The best vid - just watched two others of yours on wtfwit. Yesterday I let my puppy off leash when we were out, during two safe parts of our walk, and boy did he look and and listen to me. He was really happy, too. In two days I am returning him to the family he was born into. My partner is not on board with us having him and neither of us has bonded with the puppy, probably because my partner is often away on business, I have had bad tallonitis (it hurts to walk and I limp on all our walks which is so frustrating) and our lives are complicated. We’ve made various mistakes, over the past three months (which feel like three years). The puppy is five months old now, and I have tried hard, have certainly cared for all his physical needs and have compassion for the dog’s craving (which I cannot satisfy) for stimulation and play. This craving causes me to think he needs to be in a large family, and perhaps with other animals. He’s a wriggly, hyper, biting and temperamental (?)) “velcro” poodle who is attached to me merely because he spends nearly all his time with just me (I work from home) in the house or in the garden. He yelps and barks when I leave the room. I feel protective towards the puppy but mostly numb and even dread in the mornings. I wonder if I am depressed and if this is why I do not feel a bond. These horrid doubts and concerns make me feel guilty also and bad for the dog, mostly relief at the prospect of returning him. It has been a difficult decision to make.
I would absolutely love a video about puppy biting. My pup just turned 6 months old and the only thing I can do is quietly take her to her kennel for a break for both of us. Sometimes not so quietly if she is in the middle of the crazy zoomies and keeps flying at my two kids. When we catch her, we try to gently take her to her kennel for a time out for all of us.
Also would like to have a video on puppy biting! I no longer have a puppy (the land-shark I had has moved past that and is 7 now), but. . .honestly, I made all but one of these mistakes with her as a puppy and her first year and a half was an absolute nightmare. It was SO hard I did not enjoy it at all. I think the only reason we got through it is because I was too stubborn to give up. She was a horrific biter and NOTHING worked. Unfortunately, she kind of still is. It's shrunk down to being reactive about certain things, but she can and absolutely WILL still bite. I can't help but wonder if I'd handled her differently as a puppy if we couldn't have avoided this. But - little hard to say now. It is possible the reactivity was already there in just a wilder form. I also made the mistakes with exercise. -sigh- I've learned better since, but yeah. Don't get me wrong, she's a good dog now - still difficult - but over all, good. But I am continuing to try to learn how to do things better. Both for her, for any future dog I get - and who knows. Maybe someday I'll be a dog trainer. I'd like to be. Either way, more information, honing skills is a good thing for me, for my dog, for future dogs. I just hate that her puppyhood was such a disaster. :P And yes, a lot of it WAS mis-information, and on the good side, it made me scramble to find BETTER methods, and I have, but I still don't know the best ways to deal with things like. . puppy biting. (I know A better way, but is it the best? I don't know. I need more information!)
Subbed! I just moved into a room of a house where the landlords foster dogs from the overcrowded shelter nearby. I grew attached to a 6 month old Staffy (looks to be more of a pitbull). He likes to bite when we play and chew the blankets sometimes my clothes that I’m wearing. Any tips on training that behavior? He also likes to stand over the older smaller dogs a lot which piss them off but he’s learning.
The best vid - just watched two others of yours on wtfwit. Yesterday I let my puppy off leash when we were out, during two safe parts of our walk, and boy did he look and and listen to me. He was really happy, too. In two days I am returning him to the family he was born into. My partner is not on board with us having him and neither of us has bonded with the puppy, probably because my partner is often away on business, I have had bad tallonitis (it hurts to walk and I limp on all our walks which is so frustrating) and our lives are complicated. We’ve made various mistakes, over the past three months (which feel like three years). The puppy is five months old now, and I have tried hard, have certainly cared for all his physical needs and have compassion for the dog’s craving (which I cannot satisfy) for stimulation and play. This craving causes me to think he needs to be in a large family, and perhaps with other animals. He’s a wriggly, hyper, biting and temperamental (?)) “velcro” poodle who is attached to me merely because he spends nearly all his time with just me (I work from home) in the house or in the garden. He yelps and barks when I leave the room. I feel protective towards the puppy but mostly numb and even dread in the mornings. I wonder if I am depressed and if this is why I do not feel a bond. These horrid doubts and concerns make me feel guilty also and bad for the dog, mostly relief at the prospect of returning him. It has been a difficult decision to make.
I would absolutely love a video about puppy biting. My pup just turned 6 months old and the only thing I can do is quietly take her to her kennel for a break for both of us. Sometimes not so quietly if she is in the middle of the crazy zoomies and keeps flying at my two kids. When we catch her, we try to gently take her to her kennel for a time out for all of us.
Also would like to have a video on puppy biting! I no longer have a puppy (the land-shark I had has moved past that and is 7 now), but. . .honestly, I made all but one of these mistakes with her as a puppy and her first year and a half was an absolute nightmare. It was SO hard I did not enjoy it at all. I think the only reason we got through it is because I was too stubborn to give up. She was a horrific biter and NOTHING worked. Unfortunately, she kind of still is. It's shrunk down to being reactive about certain things, but she can and absolutely WILL still bite. I can't help but wonder if I'd handled her differently as a puppy if we couldn't have avoided this. But - little hard to say now. It is possible the reactivity was already there in just a wilder form. I also made the mistakes with exercise. -sigh- I've learned better since, but yeah. Don't get me wrong, she's a good dog now - still difficult - but over all, good. But I am continuing to try to learn how to do things better. Both for her, for any future dog I get - and who knows. Maybe someday I'll be a dog trainer. I'd like to be. Either way, more information, honing skills is a good thing for me, for my dog, for future dogs. I just hate that her puppyhood was such a disaster. :P And yes, a lot of it WAS mis-information, and on the good side, it made me scramble to find BETTER methods, and I have, but I still don't know the best ways to deal with things like. . puppy biting. (I know A better way, but is it the best? I don't know. I need more information!)
Subbed! I just moved into a room of a house where the landlords foster dogs from the overcrowded shelter nearby. I grew attached to a 6 month old Staffy (looks to be more of a pitbull). He likes to bite when we play and chew the blankets sometimes my clothes that I’m wearing. Any tips on training that behavior? He also likes to stand over the older smaller dogs a lot which piss them off but he’s learning.
This was more about what we are doing wrong and less about what to do...