Recent content by phaelene

thanks to everyone for the warm greetings and a special "hi" to josephine, my fellow kentuckian! i look forward to learning and sharing a lot on this site.

ditto on sticking with a bathroom/outside schedule and remaining with the dog until he goes, praising him lavishly when he does. my 4 mo old pup never soils his crate, but sometimes when he's in the house he'll urinate a little, even if he was just outside and did so not 15 minutes before! i'm...

i thought i'd posted an introduction when i first joined, but must not have done so in my attempt to take in much of the site--for that, i apologize. hello to all from kentucky (USA). i'm mom to a 4 month old boxer puppy, "oscar." he's fawn with a black mask, white toes and chest, and...

hi from another oscar's mom my oscar is 4 months old tomorrow. we've been in private puppy training for 4 wks, and while that is going pretty well, my oscar is still very much a boxer puppy with a mind of his own. boxers are very independent, intelligent dogs that are also emotionally...