My dog is 7 and a half years old. She is truly living up to the expression that old dogs can't learn new tricks. I think, however, that she can learn them, and she knows exactly what's going on, she just doesn't want to. As a puppy, my dog Mia was raised in a cement, gated kennel as her house and in a kennel at the hunting school she attended for at least a year. So, I've got a true outside dog posing as an inside dog. Trust, me it ain't easy. Although Mia is living the life she has always dreamed of, there are certain things she simply won't change.
Example: She poops in her kennel if she has to go. She obviously did this her entire life being an outside kenneled dog, and I've googled the issue, and tried all types of punishments for this, but at the end of the day, she just doesn't care. She knows I'm coming home to let her out and go to the bathroom outside, but she doesn't seem to care to wait. It's like I'm putting her out.
Maybe there is something to be said for the old expression about old dogs and new tricks. I have cracked the code! Old dogs can learn new tricks, they just don't really care enough to do it.
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