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You may have heard that puppy toilet training is a difficult process because some puppies can be very stubborn. Indeed house training can be a very challenging task especially if you do not have enough understanding on what puppy house training is all about or what methods or techniques are effective in achieving positive training results.

To make puppy toilet training easy, you might find the following toilet training tips useful:

Understand your puppy’s need to eliminate
Start training as soon as you bring your puppy home. Know that a puppy needs to eliminate about six times a day and cannot “hold it” until he is about 12 weeks of age. Thus he must be taken outside after he eats or drinks and frequently throughout the day (at least every two hours).

Regular schedule
Putting a puppy in a regular feeding schedule makes house training easier. Feed your pup two to three times at the same time everyday so that he’ll develop a habit of eliminating at consistent times.

Pick a bathroom
Take your pup to the same spot every time he urinates/defecates. This will make him associate the spot with the deed. In case of accident, clean the spot as soon as possible to prevent him from urinating/defecating in that area again. Leave the soiled rags in the bathroom spot because the scent will make him recognize where he is supposed to eliminate.

Praise
Praise your dog when he eliminates outside. You can even give him a treat for a job well done but remember to do this right after he has finished eliminating.

With patience, along with the mentioned puppy toilet training tips, you will definitely come up with a reliably house trained four-legged friend.

German shepherd who recovered the last survivor of the September 11, 2001 attacks is to be cloned. His owner, James Symington, a former police officer from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada entered an essay writing contest about why his dog should be cloned.

Trakr, the 15 year old German shepherd suffering from degenerative neurological disorder, was the subject of a contest-winning essay about why Trakr should be cloned that was written by Symington. Trakr and Symington received Humanitarian Service Awards from Jane Goodall for their heroics at Ground Zero. Symington is now an actor of film and television, sometimes credited as Peter James.

BioArts International sponsored the essay-writing contest. Five more dogs are to be cloned by its Best Friends Again program. While Trakr will receive free replication, the other dogs will have to participate in an auction with a starting bid of US$100,000.

BioArts is going to send the DNA of the 6 dogs to Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul, South Korea. A Sooam researcher said that the dog should be born in November.

Michael Ray Howard, convicted of killing 13 puppies by tying them in a plastic bag and tossing them in a dumpster, among other crimes, has been sentenced to prison.

In December a bag containing 14 puppies was found in a dumpster outside a Salt Lake City, UT, Hancock Fabric store. Only one one of the puppies survived and has since been adopted by Rita Woodward, an employee of Hancock Fabrics and one of the women who found the puppies.

He was charged with 14 counts of animal cruelty and one third-degree felony. Initially, Howard pleaded not guilty even though he did admit he stuffed the tiny, 3-5 week old Jack Russell mix puppies, in a heavy trash bag to suffocate, left them outside overnight and the next day figuring he’d accomplished killing them all, threw the bag of puppies in a Riverdale dumpster. He changed his plea to guilty the following day.

Howard, also convicted of illegal possession of a controlled substance and an admitted methamphetamine user/addict was sentenced to serve to serve 13 years in prison for the class A misdemeanor counts of aggravated animal cruelty, six months in prison for a class B misdemeanor animal cruelty charge, and up to five years in prison for the drug charge. All sentence will run together which in reality means about a 5 year sentence and probably even less time will actually be served.

Prosecutors said the crime was committed with “extreme depravity” and noted it was a touchstone for the passage of Henry’s Law, which increased the penalty for extreme cases of animal cruelty to a felony. That bill was passed by the Legislature earlier this year.

It’s gratifying to see someone who acted with such wanton disregard for life to actually get a prison sentence for his heartless cruelty. I applaud Judge Roger Dutson for taking this crime seriously.

What dismays me is the comments from people that are with the news story about this. So many people whining and griping about the sentence being too harsh and the usual ‘it’s only puppies, not people’, stuff like that. When are people going to realize that when anyone acts with this wanton disregard for life, even animal life, it takes little to nothing for this to carry over to violence and abuse against people.

This is a proven fact!! It’s not a hypothesis. That’s just one of the reasons that people strive so hard to get animal abuse laws toughened for abusers. People who kill, main and abuse animals need to be taken very seriously and their crimes need to be punished harshly. Get real people! The nest time it could be your pet…. or child… when good old Michael Ray Howard gets hopped up on drugs.