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Fran grew up teaching everything from chickens and goats to dogs and horses. These days, Fran works with DOG GONE IT rottweiler rescue, is registered with AKC as a Canine Good Citizen Evaluator and continues to train dogs in Las Vegas, Nevada. She also writes a canine question & answer column for a local news paper, The Hilltop & High Desert Shopper News.
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Fran Williams
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2/24/2006
My dog is 8 months old and is yellow lab/blue heeler/Chesapeake bay. She was completely house trained, and only chewed up her own toys with the occasional mishap with the toilet paper. I recently started working again (I haven’t worked since we got her at 8 weeks.) Now she gets into everything, and only potties on the floor when my husband is gone for a couple days. She has doesn’t listen to me anymore only my husband. What can I do to get her back to the good doggie she was before I started to work? I buy her new toys all the time and try to pay extra attention to her when I’m home, and I even come home on my lunch break to play with her. But still nothing is helping. (blueyes44, Colorado)
This is a command problem and its called BOREDOM, when you come home for lunch would it be possible to take her for a walk instead of playing with her? She has lost respect for you so the best way to get that back is to work her on her manners such as Heel, Sit, Down and Stays. By working her you will help her mind stay busy and you will regain the respect you
need and also the bond between you will grow.
As for getting into every thing I would of course kept important things out of her reach but if she so much as tore up a paper in a loud voice (not screaming just strong) I would make her think it was the worst thing in the world and turn my back on her -not touch her, not play, just snub her after my loud "NO" and "Bad Girl" while picking up the mess, this is also the way to handle the accidents, unless she is being locked in the house and cannot get out but is still being allowed to eat and drink at free will. If this is the case then maybe you need to secure her yard so it’s safe for her to be outside, after all, at 8 months she is still a baby. She might be looking forward to your cleaning up her mess as time for you to be together.
She sounds like a bright girl so I am sure if you do this as I have suggested it will work its self out. Please be aware too much attention can make this problem worse-nice long constructive walks and correct tone of voice will go along way to help with this problem. Fran Dog Gone It
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