I realized today that I have spent the majority of my time the past few weeks daydreaming. I don't really think I've done this since I was a kid. I kind of enjoy it, and on the other hand, it's a little depressing. I daydream about material things mostly, or getting another dog, even though the one I currently have is driving me nuts!!
Very well behaved puppy... until about a week after I moved into the new house... and the first week, she was great, loves the new place, loves running around, and so forth... then, one day... she turned into super bitch. She now gets into the trash, I yell at her and use the ''mom'' voice, she'd slink away, seemingly knowing that she did wrong.... half an hour later.... catch her in the act AGAIN. I smack her butt, no, I do not abuse my dog, but I smacked her bum and told her ''bad!''... repeat slink away... half an hour later...... guess who ripped open the trash that I tied up, was in the garbage can with the lid on it (the whole time), and is strewing it about the kitchen? My dog. I yelled at her, didn't smack her, I didn't know what to do. So I put her in the dinning room for a little bit while I cleaned up. Now, for those of you wondering, I free feed for the most part... She gets three solid meals a day. Most of the time, I give her food, she'll eat about three fourths of it, snack on the rest when she feels like it, then when her bowl is empty, if I don't refill it by the time she's hungry again, she'll come where ever I am in the house, stand there and stare at me, I ask ''what do you want'', she'll wag her tail, and I get up and follow her to either the door to let her out, or her food dish to refill it. Yes, she has me well trained, but I appreciate that she does this. So, the next day... she gets into the NEW trash, then I yell at her, she slinks away, a short time later, the male makes a sandwich, turns his back for a second... BOOM, my once perfectly mannered puppy has her front paws on the counter and takes the sandwich off the counter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She has NEVER, EVER, EVER done anything like this before!!! I never gave her ''people'' food, as I, just personally don't do it, and I can't stand dogs (or other pets) that beg. She's 11 months old now, and seriously WTF. To my knowledge pets are supposed to progress, not REGRESS! Oh, and a few weeks ago, she also peed on my snowboard pants that were drying on the heater... after she had all ready been outside, and is now severely acting out and being very disobedient... to the point where I almost ran her over with death jeep TWICE, within two minutes.
She gets plenty of love, attention, and lots of exercise... I'm thinking maybe it's mental stimulation that she needs, most likely just bored, or a phase. One of my assistants said her Lab did something similar about that age.... duh, it's a Lab and most of the time they're hyperactive, bad dogs to begin with, so that's no surprise. But she did say hers got better.
But seriously, she isn't a fan of the Kong toys, so no entertainment for her there, we have daily training sessions, which she aces, we play fetch either outside or inside if it's snowing too much. I even have started playing ''hide and seek'' with her to keep her busy through out the day. Yes, I hide, and yes, she has horrible dog senses and just runs around looking for me instead of using her nose... like when I'm standing behind an open door, in an open room, watching her through the opening where the hinges are, and she'll run right past me, about five times, before I have to say something else while she's standing on the other side of the door. Trick smart... otherwise, great, I have a natural air head chick as a dog.
At first I started to leave her out with the run of the house, until she started chewing up my belongings... so I put her in the bathroom when I'd leave for a little bit if I wasn't taking her with me, she started destroying the bathroom... even with her toys and bully stick (bull penis) in it. So, now, she's showing symptoms of separation anxiety... but only the chewing up stuff... like the walls, or trim, or the rug. So, it seems someone is going to have to go back to puppy hood and be in a crate when I leave her at home... Oh, and she ate part of the wall in the dinning room when I tired leaving her in there. That is coming out of my security deposit. Awesome.
She used to only really be a bit of a shit at work... mainly with jumping on the women in the office.... which I would yell at ALL of them for her doing it, and them allowing her to do it... and they'd say ''oh, it's fine''... and I'd reply... "No, it's really not, because I'm teaching her NOT to do that''... oi. So, now my dog is being an asshole ALL the time, not just at work. At work is one thing... even though she goes with me every day for the most part, she still turns ultra spazz when we get there. Which I've been working on, and keeping her on leash the whole time until I put her in the play yard, which curbs the behavior, but doesn't cure it, since as soon as she's off leash again, guess what she's back to doing....... except with ''heel''.... that's the only thing she still does perfectly (99,9% of the time) off leash. The only thing I can think at this point, is a remote training collar... because now she's taking food off the table when I walk into the living room. Yelling doesn't work, giving her a smack on the butt doesn't work, and I'm not about start trouncing my dog... the only time I punched a dog was a few years back when a Lab mix decided it was going to try to separate my quad muscle from my bone, when it was just fine, then walked under the table, and without warning, grabbed my leg, bit down, and started wrenching it's head from side to side as hard as possible. I punched it with everything I had, it let go of my leg, fell to the floor, got up and staggered out of the room. The owner of the dog, my former friend said ''oh, he must like you, normally he puts people in the hospital''... really... needless to say, I informed them that their dog should be put down if he behaves like that all the time, that they are fucked up people for LETTING him do that all the time, etc and so forth''... and I never spoke to them again.... She calls me crying a few months later that they had to put him down because he went after her dad. I told her ''good'' and hung up the phone. Let your dog be a dog, but have CONTROL over your dog... especially if you know what he's like, since she, her dad, and her mom, got him when he was a baby.
At this point, I'm just frustrated with mine. I don't have the issue of having to worry that she is going to bite anyone... poodles aren't aggressive, although vocal.... she's well socialized, and WAS well trained. I'm hoping it's a phase, we'll see. But for fucks sake!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Court Tuesday for the citation of me not having a collar on her while she's in my car. Yeah, fuck that bullshit. Collars mat her fur, the rolled leather ones were the best, but they bleed, and with a dog with white fur.... or ''electric banana'' (thank you Manic Panic) and white fur, that is unacceptable.
Very well behaved puppy... until about a week after I moved into the new house... and the first week, she was great, loves the new place, loves running around, and so forth... then, one day... she turned into super bitch. She now gets into the trash, I yell at her and use the ''mom'' voice, she'd slink away, seemingly knowing that she did wrong.... half an hour later.... catch her in the act AGAIN. I smack her butt, no, I do not abuse my dog, but I smacked her bum and told her ''bad!''... repeat slink away... half an hour later...... guess who ripped open the trash that I tied up, was in the garbage can with the lid on it (the whole time), and is strewing it about the kitchen? My dog. I yelled at her, didn't smack her, I didn't know what to do. So I put her in the dinning room for a little bit while I cleaned up. Now, for those of you wondering, I free feed for the most part... She gets three solid meals a day. Most of the time, I give her food, she'll eat about three fourths of it, snack on the rest when she feels like it, then when her bowl is empty, if I don't refill it by the time she's hungry again, she'll come where ever I am in the house, stand there and stare at me, I ask ''what do you want'', she'll wag her tail, and I get up and follow her to either the door to let her out, or her food dish to refill it. Yes, she has me well trained, but I appreciate that she does this. So, the next day... she gets into the NEW trash, then I yell at her, she slinks away, a short time later, the male makes a sandwich, turns his back for a second... BOOM, my once perfectly mannered puppy has her front paws on the counter and takes the sandwich off the counter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She has NEVER, EVER, EVER done anything like this before!!! I never gave her ''people'' food, as I, just personally don't do it, and I can't stand dogs (or other pets) that beg. She's 11 months old now, and seriously WTF. To my knowledge pets are supposed to progress, not REGRESS! Oh, and a few weeks ago, she also peed on my snowboard pants that were drying on the heater... after she had all ready been outside, and is now severely acting out and being very disobedient... to the point where I almost ran her over with death jeep TWICE, within two minutes.
She gets plenty of love, attention, and lots of exercise... I'm thinking maybe it's mental stimulation that she needs, most likely just bored, or a phase. One of my assistants said her Lab did something similar about that age.... duh, it's a Lab and most of the time they're hyperactive, bad dogs to begin with, so that's no surprise. But she did say hers got better.
But seriously, she isn't a fan of the Kong toys, so no entertainment for her there, we have daily training sessions, which she aces, we play fetch either outside or inside if it's snowing too much. I even have started playing ''hide and seek'' with her to keep her busy through out the day. Yes, I hide, and yes, she has horrible dog senses and just runs around looking for me instead of using her nose... like when I'm standing behind an open door, in an open room, watching her through the opening where the hinges are, and she'll run right past me, about five times, before I have to say something else while she's standing on the other side of the door. Trick smart... otherwise, great, I have a natural air head chick as a dog.
At first I started to leave her out with the run of the house, until she started chewing up my belongings... so I put her in the bathroom when I'd leave for a little bit if I wasn't taking her with me, she started destroying the bathroom... even with her toys and bully stick (bull penis) in it. So, now, she's showing symptoms of separation anxiety... but only the chewing up stuff... like the walls, or trim, or the rug. So, it seems someone is going to have to go back to puppy hood and be in a crate when I leave her at home... Oh, and she ate part of the wall in the dinning room when I tired leaving her in there. That is coming out of my security deposit. Awesome.
She used to only really be a bit of a shit at work... mainly with jumping on the women in the office.... which I would yell at ALL of them for her doing it, and them allowing her to do it... and they'd say ''oh, it's fine''... and I'd reply... "No, it's really not, because I'm teaching her NOT to do that''... oi. So, now my dog is being an asshole ALL the time, not just at work. At work is one thing... even though she goes with me every day for the most part, she still turns ultra spazz when we get there. Which I've been working on, and keeping her on leash the whole time until I put her in the play yard, which curbs the behavior, but doesn't cure it, since as soon as she's off leash again, guess what she's back to doing....... except with ''heel''.... that's the only thing she still does perfectly (99,9% of the time) off leash. The only thing I can think at this point, is a remote training collar... because now she's taking food off the table when I walk into the living room. Yelling doesn't work, giving her a smack on the butt doesn't work, and I'm not about start trouncing my dog... the only time I punched a dog was a few years back when a Lab mix decided it was going to try to separate my quad muscle from my bone, when it was just fine, then walked under the table, and without warning, grabbed my leg, bit down, and started wrenching it's head from side to side as hard as possible. I punched it with everything I had, it let go of my leg, fell to the floor, got up and staggered out of the room. The owner of the dog, my former friend said ''oh, he must like you, normally he puts people in the hospital''... really... needless to say, I informed them that their dog should be put down if he behaves like that all the time, that they are fucked up people for LETTING him do that all the time, etc and so forth''... and I never spoke to them again.... She calls me crying a few months later that they had to put him down because he went after her dad. I told her ''good'' and hung up the phone. Let your dog be a dog, but have CONTROL over your dog... especially if you know what he's like, since she, her dad, and her mom, got him when he was a baby.
At this point, I'm just frustrated with mine. I don't have the issue of having to worry that she is going to bite anyone... poodles aren't aggressive, although vocal.... she's well socialized, and WAS well trained. I'm hoping it's a phase, we'll see. But for fucks sake!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Court Tuesday for the citation of me not having a collar on her while she's in my car. Yeah, fuck that bullshit. Collars mat her fur, the rolled leather ones were the best, but they bleed, and with a dog with white fur.... or ''electric banana'' (thank you Manic Panic) and white fur, that is unacceptable.