Same Words for Your Dog: Toilet and Crate: Reward-Based House Training Crate

Every situation in this book names its source - a named study or a veterinary position statement, printed on the page, not a branded method and not a clip somebody shared.This book does not tell you to be the pack leader or to wait it out. It tells you what to do in the ninety seconds before he squats, what to do with the crate door, and what you should be seeing a week later.Forty-five situations from house training and the crate, each on one spread: choosing the crate and where it goes, the first meal inside with the door open, closing the door for sixty seconds, the daily rhythm that sets the schedule, one door and one spot, how long to stand out there, catching it mid-stream, the puddle you find hours late and what cleaning does not fix, the guilty look, excited wetting at the door, apartments and elevators and the vaccination weeks, naps and quiet time when the house is loud, pen or crate and what each is for, when a crate is not the answer at all, the first nights, the three in the morning waking, sleeping through, teaching him to ask, widening the house room by room, the same rules away from home, the setback after a good week, marking or soiling, stool and what it tells you, and when it is medical rather than training.Nine words, and everyone in the house uses the same nine. One word means one thing and never two. The list is printed at the front, and every spread says which of the nine it uses. This is book two, and it adds no new words to the nine.Every spread says where the line is. House soiling is one of the places where a training problem and a medical one look identical on the floor. Each situation carries a line naming the signs that mean a call to a veterinarian comes before anything in this book.The research behind every page is named. The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior on humane training. The American Animal Hospital Association on house training and confinement. Around them: Kelly Ballantyne on house soiling and the medical workup, Sara Kinsman on how puppies sleep across the first year, Meghan Herron on what confrontational handling provokes, Bonne Beerda on what long confinement does, Alexandra Horowitz on the guilty look, Emily Blackwell on training method and behavior, Karen Overall on working below the point of panic, Erica Feuerbacher on what a dog will work for, Benjamin Hart on marking.It also says where the evidence is thin. Several pages rest on studies that report an association and not a cause, and those pages say so. Where a source was funded by a company with something to sell, that is disclosed at the back with the company named. One claim that almost every house training article repeats is examined and dropped, because we could not find research behind it.No brand of cleaner, crate, pad or app is named anywhere in it.Book two of Same Words for Dogs, and it stands alone.Educational material. Not veterinary advice.