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Zoe is 6 months old now and we've got so many problems with her and don't seem to be getting anywhere.
1. Potty training. She is peeing and pooping all over the place. We have gates and barriers everywhere we can limiting her to about 1/2 of the first floor. She is in her crate from midnight to 6 am. She will pee in her crate roughly one night a week...never poops there. I set a timer on my phone for 1.5 hrs and take her out religiously during the day. She will typically pee two or three times each time out. Sometimes she'll poop. When I bring her back in the house for the next 1.5 hr period, she will frequently pidddle or poop. Usually, the piddle is a puddle the size of a silver dollar but sometimes it is a big puddle. The vet says that she should be able to go much longer than 1.5 hrs bud gives no advice on how to get Zoe on board with that idea.
2. She eats everything. when she is outside to pee/poop, she is on a leash and she is much more interested in finding little twigs, bits of mulch bark or pine cones. I have to frequently retrieve that stuff from her mouth. I don't get it all so it ends up in her poop...I can't believe that is good. When in the house she wants to chew on pillows, shoes, furniture, her beds and toys. she rips her toys apart and then wants to eat the fiberfill stuffing. We've had her for 4 months now and she has destroyed 15 or 20 toys. Now, we only buy the industrial-strength toys but that just slows the destruction rate. All of the stuff she manages to chew off of the toys ends up in her poop of course.
3. Biting/mouthing and clawing. She isn't chomping down as hard as she used to but it still hurts. Along with the biting/mouthing she claws at my hands and arms. we keep her nails trimmed and filed but she can still draw blood once in a while. She doesn't seem to understand "no" (she does understand breakfast, lunch, dinner, sit, stay and "potty outside") We have rattle cans and squirt bottles that work once in a while. she loves to type on this laptop when I'm doing stuff like this. We give her 5 minute time-outs in her crate when she's being particularly hard on us. I play fetch with her for long periods until her tongue is hanging out and this helps for a little while.
We've had four dogs previously (1 Cocker and 3 Whippets) and we cared for our daughter's Beagle when she was a puppy. None of them were like this.
At first we thought the peeing might be from a UTI. We took her to the vet and though her urine checked out ok he had us do a 7-day regimen of antibiotics in case the labs were not right. No effect.
When Zoe is not doing the things above she is a nice, loving girl and we'd like to succeed with her but this is getting to be more than we can deal with long term.
What are we doing wrong here??
Zoe's Dad
1. Potty training. She is peeing and pooping all over the place. We have gates and barriers everywhere we can limiting her to about 1/2 of the first floor. She is in her crate from midnight to 6 am. She will pee in her crate roughly one night a week...never poops there. I set a timer on my phone for 1.5 hrs and take her out religiously during the day. She will typically pee two or three times each time out. Sometimes she'll poop. When I bring her back in the house for the next 1.5 hr period, she will frequently pidddle or poop. Usually, the piddle is a puddle the size of a silver dollar but sometimes it is a big puddle. The vet says that she should be able to go much longer than 1.5 hrs bud gives no advice on how to get Zoe on board with that idea.
2. She eats everything. when she is outside to pee/poop, she is on a leash and she is much more interested in finding little twigs, bits of mulch bark or pine cones. I have to frequently retrieve that stuff from her mouth. I don't get it all so it ends up in her poop...I can't believe that is good. When in the house she wants to chew on pillows, shoes, furniture, her beds and toys. she rips her toys apart and then wants to eat the fiberfill stuffing. We've had her for 4 months now and she has destroyed 15 or 20 toys. Now, we only buy the industrial-strength toys but that just slows the destruction rate. All of the stuff she manages to chew off of the toys ends up in her poop of course.
3. Biting/mouthing and clawing. She isn't chomping down as hard as she used to but it still hurts. Along with the biting/mouthing she claws at my hands and arms. we keep her nails trimmed and filed but she can still draw blood once in a while. She doesn't seem to understand "no" (she does understand breakfast, lunch, dinner, sit, stay and "potty outside") We have rattle cans and squirt bottles that work once in a while. she loves to type on this laptop when I'm doing stuff like this. We give her 5 minute time-outs in her crate when she's being particularly hard on us. I play fetch with her for long periods until her tongue is hanging out and this helps for a little while.
We've had four dogs previously (1 Cocker and 3 Whippets) and we cared for our daughter's Beagle when she was a puppy. None of them were like this.
At first we thought the peeing might be from a UTI. We took her to the vet and though her urine checked out ok he had us do a 7-day regimen of antibiotics in case the labs were not right. No effect.
When Zoe is not doing the things above she is a nice, loving girl and we'd like to succeed with her but this is getting to be more than we can deal with long term.
What are we doing wrong here??
Zoe's Dad
