"The important words and phrases in the above paragraph are den, pack, rendezvous site, and watchful eye of mother or guardian. If we wish to communicate with a dog we must do it on his level of intelligence. This is what he understands.

"Now, let us housebreak your dog using his den (crate). You’ll need a rendezvous site (kitchen) where the pack (family) meets most often, with the pup being out of his den only when a pack member can keep a watchful eye to educate him (catch him in the act of urinating so he can be shown immediately what's expected of him). That means if you’re the only one home and you have to leave the kitchen, you either take him with you or put him in his den, even if you’re going to be gone for only five minutes. That’s all the time it takes for him to urinate. You then you missed a great opportunity to show him what is expected of him because you didn't catch him in the act. You must catch him in the act. I know this may be hard to comprehend, so please just trust me on this, Dogs have no past or future. They live only in the present. So, regardless if whether you take him up to where he eliminated and point at it or rub his nose in it and say "Bad dog!" he has no idea what you are talking about. When I boarded dogs for two weeks at a time, provided the owners did not leave anything with their scent on it, those dogs couldn't think of their owners if they tried. When they next smelled them or heard them they would get recall and only then would they remember their owners. When we shut our eyes and think of our mother or father, we can actually get a mental picture of them. Dogs cannot recall past images. Dogs are not capable of that kind of thought process. People always tell me, "He knows what I mean because every time I say 'Bad dog!' his ears go back and his tail goes between his legs." What that dog does know for sure is that every time you say those words in that tone he has an unpleasant experience but he doesn't know why."