Bad Dog!!

your method of training the dog is very good. my dog makes all sorts of bad things an i said to her, in a firm voice, that she isn't allowed to do that. sometimes, she is a good dog. she also chews the papers, the flowers an so on.

I usually just say my dogs name "Beau" in a firm voice and he listens to me. He is a pretty good dog but will get into mischief ocassionally. The main thing that he does is to chase the cat. That is something we get tired of dealing with. Yelling at him does alittle bit of good but not alot.

I just take pick it up and put it in the recycle and don't make a big deal about it. I have came into the room to find my dog chewing up a piece of paper towel, worse my lottery ticket. I just pick up the towel and toss it in the garbage. I don't make eye contact or say a word. Today, a peice of paper towel fell on the floor. I just left it, purposely. My dog didn't even pay any attention to it.

Unless you catch the dog in the act of doing something you consider bad, it's too late for any type of 'discipline'. IMO you should've taken your rolled up paper and hit yourself in the head saying 'I forgot to watch my dog' ten times. Hitting the floor beside her after she has stopped chewing is likely only teaching her that you're unpredictable; dogs have a memory of about three seconds, anything after that is pointless and they will not connect their action (tearing up newspaper or whatever) to the punishment no matter how 'guilty' their faces might look. That guilty look they can give is nothing more than a reaction to your body language to try and calm you down. If my dog gets into anything he shouldn't, I just interrupt and redirect his attention onto something more appropriate but it's not often I have to do that anymore now that he's grown up.