Trouble with my dog

[deborah]

Hi again, I'll answer the best I can, and thank you for helping me out.
I understand most English but it is a bit hard 'just to talk' without
knowing exactly what to say...

I don't understand the situation at night, you say that the dog has
acess to
the garden in case of an emergency, what exactly do you mean? Is there
a doggy-door and fenced area?

No, what I ment by 'emergencies' was, that she at all times can walk
through our door, at daytime, in case she really has to go, and I'm not
there to talk her for a walk. In the nighttime there's really nothing to
do

I would take her out really late before we
went to bed, and let her out fairly early to go, and then right back
into
the crate. Eventually she got up later and later, and now she can
sleep all
morning without a problem. If you give a dog access to a place to go
ALL
the time, they get the idea that they don't HAVE to hold it in, and
they do
not learn HOW to hold it in! It makes a big difference having a dog
penned off, or crated for the night.

I guess so, and I agree with you. It is only through the day she can go
outside singlehanded, if she really needs to, and that's why I got
confused since she chose to do her business inside our house.

What kind of 'outdoor' scedual is the dog on? Dogs learn a set time of
when
to do something and when they are going to have a certain action
happen.
Like the time you leave in the morning, and when you return. I know
some
people have already touched on this, but to pay less attention to the
dog
when you leave and come home really can make a difference.

I have always tried to ignore her half an hour before leaving and same
thing until half an an hour after returning.
- She's getting better and better at that point. Now's she's just
excited, she no longer jumps up and down, peeping and so.

Normally I talk her for a short walk when I get up from bed after being
dressed. (It here needs to bed said, that I only sleep about 6 hours a
night, so she won't have to wait 10 hours from her evening walk for me to
get up again)
Then a half hour walk an hour-to half an hour before leaving, so she has
time to cool down. Then she get's a long walk when I've returned from the
university, and again just before suppertime, we usually walk around in
the forest for an hour or so, sometimes we 'miss' the woods, but then
I'll just take her for ar bit shorter walk somewhere else.
Just before bed, I've been trying to walk the same tour every night, so
that she can learn, that when we go like that, it's bedtime and she has
to do her business. It has really helped. For a week now (the time I've
been practising it) she hasn't had any troubles keeping it in.

She has shown great progrees in not to be peeing everywhere, but there
still is some troubles. Eg. right before typing this mail, I heard her
peeing for a very short time and then I copuld hear her pee... I took a
walk with her only half an hour earlier.. It is things like that, which
confuses, and to be honest, irretates me a bit, because I can't
understand why. But, I still try mu best not to be angry or use
bodylanguage that tells her that I am. I still believe, that positive
learning is the only way of learning
She still destroys a bit, but the damage is minimal. For one thing, I
know keep her in my bathroom with all her favourite toys and a nice bone.
The rest of the day, I just make sure that nothing is inside of
dogreach The trouble is, that our house is in two (stores? - is that
the correct word, I mean the word you use, when you have both a first and
a second floor... - hope you guys understand) so when I'm upstairs to
email you all for an example, she has every chance of being destructive
without me never knowing untill I get down and it's too late. But it is
going better and better.
Now she's just eating and destroying everything that even looks like
food - and paper - and tobacco of some reason...
But it sound worse than it is, I am actually quite proud of her. Since
the day my husband said, enough is enough, there hasn't been the problems
which couldn't be handled from time to time.
the only thing in which she hasn't shown progress yet, is concerning the
biting in people and clothes... She does not bite hard or anything, she
just does it all the time, even though I correct her each and every time.
But I guess it will come over time.
She is still very excited when she sees children. Even though she's still
a very yound pup, I have troubles in holding her, but that to is getting
better, since the kids now have known her for a while, and find her a bit
less interesting - then there's no longer the big 'hello-scenes' from
their side, so I think that'll get better to.
Unfortunately I do not know any kids, besides my siplings, which aren't
very good at saying "don't" when the dog jumps up at them and so. My
husbands siplings aren't doing very well at that either, guess there
should be a new class in their school 'how to act and behave around
animals'... Most kids could certainly use it

And btw a tip you probably all, already know... I've heard the advise of
giving the dog a T-shirt you've been wearing when you have to leave it or
you go to sleep, several times, but never really followed it (don't know
why I havn't);
My dog normally sleeps beneath my bed, and I put my clothes on a chair
right next to the bed. Every morning that I see that she hasn't destroyed
anything, she has, funy enough, stolen one of my
T-shirts and has been sleeping quite calmly on it all night. So it really
looks like it works, and since I wouldn't give her a T-shirt, she had to
take one for herself
She has never been destroying any clothes yet... and I hope she keeps it
that way
The CsW I had, ate my panties all the time, even when I had put them in a
certain basket where I keep my laundry, she could find and destroy them.
Then I got a box, that she couldn't open, and kept my panties in there -
then she just took my bra's instead... crazy dog

That's all for now...
All the best to you all,
Deborah