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She is new to my home and 8 weeks old. We have puppy training pads for her but she wont use them. I have never seen her use the bathroom and have caught her occasionally peeing on the carpet. Does anyone have tips on how to potty train her.
Kristen W did a pretty good job, but I disagree with scolding for bad potty.
You cannot scold a pup for something they’ve done in the past. Unless you watch her piddle on the carpet, you cannot correct her behavior. If you ARE catching her in the act, it’s better to calmly pick her up mid-wee, and head to the door.
Scolding the potty can make her become afraid to go wee in front of you, and this can set potty training back a LOT because she’ll try her hardest to pee where you cant’ see her. Behind furniture, etc. So, praise and treat good potty like they picked winning lottery numbers. Take her out OFTEN, every 30 mins or so in the beginning. Don’t let her get distracted outside. It’s not play time, it’s business time. Set her up for success, be consistent, be PATIENT, and make sure you clean up inside wee with a enzyme cleanser.
Jul 18, 2010 | | potty train
The money is in the list. It is the mantra of each and every Internet Marketer in each and every niche. Whether you market on social network sites, forums, groups, or across the Internet the money is in the list. Without a list you don’t have a ready-made customer group.
Research shows that it takes 4-7 times of contact before people are ready to trust and purchase from you. How can you gain that trust if you can’t follow up with your customer?
You have to develop that list. You must engage people who come to your site and encourage them to leave their name and email address so that you can contact them again and again. The money is in the follow up and you can’t follow up without a list.
Here are 8 simple changes to make to your site that will increase the number and quality of people who willingly leave you their contact information and ask you to follow up!
1.Make the opt-in box to your ezine obvious. You’d be surprised at the number of people who complain about the lack of subscribers to their ezine and yet, when you visit the site the box is no-where to be found. Be sure to make the box obvious both on the page and either in the navigation side bar or in a pop up.
2.Audio and video components are becoming more and more popular. People no longer see this technology as exciting and new but expect it. Audio will help your customer to “see” the opt-in box. Conversion rates for sites with audio report an increase of 30% or more compared to when they didn’t have audio directing the reader to the opt-in. Readers like to be connected to people. Audio makes you more real. Audio gives direction. If your reader doesn’t take the time to read the directions or the benefits to your ezine they will most likely hear it.
3.Headlines are important in everything related to marketing and this is no exception. People skim what they read and the headline to your ezine might be the only thing they read about the ezine. Give them something to remember. Don’t use “Free Newsletter! or worse Sign up for our mailing list.” Boring! Instead list a benefit of your newsletter with some mystery: Finally! Keep the Weight Off For Good! or Insider Secrets to Blast Your Sales Off This Year!
4.A hearty description with powerful adjectives and adverbs will help to convince people that leaving their name and email is not a mistake. You will not spam. You will send content rich high-quality information to them to help them solve their problems. Aim for a description between 15 and 30 words. You can even include the description in your email signature line. Answer the question “What’s” in it for me? Be sure to follow through on the promise!
5.In your opt-in box ask for their First Name and Primary Email Address. If you ask for just their name you may get first, last or a combination of both sometimes not in the right order. Since your autoresponder will use this information to personalize your email you want it to be right. is worse than addressing an email to Hi Smith, John! The second part of the puzzle is to ask for their primary email. You may even want to elaborate on that topic since many people have throw-away emails they use in Hotmail or Yahoo. Your ezine may never be seen or worse end up in the junk mail box. Just asking for the primary address often gets you the right information.
6.Be sure to have a “Subscribe Here” or “Send My Subscription” or “Send My Free Information!” button. CHANGE the common “Submit” button. To quote a famous marketer “people do not want to submit; they do want free information!”
7.Do you value your privacy? Have you been hit with too much spam? So have your subscribers. Assure them up front that you do not spam, do not sell their address and will not post it on the billboard along the highway. Don’t make them click a link to read your privacy statement you will lose them right there. If they have to click through to read an entire page about how you will protect their privacy you probably have something to hide or so they’ll think.
8.Do you like receiving more than you asked for? So do your subscribers! Give them a free report or a 5-week ecourse or even a free ebook within the topic of your niche. Give away some of your best stuff. You will catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Be sure that the information is within your niche though. People who are searching for information on dog health don’t care about how to potty train a ferret.
You now have 8 of the most important and simplest steps you can take to increase the opt-in rate on your website. They won’t do a bit of good unless you implement them. So go now and make a few tweaks and see how well you do!
Jo Han Mok
http://www.articlesbase.com/email-articles/8-simple-steps-to-increase-your-optin-rate-77414.html
Jul 17, 2010 | | potty train
My brother just turned three in July and we’ve been trying to potty train him since he was about two. We started him when he was one and a half and of course didn’t work. We tried putting him on the potty every 30 min with underwear but it hasn’t seem to work. I just need some answers on what to do because nothing is working.
Definately a reward system. find his favorite small candy something like m&m’s, skittles, smarties etc. You reinforce the good behavior like this. "if you sit on the potty you get 2 candies, if you leave some peepee or poo then you get 5 candies." They pick up the reward concept very very quickly.
The biggest thing to remember is that you can’t force a child to potty train. If they don’t want to sit on the potty to try then don’t force them to, just tell them okay then no candy. Keep in mind that a child will have the urge to go roughly 30 minutes after eating a meal, it’s just how the body works.
With the fact that your family has been pushing since he was so little this has very likely turned into a battle of wills. Sorry but a toddler will always win in the potty battle. They will wait until the minute you let them off the potty and go in their pants or will run and hide when they realise they need to go to avoid the potty. You have to change their concept of the potty and make it fun and rewarding.
Make sure he has a potty that he likes and is comfortable with. Ideally it is a potty that they cannot fall into and can reach the floor with their feet. The potty is a big scarey thing to toddlers so anything you can do to make them feel safe and secure is a good thing.
If he likes stickers you can try a calendar sticker reward chart. Walmart has booklets of stickers where it’s some normal sized stickers for on his shirt and little ones for the calendar. It’s nearly 900 stickers for $3. If he uses the potty for a week he gets to go to the park. Things like that go a huge distance for changing the potty into something he wants instead of something you want him to do.
Jul 07, 2010 | | potty train
We are potty training our puppy and it seems we are getting nowhere. We have to pad train her because we have no back yard. When we take her to the pad she will go for us. Or if we lock her in the kitchen she will go on the pad, but when she isn’t lock up she won’t go to the pad by herself. We have had her for 3weeks. Will she finally get it? At night she sleeps in the crate but I don’t want to lock her in the crate all day, so I baby gate the kitchen and she stays in there when we are gone.
She will get it just keep the pads in the same spot… get her in the routine of going to the same spot everytime… it will take a month or so just remember puppies can’t hold it long at all…
Jun 29, 2010 | | potty train
Chickens are smarter then hamsters, so why do people say it’s impossible to potty train a chicken.
Actually you can potty train a chicken, well not potty train, but paper train. Don’t be uneducated, look it up, it’s there.
Jun 18, 2010 | | potty train
I’ve been trying to potty train my three year old son since his second birthday but he just dosen’t seem to get it. Are there any tips on how to help him understand the potty?
my son is almost three and i totally thought i was doing some thing wrong he just didn’t seem to grasp it, so i asked our ped. and he said that on average a boy takes 8 months to fully potty train, 8 months!!!! and thats just the average time so for every one that potty trained their kid in 2 weeks there is another parent out there that has been pulling out their hair and changing wet clothes and dirty nappies for what seems like an eternity. we don’t ever punish our son for having a "oops" but i let him know that it makes mommy really sad to have to clean it up and now he runs to the potty and says "have to go, need make mommy happy" and using toddler underpants with the padded center has helped a lot, he hates the way they feel when they are wet, we also take a change of clothes every where we go. good luck!
Jun 08, 2010 | | potty train
A triathlon is a grueling competition that includes running, biking and swimming distances. The races can vary in distances, with the shorter Tinman, which includes a .62 mile swim, 28.6 mile bike race and a 6.2 mile run, to the aptly named Ironman, which includes a 2.4 mile swim, 112-mile bike race and running a marathon – approximately 26 miles.
Although triathletes from Dallas, Houston or anywhere in Texas come in various shapes, sizes and sexes, you have to be in excellent physical condition to participate in a triathlon. If you are participating in a race, or plan to do so, here are five key phases you should add to your triathlon training.
Hydration is the absolute, number one, most important training tip. Start off well hydrated, or even over-hydrated if you don’t mind potty visits three times in the last hour of your pre-triathlon race or training sessions. Then, if the triathlon event is less than an hour, you will not need to take in liquids during the event.
Phase One
Fun exercise. Most of your triathlon training should be enjoyable. The post-triathlon race season, and the early build up for next year, should be even more fun. Include long gentle sessions, cruising at 70 percent of your maximum heart rate, plus plenty of speedplay.
Running element. Two hundred to 800 meter efforts on trails, grass or other soft surfaces. Run 10-20 percent of your mileage as speedplay at about 10K of your race effort.
Swimming. Time to switch your environment. Ocean, lake or pool…seek a change. Swim 30-90 seconds in moderate effort surges.
Biking – Go off-road or to the road. Ride hard up the hills or do 2-10 minute surges.
Phase Two
Strength exercise – You still keep your long runs and bike rides, but you’re now in full triathlon training. Hill repeats for running and biking. Use resistance devices for swimming. In all the triathlon disciplines, keep your cadence and work on form. Also include weight training twice a week, until two weeks before your main triathlon races. Keep that relaxing speedplay exercise also.
Phase Three
Improve your oxygen delivery system or anaerobic threshold, while improving exercise efficiency. For triathlon running, you need to practice running at 15K to half-marathon race pace, with one to two mile repeats and 4- to 5-mile tempo runs. Run at 80-86 % maximum heart rate for these sessions. Biking at about one-hour time trial pace means 5- to 15-minute repeats at that pace. Swimming will require 3- to 5-minute efforts at 90 percent maximum swimming heart rate. Keep some strength and speedplay sessions too. Continue long runs and bike rides.
Phase Four
Improve oxygen uptake capacity (VO2 Max) and exercise form. Use a 5K pace for running (95 % of max VO2), usually as 1- to 3-minute efforts or 300-600 meters. If very experienced, use 5-minute efforts to perfect relaxed running form. Biking will also need 1- to 5-minute efforts at 15-minute time trial pace, which is closer to 100 % of max VO2 on the bike. One-minute efforts are more the norm for swimmers; form is so much more important against the high resistance of water. Retain some anaerobic exercise, strength and speedplay sessions too.
Phase Five
Peaking requires resting by 20-40 percent, but only in the last 2-3 weeks. The type of training that’s most often neglected is long efforts at VO2 Max. Running 1,000 to 1,600 meters at 5K pace, biking 4-6 minute efforts, and swimming 2 to 3 minutes at high intensity, places the muscles, including the heart muscle, in the high training zone for a greater percentage of the exercise session.
The well-trained runner/triathlete will find 12 x 400 meters at 5K pace easy. Three times one-mile at 5K pace is more demanding, especially if you only take a two-minute rest between reps. Match each session of long efforts with a session of short efforts at 5K intensity. Keep some anaerobic threshold exercise, strength speedplay sessions too. Never ignore a strength while working on your weakness.
Four weeks of relative rest in phase one should be followed by about eight weeks in each of the other four, triathlon-training phases. These 36 weeks leave triathletes a 16-week racing season.
Pat Carpenter
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/triathlon-basicstrain-all-of-your-body-systems-in-texas-130628.html
Jun 07, 2010 | | potty train
I just started potty training my 28 month old daughter. I have been dreading potty training for quite some time but I can’t afford diapers for two children anymore so I’ve got to get it done. Just wondering how long it usually takes to potty train. If you found something that really works let me know too. Thanks!!!
How are training pants more expensive if you only use 2 a day (nap and bed)? I plan on putting on washable panties during the day…. if she has a accident then I’ll wash them.
we started our daughter at 20 months, and at 22 months we only had about 1 accident a month… and now, at 26 months, she hasnt had an accident in over 5 or 6 weeks. good luck! it is WAY stressfull, but totally worth it when it is over!
May 30, 2010 | | potty train
my son is 2 at the end of this month…I know these things are coming up and just wanted to know when your babies did these things?
potty train-any suggestions?
Use a big boy bed?
go to preschool?
I started putting my son on the "big boy potty’" at 2 even though it was a little early. He will start to get the concept down. I noticed my son started pulling at his pants a lot more and in return starting going potty more and more. He is 2 and a half and using pull ups and doing pretty good. You don’t want to force it on them cause then they get bored and lose interest.
Big boy bed? I put my son in a Toddler bed. It transition form a crib to a toddler bed to a full size bed. But I would think if he doesn’t move a lot when he sleeps it might be ok. You can also purchase side rails for a regular bed to keep them from rolling.
Pre-school…when ever you are ready. I started my son 2days a week when he was 6months for social skills and I can tell when he is around other kids that don’t go to pre-school at all. My son is more advanced in language skills, social skills and just interacting with other kids his age.
GOOD LUCK!!!
May 19, 2010 | | potty train
It’s an all too familiar scene; a family walks into the pet store to look at the cute kittens and puppies. And when they leave they are the proud owner of one of those cute puppies or kittens. Swept away by the emotions of that cute little dog bouncing in the window or the soft meow of that precious little kitten. We all know that once you hold that cute little puppy that it’s hard to put down. But sometimes an impulsive buy like this can mean a long and hard road of frustration and pain for you and your pet. That is why a family would be better served to spend a little time doing research on the particular breed of dog or cat they are considering as their new family member.
When considering a purebred puppy. One thing you can be sure of is the inherent characteristics of that particular breed. When a family is considering bringing a purebred into their home, they may need to consider the breeds’ characteristics and whether they will suit the family personality. For example, buying a breed of dog that requires lots of exercise and activity when you’re family is not an active family will only result in a pet that is under stimulated and hard to control.
Unfortunately, the number one reason competent pet owners take their pets to the local humane service is because they bought their pet based on emotional decision, rather than an informed one. And now they don’t like the dog they’ve ended up with. What if the shoe was on the other foot and it was the dogs giving up their owners because they didn’t like the way the owners turned out. It doesn’t matter what the problem is, from chewing your shoes or the arm of your leather chair to something major like snapping at your child or attacking other pets. This behavior only increases the frustration level for both the owners and the pets and will result in the breaking of both the owners and the pets’ heart.
Stay smart about your research in particular what breed you want to bring home. If you are interested in buying a Labrador retriever, the last person you want to rely on for that breeds’ information is the person you are buying a puppy from. They have an interest in promoting the sale of their animal they may tell you what you want to hear to help them achieve the sale. Seek out independent sources using places like the Internet or your local library. Contact the AKC or visit their website and look at all the information they have on the particular breed you want. Make sure your research things like size and weight, health problems, amount of exercise and is your breed going to shed a lot. These things are just the tip of the iceberg. So we have provided you a list that you can take with you when you are researching your particular breed.
1. Does the dog shed a lot?
2. How much food will have to buy each month?
3. Are they easily trainable or are you going to exert a lot of effort?
4. Are they easy to potty train?
5. Will a weekly brushing work or do they had to be groomed by a professional groomer?
6. Does the breed bark a lot or only when provoked?
7. Is the breed overly protective?
8. Does the breed require any out of the ordinary care?
9. Is the breed easily socialized?
10. Is the breed temperamental?
11. How big is the breed going to get or how small is it going to stay?
12. Are they a family dog and will they get along with your children?
13. How long can you expect him to be a family member?
Using the tips that we’ve given you here along with your sound judgment should enable you to pick the breed of dog that will best suit you and your family’s personality. Remember to make an informed decision rather than a spur of the moment emotional one. By doing this you and your family will have chosen the best friend of a lifetime you could have and in return you will receive unconditional love.
Bart LeToad
http://www.articlesbase.com/pets-articles/tips-on-choosing-a-pure-bred-pet-101147.html
May 17, 2010 | | potty train
