Wednesday, November 26, 2008

How do you teach an Iggy to sit?


You put a belly band on him! Part of my housetraining method for the boys is for them to wear a belly band. It is a piece of fabric with an absorbant layer in the middle and fastens around their waist with velcro. If they pee, it gets wet and usually is a deterrant. If nothing else, it keeps them from peeing on your furniture, curtains and such. IG's are not horrid for marking ( I found Min Pins to be worse ) but they do mark and can be trained out of it.
So Monkey is in the process of learning not to mark but is not enjoying the belly band. He is convinced that this medieval torture device prevents him from walking, so he spent most of the evening seated in one spot and avoiding eye contact with the "Evil Momma-lady".
Monkey is also getting better on the stairs. He can go down all by himself but isn't too sure how to get himself started going up. He seems to think he has to take a run at it and that he's too little to reach the bottom stair with his back feet. Silly Monkey!

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