How to Untrain your Dog

As a practical expediency, many dogs are trained to relieve themselves in the house because of weather conditions or schedules or apartment living. When it becomes desirable to relocate that habit to the outdoors, frustration enters. A dog can and does hold out for hours of walking to return to the confines of the house to perform.

Instead of walking the dog the interminable hours necessary, there is the successful albeit indelicate trick of inserting two wooden matches rectally when you reach the area selected for the dog to defecate. Of course, this should be at the time you expect the dog normally to defecate in the house. If in a few minutes you get no response, insert two more. When the desired results are achieved give the dog a treat immediately, pet it, and let your approval over the event be obvious. A word of warning: if the neighbors see you they may send two men in white coats.

Let's consider the physical examinations that dogs should have: the exam you should do at home, the one your veterinarian does, and the one a specialist does. The quality of the examination is not proportion all to the knowledge of the examiner - it's the application of the knowledge that is all important.