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Update on "Ideas on breed" and ???
We brought her home when we saw her on 8/02 (Friday). That night she was so scared (which made DH and I nervous around our kids, we know a frightened dog is an unpredictable dog). We haven't used a crate, we put her in our laundry room at night and when we're gone. We let her out on Saturday morning and she peed all over the place coming out in the morning. We had a temporary leash/collar and headed to PetSmart. When we got in the door the poor girl was too scared to even get off of the front rug. We let the boys pick out a leash (she didn't have one at her last home) and matching collar. She was not a fan in the least. The associate there gave us a stick of Pupperoni. That got her moving. We would tear off just a tiny piece and she'd take a few steps to us. She was walking on the leash wonderfully by the time we left. Later that day we discovered she had fleas. Gave her a bath with flea shampoo, brushed with a flea comb, and applied Advantix. By that time she was really coming out of her shell. By Sunday she was acting like she'd been here forever. Not sure how she was treated at her last home, she acts as if she wasn't fed enough or maybe food was put down and which dog was there was the one to be able to eat, she eats it all within 3 minutes every time (I feed her 1 cup 3x/day and 1.5 cup once per day).
She's doing really well, hasn't shown any kid of aggression. I take her food from her at times while eating to prevent food aggression (rarely, pretty much so she gets used to it that way if our boys ever do it she doesn't freak out) without even a 2nd look, she just waits for me to put it back (I was mostly afraid of the food aggression because of how crazy she scarfed it down, I was thinking maybe she had to snap the other dog at her last house to be able to eat). She is a hyper puppy and she's getting big fast, I can already see a noticeable difference in her size. Our vet confirmed that she is about 6m. We had no vet records and he didn't want to trust that she had been vaccinated like the previous owner had stated (I called random vets in her area, one said that they had the owner as a customer but no dog on file matching the description) so we started from scratch. DH and I get free vet service so I know it's not that he just wanted to make a few extra bucks. She was spayed last Wednesday (8/14) and is healing well. Poor girl does get sick in the car and drools uncontrollably though, we're trying to get her desensitized so we take her on short trips.
So here's my trouble. I've owned several dogs in my life that we've gotten as young puppies. This is the oldest dog I've ever gotten. She's about 50/50 housebroken. She'll do her business outside, has a doggie door, but will also go inside AT LEAST once per day. She has her favorite places, she likes to pee downstairs in our dining room, or pee and poop upstairs in our playroom but will also go in our room or the other bedrooms. Even if she's just gone out 30 minutes prior she may pee a bit on our carpet. I'm not sure if her age is making it more difficult, if it's at attitude issue, or if I just don't remember struggling this much for this long. It seemed like before a puppy would end up going a few times per day in the house but after a week or two it was rare to have an accident. I'm home all day so she's not locked up, she goes in and out of the doggie door all day, but she doesn't always go out to potty (sometimes will, sometimes won't).
While I'm at it. How can I deter the biting of things and mouthing of us without putting bitter apple on EVERYTHING. She's not teething, she has all of her dog teeth. If it wasn't for the chewing and going pee/poop in our house we'd leave her out when we left and at night, I hate locking her up at night, she looks so heartbroken every night.
The last pup we got was 2.5 months and was pretty easy. She's 7 now and lives with IL's, she loves it there and FIL can't be away from her (we brought her home a few weeks ago for a couple of days and both she and FIL were miserable the whole time). She had the normal puppy issues, but I don't remember her biting/housebreaking being this difficult so I don't know if it's just because this new pup was 6m when we got her or if I just don't remember accurately.
She's doing really well, hasn't shown any kid of aggression. I take her food from her at times while eating to prevent food aggression (rarely, pretty much so she gets used to it that way if our boys ever do it she doesn't freak out) without even a 2nd look, she just waits for me to put it back (I was mostly afraid of the food aggression because of how crazy she scarfed it down, I was thinking maybe she had to snap the other dog at her last house to be able to eat). She is a hyper puppy and she's getting big fast, I can already see a noticeable difference in her size. Our vet confirmed that she is about 6m. We had no vet records and he didn't want to trust that she had been vaccinated like the previous owner had stated (I called random vets in her area, one said that they had the owner as a customer but no dog on file matching the description) so we started from scratch. DH and I get free vet service so I know it's not that he just wanted to make a few extra bucks. She was spayed last Wednesday (8/14) and is healing well. Poor girl does get sick in the car and drools uncontrollably though, we're trying to get her desensitized so we take her on short trips.
So here's my trouble. I've owned several dogs in my life that we've gotten as young puppies. This is the oldest dog I've ever gotten. She's about 50/50 housebroken. She'll do her business outside, has a doggie door, but will also go inside AT LEAST once per day. She has her favorite places, she likes to pee downstairs in our dining room, or pee and poop upstairs in our playroom but will also go in our room or the other bedrooms. Even if she's just gone out 30 minutes prior she may pee a bit on our carpet. I'm not sure if her age is making it more difficult, if it's at attitude issue, or if I just don't remember struggling this much for this long. It seemed like before a puppy would end up going a few times per day in the house but after a week or two it was rare to have an accident. I'm home all day so she's not locked up, she goes in and out of the doggie door all day, but she doesn't always go out to potty (sometimes will, sometimes won't).
While I'm at it. How can I deter the biting of things and mouthing of us without putting bitter apple on EVERYTHING. She's not teething, she has all of her dog teeth. If it wasn't for the chewing and going pee/poop in our house we'd leave her out when we left and at night, I hate locking her up at night, she looks so heartbroken every night.
The last pup we got was 2.5 months and was pretty easy. She's 7 now and lives with IL's, she loves it there and FIL can't be away from her (we brought her home a few weeks ago for a couple of days and both she and FIL were miserable the whole time). She had the normal puppy issues, but I don't remember her biting/housebreaking being this difficult so I don't know if it's just because this new pup was 6m when we got her or if I just don't remember accurately.
GSx1 - 05/13/2013
