uh we have a Sheltie Collie a miniature Sheltie
do you
yeah it's about oh about six months old
and we're trying we're we we live in an apartment so we don't have a yard so it has to stay stay stay inside and we're having a difficult time trying to train it
how old is it
it's about six months
uh you you're you're in the roughest stages of pet ownership i think
really
but they're supposed to be real intelligent dogs but i guess every one one every one one of them or or every once in a while you get one that's not so intelligent because this one isn't
well
i don't i don't know if that has anything to do with the intelligence really the the the training bit uh i've had dogs through the years right now i've got two
and three cats but
uh and uh my son and daughter-in-law have kind of a Sheltie mix and we watched it this summer for two to three months and it wasn't trained quite fully either
um-hum
and uh but it was a sweet and an intelligent dog
yeah
so how'd y'all how do you what's the best method
i don't know i i'm old fashioned and when i got my my dogs when they when they did something i hollered at them and threw them outside they say that's not the way to do it now but you're just supposed to
right
stand outside with them until they
no just just you put them outside i guess unless you catch catch them in the act
well we're hardly ever at home so it's kind of difficult and
yeah
you know you don't wanna you don't wanna spank it or scare it or anything like that so
no you no you don't wanna do that but uh
yeah we we try to take it
you know it gets it gets frustrating when you take it outside and you know and then it runs right inside and it does it huh
does does does it just wanna sniff around and
does it just wanna sniff around and play when it's outside
yeah a lot of times and you know it it won't it's whole job outside and it comes inside
yeah
have have you praised it and given it a treat maybe when it does something outside
uh yeah we've tried that and uh
you know there's certain spots in the house where he likes to go so and he chews on plants and all that but you know that's natural for a little puppy huh
yeah
that's nothing huh
well it it it'll it'll catch on pretty soon i'll i'll i'll betcha i i have a sixteen year old almost sixteen year old Golden Retriever and she's gone the other way because she's so old she doesn't have much control
oh really
so we're battling with that problem and she still feels good uh she can't hear worth a darn or see very well but she's got a great appetite and she knows we're there by smell
oh that's sad
huh
how old is it
she'll be sixteen in May
man that's sad
and yeah but we can't bear to do anything because she's been our friend for all these years so we're putting up with all her accidents
oh of course not
i couldn't
and the last two nights ago she had diarrhea and so that was a bad one but uh i think we're buying a carpet shampooer this weekend
that is really sad what what's the deal we we try to we're trying to take it on walks now you know
um-hum
and we can't because it's not accustomed to being on a leash
yeah
and so it i mean this dog really feels like it's being killed or something when you try to you know tug on it to walk it i mean it just goes like a mad dog i mean it just jumps up and down and starts yapping and
does it oh
it's you know i mean it's not even close to even being trained on a leash
uh-huh
uh you know maybe you need you can get it signed up this spring or summer for some of the dog obedience classes
um-hum well we've heard bad we've heard some bad things about some of those you know they
sometimes misuse misuse their
license or whatever you know and they treat them bad
oh
well you know where we went we went to the junior college Richland
oh really
and we took my my daughter was living at home then and she took our Golden Retriever or not the Golden Retriever the Norwegian Elk Hound over there and
oh really
it it it's a pretty good class and they did pretty good except this dog is she's just pretty she's not smart so she didn't learn a lot but it i think it calmed her down a little bit and she's used to being around other dogs now
uh-huh
how long did it take
i think it was like a six week program
every what
uh i think it was one night a week for like six weeks and uh you know it was a group class outside
oh really
it was fairly reasonable too
well Sheltie Collies are you know timid and they don't really unless they get used to something they're really nervous and
yeah they're pretty they're usually a high strung dog aren't they
yeah yeah and uh if they're not accustomed to something they they're really scared so
um our our friend has a
