AmberP
November 9th, 2010, 03:46 PM
Two things, two suspects.
Suspect one is a 6 month old female Pomeranian, 10" and 7lbs. Female Pomeranian has been raised with other dogs and cats and is not reactive to them, the dog across the street, our Little Buddy the Papillon who escapes into our yard sometimes.
However, beginning I-don't-know-when and worsening now, she barks at dogs outside on leashes. It doesn't matter if she is on a leash or not, if they are, she barks at them. It started selectively (Otherwise, I'd know exactly when, I brushed off the first few incidents as flukes because my male occasionally surprise-barks at other dogs) and is now at almost everyone.
The other night we were walking and she EXPLODED, startling our group and a GSD across the street minding his own business with his owner. He did not respond, I scolded her and picked her up to carry her across the street, because she wasn't walking properly.
Today I put them both out on the front yard on their tie-outs, and someone was walking his large blond mix by. She stood on the porch with her head between the rungs and barked and howled loudly at the dog. I immediately brought her inside and scolded her. I then brought my male inside, because he had been quiet.
I do not abide barking dogs, but the only barking I had to deal with was when my male would bark from boredom in his crate. I've curbed that through a variety of ways, mainly figuring out how to keep him calm, comfortable, and happy while in his crate. I don't know how to deal with reactivity. I don't want to turn into the girl I saw the other day, yelling at her dog not to bark in an effort to forestall his barking. It didn't work.
Suspect two is a two and a half year old male Pomeranian, 14" and 10lbs. Male Pomeranian had a housetraining incident for several months. This has been curbed. He asks to go out and has not pooped or peed in the house in several weeks. The last incident was when he was let in and immediately ran and peed on the couch (Jumped on and squatted, not a drive-by leg-lift). I raised hell (I have a bad temper and had had a bad day) and his couch privileges were revoked for almost a month.
However, he has not been able to stand up to my plan of not letting him sleep out of his crate for fourteen days of no accidents in the house per each nightly accident. If he's not pooping in the house, though, where is he pooping, you ask? In his crate. Some nights I wake up and he has pooped. He has the same schedule every day and he doesn to do this every night, but about every 5/6 nights. It doesn't matter how late I let him out, how early I feed him, how many times he poops before he goes in, I will wake up to a mess in his crate that he is lying in.
His crate is actually two inches too short for him and, therefore, too small for him. However, he likes it that way. I can't really attribute the messing to thinking he can poop in one end and sleep in another, because he takes up the whole thing. He just poops and lies in it all night and cries at me in the morning to clean it up.
How can I curb this pooping behaviour?
How can I stop the barking behaviour in it's tracks?
Suspect one is a 6 month old female Pomeranian, 10" and 7lbs. Female Pomeranian has been raised with other dogs and cats and is not reactive to them, the dog across the street, our Little Buddy the Papillon who escapes into our yard sometimes.
However, beginning I-don't-know-when and worsening now, she barks at dogs outside on leashes. It doesn't matter if she is on a leash or not, if they are, she barks at them. It started selectively (Otherwise, I'd know exactly when, I brushed off the first few incidents as flukes because my male occasionally surprise-barks at other dogs) and is now at almost everyone.
The other night we were walking and she EXPLODED, startling our group and a GSD across the street minding his own business with his owner. He did not respond, I scolded her and picked her up to carry her across the street, because she wasn't walking properly.
Today I put them both out on the front yard on their tie-outs, and someone was walking his large blond mix by. She stood on the porch with her head between the rungs and barked and howled loudly at the dog. I immediately brought her inside and scolded her. I then brought my male inside, because he had been quiet.
I do not abide barking dogs, but the only barking I had to deal with was when my male would bark from boredom in his crate. I've curbed that through a variety of ways, mainly figuring out how to keep him calm, comfortable, and happy while in his crate. I don't know how to deal with reactivity. I don't want to turn into the girl I saw the other day, yelling at her dog not to bark in an effort to forestall his barking. It didn't work.
Suspect two is a two and a half year old male Pomeranian, 14" and 10lbs. Male Pomeranian had a housetraining incident for several months. This has been curbed. He asks to go out and has not pooped or peed in the house in several weeks. The last incident was when he was let in and immediately ran and peed on the couch (Jumped on and squatted, not a drive-by leg-lift). I raised hell (I have a bad temper and had had a bad day) and his couch privileges were revoked for almost a month.
However, he has not been able to stand up to my plan of not letting him sleep out of his crate for fourteen days of no accidents in the house per each nightly accident. If he's not pooping in the house, though, where is he pooping, you ask? In his crate. Some nights I wake up and he has pooped. He has the same schedule every day and he doesn to do this every night, but about every 5/6 nights. It doesn't matter how late I let him out, how early I feed him, how many times he poops before he goes in, I will wake up to a mess in his crate that he is lying in.
His crate is actually two inches too short for him and, therefore, too small for him. However, he likes it that way. I can't really attribute the messing to thinking he can poop in one end and sleep in another, because he takes up the whole thing. He just poops and lies in it all night and cries at me in the morning to clean it up.
How can I curb this pooping behaviour?
How can I stop the barking behaviour in it's tracks?