Why did I get a puppy?

[XemaSab]

I just gave Maddy a 10 minute time out.

She was running back and forth between the living room and the back yard, alternating between chewing on the rug and chewing on, well, everything she could find in the yard.

I thought she might need a puppy time out.

Now she's in the sky kennel screaming her head off. :banghead:

[Parche]

1. Dogs Suck

Cats are much better
:hi:

[wartrace]

20. Dogs do not "suck".

I would not want to live life without the company of a few dogs. I have six right now & would adopt more if I weren't afraid to be labeled a "hoarder".

I also have two beautiful Tabby cats who have stolen my heart. I wouldn't want to live without them either.

[Angleae]

33. Only if you want an owner instead of a pet.

[zanne]

2. Please don't give up on Maddy.

She'll grow out of it.

[XemaSab]

24. As long as she doesn't chew up the couch, half the books in the house, and all our shoes

I won't give up on her.

Oh, wait, Bailey already did all that back when HE was a puppy! :banghead:

Last week Maddy chewed up the slipcover for the couch. Three guesses why the couch is slipcovered? :banghead::banghead::banghead:

Even worse: that was couch #2. :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[zanne]

40. Glad to hear it, XemaSab.

Sounds like your dogs are furniture-averse. I was looking for something to read the other day and I dug out a book that I read about 30 years ago. The cover was torn and there were puppy teeth marks on it. I suddenly missed my dog, even though he chewed up half my albums at one time.

[malta blue]

3. dogs don't understand a 10 minute time out

:pals:

A spray bottle is your friend. When she does something you don't like - spray her. Oh, and don't let her out of your sight for a couple of days. Keep her attached to you and whenever she starts to do something you don't want - pow - spray gun. I used to say "pow pow" at the dogs as a I sprayed. Once they got older, I just had to say "pow pow" and they stopped and ran....

Good luck!

[XemaSab]

4. They don't understand a time out

but they DO understand a nap.

She's quiet now.

[malta blue]

7. glad to hear

:hug:

[MadMaddie]

5. I agree the spray bottle is your best friend.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. powpow...

I LOVE it! :rofl:

[malta blue]

9. my poor Luna dog

she was the "first dog" and so I experimented on her all the time. The "pow pow" was the best! I would just look at her and say "Where's the pow pow" and she would tuck her tail between her legs and give me that beagle-y look....

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I tried pow-powing to train mai kittehs. Did not werk so gud. All I got was

angreh wet kittehs and more broken stuff.

[malta blue]

13. my cat did not respond half as well as the dog.

He would hunker down and continue the bad behavior, regardless of how wet he got. And he would growl :scared:

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Yep. Kittehs don't get that who's-the-boss stuff.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. That's weird, my cat (and the kitten come to think of it) learned from the spray bottle.

It got to the point where all I had to do was shake it and they would go hiding.

[Roon]

28. We had a super soaker

We used to cock it to pump it up and spray the cats when they were doing something they weren't suppose to. The final years that my ex lived with me, we didn't even keep water in the soaker. (It leaked terrible) all we had to do was pick up the dry soaker and start cocking it and the cats would scatter.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. A spray bottle doesn't work on Beag

I could unload a whole spray bottle in her face and she'd just stand there blinking.

Meanwhile, I just need to pretend to pick up the spray bottle with Mick and he'll sulk away.

[Roon]

30. My Grandparents had a schaunzer with a terrible barking problem

one of the many things they tried to do was use a spray bottle when she barked. All they got was a wet barking dog.

[Connonym]

31. would that work on an older dog do you think?

I'm trying to break my "teenage" (she's 2) dog from barking when she hears another dog bark and from jumping. The barking thing drives me to distraction.

[malta blue]

41. It's worth a try - what's the worst thing that could happen?

:shrug:

I have to follow my own advice and train my little rat dogs to respect the pow pow.

[mopinko]

44. jumping on you? other people?

the knee in the face works, and taking their back feet out with your foot works.
but dogs do not jump up or put their feet on an effective pack leader. mine used to do that stuff, but cesar showed me the way.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. That is what puppehs do. Now go give her some attention :^D

[texanwitch]

10. When my dog was a puppy she chewed on the water hose,

Nothing else but the water hose.

She did out grow it.


Puppies are so cute and grow up so fast.

Make sure your puppy knows what the word no means.

I made my then puppy go to bed when she was bad, she learned to behave.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I grew up with an english setter who had a taste for electrical cords

:o

[texanwitch]

17. I had a cat who did that until she got a little surprise.

That stopped her.

We just let the puppy chew on the hose, better that then shoes.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Yeah, hoses aren't so bad when you come right down to it. :^D

[Roon]

14. Someone walked into the shop today with a Teacup Chihuahua

puppy. Just got him yesterday from his momma. He was so tiny when I first saw him I thought he was a RAT!! He was already trained to follow the owner everywhere he goes! So cute. Now, if I can't have a Border Collie, I would want one of these!! At least I can put him in a carrier and bring him on the bus and the train when I travel! I hear they are good watch dogs too, alerting you when someone is around.

[RebelOne]

42. I have a Chihuahua, but I will never have another one.

She is 9 months old and a total terror. I have had her since she was 6 weeks old. She was so totally uncontrollable that I sent her to Man's Best Friend for 2 weeks in puppy boot camp. She came back worse than ever. I think they mistakenly trained her to be an attack dog. She growls and snaps at all strangers. But you are right, she is a good watch dog. She alerts me when even my Rottweiler doesn't bark. But the problem is she barks at anything that moves outside.

[Kali]

16. try not to make her crate a place of "punishment"

or it will never be the useful tool it can be

better to stop the bad behavior instantly (by whatever your choice of method - just be firm and consistent), and then distract with something appropriate

[tbyg52]

19. Yes, if you can get her to think of the crate as home, you're ahead of the game.

We got a former foster dog a few years ago, and he was of course used to crating, and being hauled around to adoption fairs.

He had terrible separation anxiety when we first got him, tore a lot of stuff up when we weren't there.

Our vet said that there were anti-anxiety medicines for dogs, but that they didn't work in 50% of the cases, and that she'd recommend getting a crate.

Well, it was home to him and what he'd been missing, apparently. We kept him in it when we weren't home (and he often got in it when we were) for about a year, and then were able to wean him off of it. (Because we were sick of it taking up half the family room! - and we still had to put his cushion where it used to be.)

[Roon]

26. My former inlaws had a lab that had seperation anxiety

they started crating her and giving her a cookie every time they left. It eventually got to the point where they didn't have to crate her anymore as long as they gave her a cookie before going to work. If they forgot the cookie,look out!! You are coming home to a mess. Dogs are so funny!!

[tbyg52]

52. How funny! Hope they didn't forget the cookie too often....! ;-> nt

[XemaSab]

53. My dogs ALL get a cookie when we're leaving the house

It's the only way we can sneak out the door. :o

[XemaSab]

25. The problem with the "appropriate" distraction:

We have two other dogs, so if one of them gets a cookie, they ALL have to have cookies. If one of them gets a rawhide chew thing, they ALL have to have rawhide chew things. And, worst of all, two of them don't care about toys unless ONE of them has a toy.

Maddy's toy got torn apart yesterday. NOT by Maddy. :eyes:

Oh, and this is her first timeout since we got her. :D

[wartrace]

22. XemaSaB- You violated rule number 863, sub paragraph c, section two.

No member shall MENTION a cute puppy in a topic starting thread without including a picture of said pup. Failure to do so will result in angry demands for pictures from dog loving D.U.'ers, retinal bleeding & incontinence.

I REALLY want to see a picture dag nab it!!!!

[LisaM]

23. I don't think chewing is necessarily bad behavior for a puppy

he's teething! Put a wet washcloth in the freezer, then give it to him to chew on when it freezes.

[jobycom]

29. A puppy? Running, chewing, and howling? What will they think of next?

I was very disappointed when my goldfish kept staying underwater! I mean, really!

[InvisibleTouch]

32. My dogs all have the "puppy naughties" until they're about 2 years old...

...and then it's like you turn off a light switch, they go from holy terrors to serene adults almost overnight. You have to get through those 2 years, though. In my case, as soon as I had the last ones settled down, the next set of puppies would come along - so, never a moment's peace!

[Iggo]

34. "Sky Kennel?"

That's not a cute name for doggy heaven is it?

:scared:

[XemaSab]

36. .

[Iggo]

37. Ohthankgod!

Phew!

[undeterred]

35. Puppy jail

I can't stand the noise Ollie makes in puppy jail. The crate was supposed to be a place to contain him but I didn't have the heart... so I only put him in there when he's bad, which isn't too often. We're into major chewing but I give him tons of rawhides and stuffed animals to kill.

[BrklynLiberal]

38. Watch The Dog Whisperer - on Natl Geographic, and It's Me or The Dog-

on Animal Planet. They both helped me to be able to deal with my GSD a lot better. I prefer The Dog Whisperer technique.

If you cannot afford or cannot find a trainer, get a book about dog training.

Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training (Paperback)
by Karen Pryor

No Bad Dogs by Barbara Woodhouse Dog Training Book

There are also videos that can be helpful. The hard part is usually getting the dog to understand what it is that you want them to do. They are usually eager to please once they know what you want.

[Mollis]

39. Because they are just so cute

When we first got my dog, she ate all of my underwear. lol

[Arkansas Granny]

43. I wondered the same thing after I got my last puppy (who is a very

sweet 9 yo now) and I've decided that if/when I get another dog, it will be a young adult and not a puppy. Puppies are sweet and I love 'em, but I don't want to deal with another one going through that chewing stage.

[XemaSab]

47. Long story short:

Basically I asked a woman who worked at the pound what dog I should get, and since Maddy's (hopefully) almost full grown, I didn't know she was a puppy until it was too late. :o

[Arkansas Granny]

48. I hope she grows out of it soon. Chewing seems to be about the only trait

that I've never been able to train out of a puppy. They all seem to grow out of it, but they can sure inflict some damage before they do. Some of my gardening tools still bear the results of Sapphire's puppy teeth. She quit her indiscriminate chewing after she lost her milk teeth and grew her adult teeth.

[XemaSab]

49. Gardening tools?

If you still have any functional gardening tools, you're doing better than I did with Bailey. :eyes:

[Arugula Latte]

45. See -- another reasons kittens are better.

:hide:

[Zuni]

46. puppies are so cute

but being around them for a while will make you want to drive an icepick up your left nostril.

[XemaSab]

50. The rug is now missing about 4 inches of fringe

:banghead:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

51. I love cats.

:rofl::rofl:

[Critters2]

54. IF you can afford it, I recommend Barkbusters. There are Barkbuster trainers all over the country--

hell, the world. I did this with the beagle, and it helped a LOT. Pricey, but I'm glad I did it.

http://www.barkbusters.com/