First of all, I am thourghly convinced my dog does not feel pain. She electricutes herself repeatedly I'm having to guard the outlet by my computer like a hawk; she slams her head repeatedly into things, anything and everything; she sticks her face in the box fan, with a constant "thump thump thump", and Sunday I had to make her give me whatever it was she was crunching on and it was a PIECE of a RAZOR BLADE!!! She has cuts and scraps all over her head I'm not even sure where they came from!

She's been banished from the bed, because she can't stop peeing in it. And I just washed the sheets >< Well I had to make it so she can't get back up.

The teeth are really really getting on my nerves and not a darn thing I try works. I have NEVER had THIS much trouble training mouthing out of ANYTHING! I'm bout to muzzle her butt

Speaking of muzzle, Saturday night she sticks her head on my desk and grabs my pizza, so I yelled at her and got the thing back and tossed it on my desk I fussed at her and sat back down. Finally, I went in another room for whatever reason, came back and she had the pizza in the floor. She GROWLED at me! and not just ANY growl, not a little one, this 3 month old puppy sounded like a full blooded adult pit bull going after a kitten. I kid you not! She ran behind the tv with the pizza slice and did it again! I grabbed her by her collar and yanked her out and, well I lost my temper honestly, and I started growling back at her. I yelled and snarled and said "two can play the dominance game and you aren't winning!" And I scruffed her at that point still growling. Well she got banished from the bedroom for the rest of the night over that one. My husband said it wouln't have happened if I'd just let her have the pizza in the first place and I said I'm not going to let her keep what I didn't give her.


She's been "calmer" since that incident, but last night, my husband got sick and didn't think he could make it to the bathroom, so he stuck his head out the front door and threw up off the side. I didn't know this until I opened the door to let her potty. She went straight for it, and I tried to take her to the other end of the hous eand she went straight back for it. Finally I got the leash (which I hadn't use before because I hadn't needed it) well she spent the entire 30 minutes I was out there trying to get loose, and finally i was too tired to see straight and I said "at this point I don't care if you potty in the house" and I locked her in the ferret room (linoleum) for the night. Well she didn't mess thankfully, and I had to take her back out on the leash this morning.

She spent another 30 minutes runing back and forth back and forth tryng to snatch the leash out of my hand or at least bite it off, and well she ran herself tired and FINALLY went potty!


She jumps constantly, she barks when she doesn't get attention... ARGH ><

She's driving me crazy! And the worst part is... it's my own fault! and I know it is



It's time to put the knuckles to the grindstone. I can't have a horribly disobedient dog like this. I'm not going to get rid of her because of my own inadaquacies either. I'm even looking into professional help : /

wow, i have never had that much trouble with a dog. And professional help probably will help. By the way what type of dog is it? As for the chewing and getting hurt, I'd puppy proof the house to the extreme, keep anything and everything out of reach.

We're not sure what kind of dog it is, but we're very sure she's mostly beagle. Head structure, patterning and even the way her sister looks (who by the way is giving my sister more trouble than my dog is giving me)

We're having to keep the ferrets away from her because everytime she gets close to them she goes straight for their necks. She already done severe damage to my arms and legs, how do you think she's going to treat a tiny ferret 1/10 her size?

That's another thing, she's only 3 months old and almost comes to my knee at her shoulder. @.@ how much bigger can see get >< I know they grow for around a year.

Oh,how I feel for you, Dear galaxygoddess, I too had the same power struggle with my Cocker Spaniel, Nicky. When he thought he was the alpha puppy in a home where I paid the bills! First, I just want you to know your not alone, there is help, I started with my vet. She was a mountain of support and information. Next, please, if you muzzle your pet (which I have no problem with, and have had to do at times for my safety) try the other end. The butt really isn't the dangerous part. Nicky had actually bitten me a few times, which I must say scared me quite a bit. It showed and he took full advantage! I knew I had to get help because if I had thought about giving him up, well, I think we both know how that would have worked out. My vet recommended a trainer, who came to my home for only an hour. She observed the "body language" of how we both behaved, during brushing, commands, etc. and then she trained me....I assumed all dog's know what a brush was, I assumed that all dog's were used to being handled.. I assumed way more than I actually knew about puppies. You sound as though you have more experience than me, but this was the first "puppy" I ever had. All my dog's had come from shelter's and were at least a year old. So I had a lot to learn. That one hour really changed my behavior, and Nicky and I grew so close that if I stopped to fast, his snout would be in my butt! I'm heart broken to say that I lost him just last week to cancer. He was only 3 but he lived everyday to it's fullest, and he was a very happy dog. I say that because it showed. So I think your off to a good start already by knowing where a part of the probem may be, and I do hope that you and your little housemate become as close as Nicky and I did....everything works out if we want it too, and we are willing to do what it takes. Best of Luck, and please don't give up unless you must.

It sounds like you need to call Victoria Stillwell!

The first question a trainer is going to ask is where are you when all this mischief is happening?

You have the equivelent of a one year old toddler in your home who needs constant supervision and direction. When you can't watch her, keep her confined to a safe area just as you would a toddler in a playpen.

She has no way of knowing what she can and can't do unless you guide her constantly.

If she's as tall as your knees at 3 months she's going to be a very big dog. The time to get her under control is slipping away quickly.

If you aren't willing to put the same time and effort into her that you would getting a child through the terrible twos, perhaps it's best if you find her a home where she'll get the training and attention she needs.

A puppy isn't a toy that you can take out when you feel like it and put away when you're tired of it. They're a full time job for at least the first few months.

You're not a newcomer to these forums, surely some of what you've read has soaked in by now. Get yourself some books on raising a puppy and read them over and over till you finally get it.

Good luck.

Ugh, I deserve to be lectured

This is my own fault because I'm so used to "trained" dogs recently. I seem to have forgotten some basic principles somewhere.

I had an interesting weekend with her though.

She has had some severe separation anxiety I can't quite explain. We have the house quartered off to where she can only get in the ferret room, beroom, and we've been trying to keep her out of the bathroom.

Sometime last week I left the door open while I was getting a shower and she started hopping in with me. She LOVES it. She loves to play in the shower so I've been letting her. She also has been hopping in the tub when I'm not in there and trying to get water out of the faucet. At first I thought it was cute so I would turn it on for her. Now I'm realising how that can be problem so I've put a stop to that and I only let her hop in the shower with me every once and awhile (mostly like last night after she decided to roll in pee and I had to bathe her anyway).

Back to the separation anxiety, if I go out of the ferret room and into the kitchen or living room, she gets HYSTERICAL. I mean just absolutely BONKERS howling and whining and just driving us crazy. Ignoring her does nothing, yelling at her does nothing, locking her in the bedroom leads to destruction of the bedroom door, letting her in the living room leads to her getting into some stuff I don't need her in. So we just put up with the whining.

Saturday I decided it was time to just all out annilate my kitchen and clean it and make it so she could go through the kitchen to the back door because I'm tired of carrying her. (she's getting huge) So I sent my husband to his friends so I could have the house to myself and well I spent about 6 hours (it was that nasty, but that's a different story) cleaning my kitchen.

The first two hours she was, of course, hysterical. Finally, in a humor of the situation I barked back at her in the the same way, I went "RAWR RAWR RAWR! Do you see how annoying that is?" And she sat down and just blinked at me. It was really funny.

Throughout the day I kept having to stop for various reasons to go through where she was. Well I would mostly ignore her unless I sat down for a minute and then I would pet her. Well for the first 2 hours (before I barked at her) she would do the mouthy bite thing.

After I barked at her, she didn't. After the initial barking she started whining so I barked again. She sat down. Every since, she's been a relative angel. o.0;; Well, about the separation anxiety at least.

If I leave her little area, she just clamly sits down and waits for me.

Later, after I'd finished for the day (my kitchen is 75% cleaner!) I had sat downa nd she had been calmly laying beside me all day. She wasn't jumpy or antsy, she was calm and nice.

I went in the living room and I said, "I did more than just the kitchen today. Do you notice something?" he asked me what and I said "the dog." he blinked at me and then kind of looked behind me and said "hey, yeh, how'd you do that?" and I said "honestly, I'm not sure."

But she has been just shockingly quiet. She's even not trying to do the mouthing biting thing any more, unless I poke her muzzle too much and then it's like she thinks I want her to, but she stops.

I've been doing the whole "you gonna bbite me, I'm NOT going to pet you" so I think tha's helping.

She still thinks she's supposed to be my lap dog and keeps climbing in my lap when I sit down.


And Saturday, after I did so much in the kitchen I put in an oven pizza cause I was exhausted, I took 3 slices of pizza in the bedroom, sat it on my desk and walked away to get a drink. I came back in the bedroom and Sugar is sitting in my chair, but she's not even looking at the desk. My pizza was actually safe!

Of course, that didn't really stop her from begging and trying to get up on my desk while I was actually sitting in the chair *sigh.


We're working on it :/

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The first two hours she was, of course, hysterical. Finally, in a humor of the situation I barked back at her in the the same way, I went "RAWR RAWR RAWR! Do you see how annoying that is?" And she sat down and just blinked at me. It was really funny.

Ha ha you finally spoke to her in a language she understands. Now if you could only figure out what you said to her!

#1 thing: Never get too harsh. You need to be very firm, but never actually hurt your dog. I have a dog that you have to be very firm in order to train him. You can never let them get away with things, even when they are cute little puppies you can't just let them go potty everywhere. With your dog, you really need to get a professional in! Hire a trainer or anything! You could even be on the show "The dog whisperer" Don't worry though, your dog can be trained!