[mandiedandie]

Although some of you sound like you have perfect dogs, I appreciate your advice and encouragement. We've already started training them by not allowing them to sleep in the bed, but they sleep in our room...is that not a good idea? I don't know where else I'd put them, our house is kind of small, and the only other bedroom is the nursery. We close the door to the nursery and they don't ever really go in there anyway, they kind of just avoid it because we tried training them to come in only when given permission and they just would rather not go in. I do have a pack leader problem, I get afraid and frustrated, so it's hard for me to shake that...I'm working on it though. I am hoping that Petsmart can give us some good training because there's only one other option here where I live and they're on vacation. The pit boxer is just so afraid of everything and when we try and take dominance over her, she just lays there and doesn't want to do anything, like she's depressed. As we've been training her the past few days so we are the pack leaders, she just lays in the same spot and doesn't move...is that good or bad? Does that mean she is learning her new place or are we making her more fearful? I need Cesar Milan, LoL, but I don't live in Southern California and they never have a show that applies completely to us.