How Long does it take to Potty Train a Dog? FAN FRIDAY #79

How's it going everybody? Toby wants to say hello! Tell everybody, that it's Fan Friday! Say, oh! It's rainy and yucky! But, at least we get to film outside today. It stopped raining just long enough for us to film Fan Friday! Friday! Victoria wants to know, have Shiloh, Shelby or Oakley ever chased their tail? Have they ever run or barked in their sleep? Um... I've never really seen any of them chase their tail. Not any of them. What are you looking at Shelby? As for barking in their sleep, I have heard Shelby bark and whine many times in her sleep. Oh! She must think there's something back there. There's really nothing back there. Sorry! Squirrel's not there. Cheryl says, Oakley and Shiloh don't seem to interact very much. Is this true? Or is this just what we see on video? Um... They don't really interact much. I mean, they lay down next to each other. They walk next to each other. As for playing, they really don't do much for playing. Apparently, they are going to sniff each other's butts like they never met each other before. What? Really? They don't really interact much with each other when it comes to playing. It's mostly Shelby and Oakley. It's the same thing with Shiloh and Oakley. Or Shiloh and Shelby. They don't interact all that much unless they are playing either. Tony wants to know and a couple of other people have actually asked this too. Why no boys? Oh! Really? Because Oakley's a girl and Shiloh's a girl and Shelby's a girl. There's really no reason as to why we have no boys. We just ended up with girls. Nothing against boy dogs. We just have girl dogs. Rachel says, In an earlier video, you talked about how Shiloh was very scared and timid when she was younger. How did you get her out of her shell? Yes! When Shiloh was younger, when she was a baby, up until she was probably around two years old, she was very scared of people, noises, pretty much everything. Everything loud, anything different. She freaked out. All we really did is we kind of forced her to go everywhere with us. If she freaked out too much, we'd go back home. We took a lot of treats with us and we would take her to the park with us. When we lived in Arizona, we lived right down the street from Petco. We would take her to Petco. We would take her everywhere we could where she could be exposed to people. She could be exposed to other dogs. Slowly but surely, her confidence built up. Eventually, she became the dog you see today. A lot of people don't believe that Shiloh used to be afraid of everybody. She liked Jamie and I. She liked our family. People would come over our house and she would run away. It just took a lot of time. It takes a lot of time to heal a damaged dog. There goes Shelby! What are you doing you crazy dog? Charlotte says, I saw a video on YouTube of a guy walking a Husky on a treadmill. Do you think it's safe? We used to have a treadmill and we had slowly started training Shelby to walk on it. The only reason we got rid of it was because we didn't really have the room for it in our other house. I wish I would have kept it because I have room for it in the new house. It is safe. It's not something you can't just let them walk on it and walk away. It's something you definitely have to be there the whole time they're walking on it. It is safe and it is a nice alternative if the weather is cold and you can't get out and walk them. It definitely helps get that extra energy out of them. Stacy wants to know, How long did it take you to potty train your dogs? With Shiloh, it probably took me about two weeks. She had it figured out real fast. With Shelby... We got Shelby when she was six weeks old. It probably took us about a month with Shelby. I think it was just because she was a little bit younger. Shiloh was twelve weeks old when we got her so she was a little bit older. The biggest keys for this crate train. If you don't know how to crate train, Google crate training. One of these days I'll do a video explaining how to do it. With the crate training help, you have to be persistent. You just have to keep on and you have to pick a method and keep with it. Don't keep changing your method otherwise they'll get confused. Patricia wants to know, Is it cheaper to make Shiloh's food rather than buy commercial dog food? No! It is not cheaper to make Shiloh's food rather than buy commercial dog food. But Shiloh has ups and downs with her digestive system and sometimes we have to make food for her. But she is actually back on Canada All Life Stages dog food and she's been doing really well with it. I actually feed her a combination of the All Life Stages and their new formula. They have a Pure Elements formula. She gets the Pure C. I feed her half that because it's grain free and half Canada All Life Stages. She's been doing really well on it. It is cheaper than feeding her homemade food. Her homemade food is very expensive but she's worth every penny. In the mail today we got a Halloween card from Angie and Zorro. We got a Halloween card and we got a drawing for Shelby! Just for you Shelby! And Angie wants to know what Shelby's favorite food is. Shelby pretty much likes everything. I would have to say her least favorite food would probably be carrots. But I don't know where she went. Other than that she pretty much likes everything. We also got a drawing of Shelby and Shiloh from Kristen. She sent us a picture of her dog Gabby. She said she didn't draw a picture of Oakley because she didn't want us to be confused. You are right! Shiloh and Oakley are the same color. Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. Unless you see them in person. Right? Right Shelby? Shelby is easy to tell apart. She's totally different in color. We also got some dog treat recipes from our friend Beth. We're going to have to try those out. Make a video with some dog treats. What you think? Want to make dog treats? Thanks Beth for sending those to us. I'll definitely be trying those out. Oh look at you sitting there pretty girl. That's all we have for Fan Friday today you guys. Thanks for watching. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for leaving comments on our video. Just as a reminder if you go back and watch Monday's video we're doing another giveaway on Monday's video. So go leave a comment on that video to be entered to win either a $20 gift certificate to our store or another t-shirt. We're giving away one of each of those prizes off of that video. So again, thanks for watching. Thanks for subscribing. We'll see you guys on Monday. Goodbye! Big yawn! Don't forget, if you guys would like to send us anything in the mail, our P.O. Box address is Gone to the Snow Dogs P.O. 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