain place with the reward of attention and play.

Some dogs can be fully trained in as little as two days; but, with a four-month-old, it may take a few days longer.

Your part is to be consistent and especially do not fail and let him poop in his den.

He had parvo and all his stools were liquid and I don't think he had much bladder control. We have the kong and a ton of other stuff. We even buy him special bones from the butcher. He just likes chewing on Mama's things? Like pillows or whatever is left laying around. He seems to know better than to mess with my stuff. We are shopping for a crate but I really think he needs something industrial strength and don't have allot of cash. I saw one for 100 bucks but It don't look all that great to me? This doberman is really strong !! My buddy said we could make one but Mama wants it in the house in the winter even though my garage is insalated and stays warm. Right now I put a 10 ft chain in the garage and he's doing really well. When he had free rome of the garage he would poop and pee all over. But now he's not. We had a huge crate but with the parvo and all, he would have the liquid stools then in the morning he would be covered in it and I'd have to give him a shower.

The only times he goes in the house now (pee only) is when he's mad at Mama. He looks right at her and goes for it. It really doesn't happen much .. maybe once a week if that.

He's getting better .. I love the stupid mutt .. he's a great companion. he just turned 7 months old. He is VERY huge and VERY strong with paws like a horse. In fact I may start having to feed him hay

P.S. How do you stop him from digging? I don't care about the yard I don't have anyways. Just getting tired of filling up these massive holes ..

Have a great day

[Laura87]

If he pees when he looks at Mama, it's call submissive urination - he knows she's the top dog and he's very respectful of that.

My dog did it too - it's stops as confidence grows

[Space Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Laura87

If he pees when he looks at Mama, it's call submissive urination - he knows she's the top dog and he's very respectful of that.

My dog did it too - it's stops as confidence grows

Thanks Laura .. I'll tell her that .. don't know if it will make her feel any better but it's worth a shot.

I did promise not to bring home anymore puppys.

My Dad reminded me a made that promise to him along time ago

[cheese]

What prerequisites are required to be on the "geek squad" ?

Ive seen their little minivan driving around at the mall near the best buy, kinda funny.

[Alex Ethridge]

I guess a temp of about 98.6.

[CarlssonMB]

Originally Posted by Alex Ethridge

I guess a temp of about 98.6.

thats rich

[I Fix 4 U]

Yes, Geek Squad guys are horrible. I'm way younger than most those guys and im better than most.

[tdi_veedub]

I don't know about geek squad, but I have seen some off the shoddy jobs done by Future Shop, and Staples .... not pretty ....

[Whiteninja89]

They are rediculous. I looked at the geek squad site: $129 to install software?? All you have to do is pop in a cd and press yes a few times.
$229 to install an operating system? That's not including the price of the OS either, it's insane.

[CarlssonMB]

They are just taking advantage of people who have no idea what to do and don't want to learn

[tdi_veedub]

Originally Posted by Whiteninja89

They are rediculous. I looked at the geek squad site: $129 to install software?? All you have to do is pop in a cd and press yes a few times.
$229 to install an operating system? That's not including the price of the OS either, it's insane.

Yikes!! What a bunch of crooks. Just because someone doesn't know much doens't mean you can rip them off. I charge a flat $100 to do an OS install and 30$/hour for everything else, and those are Canadian prices. I think that is reasonable.

[I Fix 4 U]

Ima kid and nomatter what it is I just charge $20 and hour and they like me to fix their computer b/c every1 else costs $60/hr here.

[teengeekgrrl]

I've actually helped my Home Ec teacher with her computer before... but one time the computer wouldn't boot b/c there was a floppy in the floppy drive and the other time she couldn't figure out how to change fonts. I don't really fix people's computers for free or any kind of money because they all hire my dad to do it. lol