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AyeH
United States534 Posts
Any dog owners here with experience with young puppies? I have never had a puppy this age and don't know how to deal with the eating poop part. I googled but I'm getting inconclusive results. Some say to put meat tenderizer in their food to stink up their poop. I just want some advice from people with first hand experience in dealing with puppies and their annoying habits..  | ||
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Zerkaszhan
Canada120 Posts
to stop it pick up the poop when he does it and chastise him if u catch him eating it and the same with the other issues you need to give a puppy boundaries. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32274 Posts
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
On March 12 2011 16:09 IntoTheWow wrote: think of it as a baby. A permanent baby. He's probably biting and barking because he wants to do something. He needs to exercise. I know it's late now, so play with him. But during the day you need do activities with him, so he gets tired and sleeps at night. it goes on walks daily though! puppies got too much energy.... maybe it'll slow down once it hits 6months or more. | ||
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Powerpill
United States1693 Posts
She never ate her own poo though.. Just catch your pup in the act while he is eating it and let him know it is unacceptable behavior (tap his side and strongly say NO or something similar, then pick him up and move him away from the fecal appetizers..)  | ||
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Candide
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and sleeps.. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
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CanucksJC
Canada1241 Posts
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NovemberZerg
United States58 Posts
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nemY
United States3119 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.cutepuppiesforsale.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Yorkshire-Terrier-Puppies-For-Sale.jpg) Annoying isn't it? Anyways what the ITW said about the baby is pretty much true. You have to give that puppy A LOT of attention. Good luck playing Starcraft with that sucker around. This was my "puppy" + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/2689/max1x.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/7308/max2.jpg) American Bulldog ftw! 90 lbs of pure puppy that liked to sleep on my chest. You know how I got him tired? How I got him to curl up on my dirty laundry pile in my picture? How I got him to lie down and relax while I played video games? I PLAYED WITH HIM FIRST. If your dog likes to eat shit (which I think most dogs too) throw him on a leash when you take him out to shit so that way you can tug him away from it afterwards, he'll learn. When walking your lil Terrier pup probably he probably won't even need to be taken that far. Just walk him around the block once and he'll be good to go lol. You said you walk him daily, right? Walk him 2 times per day, if not more. Just play with him dude, get him excited and riled up; he'll calm down at night. | ||
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AeonStrife
United States918 Posts
On March 12 2011 16:48 CanucksJC wrote: you gotta be hard when it's still young. yell, tap him in the nose with rolled paper, anything. Yeah man, grow some balls. Beat that dog up. Be the dominant one. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://buttersafe.com/comics/2011-03-03-Obedience.jpg) | ||
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Zerkaszhan
Canada120 Posts
I have a two dogs a German Shepard and a Cane Corso Pitbull Two amazing animals All dogs need boundaries and you might think your being cruel by slapping it on the ass or hitting its side but the thing it the dog will only resent you if you do it for no reason if it does an action that warrants the discipline then they learn not to do that action For the shepard he used to eat his crap he grew out of it he also got yelled at alot the pitbull never ate his shit but he loved to roll in other animals shit we just spray him with the hose and he hates that so he stopped doing it. | ||
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stenole
Norway868 Posts
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Tonkerchen
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ZombiesOMG
United States282 Posts
Roommates 1 and 2 have been exceedingly soft on her 'activities' which include past times such as: pooping and peeing in the house(even with the door to the backyard wide open!), chewing through lamp wires, eating shoes, eating garbage, you get the idea. Fact is, I've even caught them petting and 'baby-talking' the puppy right after cleaning her poo off the floor! This won't do, and it certainly won't train a dog to go outside for business. Fact is, yelling at the dog once you find it's 'presents' in the house won't help either. If it's after the incident, the dog wont have any idea why it's being scolded and may begin to attribute being called over to you with punishment. You have to actually CATCH the dog in the act and scold it at that moment for it to know what exactly it's being punished for. I imagine similar measures go for a dog that is eating its dumps too. You gotta be hard on the pup. For example. 3 weeks ago I moved in with my two friends listed as Roomies 1&2 above. For the first couple days, this dog would go in the house for me to find later. Since I figured out she tries to do this out of human sight, I'd just keep my eye on her at all times (annoying to have to babysit so closely, but it is a baby after all I guess). Anyway, I caught her in the act a couple times, scolded her sternly and put her outside as punishment. Since my first week here, she has since stopped going to the bathroom in the house when I am at home. However, she will still do it when I'm gone but another roommate is home. I attribute this to them essentially rewarding her bad behavior previously. She either thinks it's something they'll praise her for, or she just knows she can get away with it around them. More related to your problem though, is her most recent hobby: Going out into the yard, finding a log she laid previously and then bringing it back into the house! Ugh, it's not quite eating, but its still disgusting. I'm dealing with it similar to the pooping in the house ordeal. Whenever she even sniffs near her chocolate children I clap my hands once loudly and yell at her to stop. She's learning quickly. Perhaps you can try a similar method, OP. Oh yeah, I also play with her for long periods of time every evening after work. So much fun, and shes super energetic. After a lengthy play session she's tired as hell, and curls up to relax. She's so much more well behaved after roughhousing, fetch, tug, whatever it's like a different dog lol. Long post for something very simple to say. Sorry, guess I'm just very talkative tonight haha. | ||
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HULKAMANIA
United States1219 Posts
On March 12 2011 16:09 IntoTheWow wrote: think of it as a baby. A permanent baby. He's probably biting and barking because he wants to do something. He needs to exercise. I know it's late now, so play with him. But during the day you need do activities with him, so he gets tired and sleeps at night. +1 The behaviors you've described (aside from the poo eating, which is just one of the nasty things that dogs do) sound to me like they're resulting from too little exercise. Write this down on your soul: Tired dogs have happy owners. If you have a small, energetic dog, you're probably looking at an hour and a half per day minimum. That might sound like a big figure to you. To a lot of people it is. But I guarantee you that if you hit that amount of good, solid playtime per day for a week or so, you'll see a much more composed and docile dog. If you want some ideas on how to hit that, here they are: 1) walks: Old faithful. I would recommend two forty-five minute walks rather than one hour and a half chunk. The upside is that this is a low-tech and simple solution. The downside is that it can get boring as hell if you're doing fourteen walks a week. 2) dog parks: If you have a dog park nearby, become a regular there. Honestly, I think that dog parks are fucking wonderful. There are two huge draws to them. One is that other dogs will play with your dog, and you're free to be as involved or uninvolved as you want. Two is that the constant influx of new dogs and people that your dog will meet at the park will help to socialize and calm your dog a great deal. The only downsides to the dog park are that you might have to drive to get there and that you do have to keep an eye out for the occasional aggressive dog (when you first start going, though, you're liable to interpret playing as fighting. Dogs can be rough as shit with each other and still be having a good time. Watch for hackles and tucked tails, and listen for yelps. That's when you need to step in. Otherwise chances are they're just wrestling, which is great for tiring a dog out). 3) in house obstacle courses: I had to invent this for my first dog because I live in an apartment and he was high energy as hell. You can get imaginative. My most basic design just involved putting chairs down in the hallway so that he had to jump over them to fetch the ball. It tired him out much more than just running back and forth down the hall. But I've made ramps and tunnels and walls and all sorts of nonsense just to make sure he has to actually work for the ball. Kind of a pain in the ass to set-up/clean-up, but the effort has saved me a lot of dog annoyance on rainy days. The way I see it, you can view getting your dog some exercise as a chore, in which case shooting for an hour and a half a day really sucks. Or you can view it as the reason you got the dog in the first place, a little bit of daily companionship, in which case I think it's pretty enjoyable and even kind of relaxing. But the bottom line is that frequent exercise takes care of about 70-80% of behavior problems right off the bat, at least in the case of a young dog that's got a lot of energy to spare. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
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McDonalds
Liechtenstein2244 Posts
Edit: Haha oh ok you're getting the book. Well good. | ||
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don_kyuhote
3006 Posts
Drives you nuts! And I think Yorkies are kind of known for barking a lot. | ||
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Ilvy
Germany2445 Posts
Reading the book is a good start | ||
lilsusie
3861 Posts
He bites everything because that's what puppies do. You think he's bad now, just wait until he's teething... and then teething again. Buy him lots and lots of chew things and make sure he knows what he can chew and what he cannot. If you have cords around the house, you wanna puppy-proof your house. It's pretty simple - that's what you would do if you had a human baby too, right? Let him play a lot. A LOT. Get him one of those balls that disperse food slowly for when he eats so that he can roll the ball around for play + exercise + eat slower for more digestion. My dog still loves his Kong, he chews on that for hours. Might want to get one of those. Remember that you're his owner, but also remember that he's a baby. Be strict but don't make him fear you. It's your responsibility as a PUPPY owner to pick up after him right away; you can't get mad at him for doing something that he doesn't realize is the wrong thing to do. When you catch him in the act, make a loud noise, NEVER hit your puppy. GL. | ||
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ibutoss
Australia341 Posts
The only thing I'd disagree with is being strict/yelling at him for eating his poop. Some dogs actually get scared of their owners reactions and eat it to hide it from them. I'd also suggest this book, http://www.amazon.com/Its-Me-Dog-Have-Perfect/dp/1401308554 | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
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