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hi. i live with my parents and have these miscreant animals. I am unemployed so it is the perfect time to be productive and try to do *something* about geriatric dog's antics
that and I am inspired and sadded by dog training shows, knowing my confidence will never be good enough to have our dogs see me as some kind of master.
these animals are maybe around 13 or so years old, the one dog that has a lot of problems had eaten rat poison in her youth and it went though her system, this might have had effects on her brain, as this is the animal with the most problems.
I'm the only one in the house who is trying (it seems) my mom is fed up and is getting annoyed with both, and this blond one in particular. so she wants no input other than taking the 13ish old, rotten mouthed, house soiling dog 'byebye"
this dog seems to have little concept of play, so only food rewards are good, though she will have happy yips and playbound when my step dad comes home, she is pretty ignored. so I don't know what part of that effects her house soiling. I wake up to piddle puddles where he eats, i saw her piddle once nearly seconds after he left the house one day.but nobody is making the effort to do the "I won't leave you forever" doggie "peekaboo" game. this dog has been urinating in the house(and other house we had) from the day we had her. she can be walked/put outside, and you can come home after being gone for even as low as an hour and she'll still manage to pee. (plus it is so so mean to have the dog be without water for a second)
Crating is mean, she is to old to crate train (and omg what if she gets thirsty in the anytime we are gone, even if 4 hours at the mall)
we have the dog carrier, but it is mean to put them in. I have been placing her food bowl by her fave piddle spot, nature's miracle and other things don't de-scent enough. On new years eve we came home at 11:30/40 when I had went home to walk them at 9:30. she piddled where my mom eats in the dining room.
guess it is doggie diaper time, or hope to win a lifetime supply of wee-wee pads.
I don't care what people believe, or wooden floors have an importance, if having her be placed under a hamper for a cage will teach her I want to do it.
you can't train an emotional soililer who dosen't care about you can you? she'll cry and cry when my mom leaves the house. I guess she is her invisible lacky because she does nothing with this animal. she grunts and pees when my step dad leaves the house. if they are both gone in the summer to visit friends for weekend unwinding (outside, across the road/friends house 30 houses away from ours) she'll screech and cry all night. I can be right there and she dosen't care.
brushing this dog is impossible. its too much to spend money driving her to a groomer and paying
i'm doing it wrong and torturing her?
so I need to risk life and limb and hanging her. I'm the only one who brushes her. I've given up nagging about cutting her nails.
they've been kibble fed for a life time so her breath is rancid and smells like death,(and if I hold the paw to cut the nails, the hair is greesy and then my fingers stink. the way we cut the nails is she is held like a baby on the lap, and I knell down and hold the paws and try to clip away. she hates restraint and I don't want to be the single most person to gentle her to paw holding and be friendly with a nail grinder.)i cannot walk her nails down because she hates it. she slips out of the collar and waddles home.
Ok ok I know "NO you kill your dog with collars. use a harness" I guess that should be done, but she'll still plant her self or thrash around. "dog escapes runs away, dog will wander off aimlessly if let" so her old bones and claws aren't causing her so much pain she cannot locolate.
I am not putting my face near hairs to bend down and cut her claws. I don't live alone so now it is someone Else's "job". If my step dad likes keeping a half deaf, house soiling dog who tries to bite when she is groomed then he can do it, alone.
if i do go on my road of Independence and move out they'll have a joyful time being solely responsible for that blond Nina dog.
10x more house puddles. The best part is the vet says they both have heart mummers! so that means more urine because of the medication. Hurray! I hope she can live outside in the summer. Uh...dog houses aren't hard to make are they? or is she to old to be in the cold....in the dog house. She dosen't even like the perfect summer or spring day, with a dog bed, outside with food and water. she claws and cries at the door.
we have two dogs, the one is slightly more behaved, but we never hid with an air horn so she still knocks over the garbage can, even if it is just to eat bird poop off of newspaper, or tissues...what ever.
I am trying so hard to cure their obsessive foraging http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lly3XFlLttY
is there really no such thing as "old dog, no new tricks"? what about "possibly going senile,needs something"
I am tired of doing this myself.
help.
*note*
Nina will yap and go "rahhhh rahhhhh rwahh gwarp! " to go outside to 'potty' so this is not an issue of "my bladder is going to explode"
crying
that and I am inspired and sadded by dog training shows, knowing my confidence will never be good enough to have our dogs see me as some kind of master.
these animals are maybe around 13 or so years old, the one dog that has a lot of problems had eaten rat poison in her youth and it went though her system, this might have had effects on her brain, as this is the animal with the most problems.
I'm the only one in the house who is trying (it seems) my mom is fed up and is getting annoyed with both, and this blond one in particular. so she wants no input other than taking the 13ish old, rotten mouthed, house soiling dog 'byebye"
this dog seems to have little concept of play, so only food rewards are good, though she will have happy yips and playbound when my step dad comes home, she is pretty ignored. so I don't know what part of that effects her house soiling. I wake up to piddle puddles where he eats, i saw her piddle once nearly seconds after he left the house one day.but nobody is making the effort to do the "I won't leave you forever" doggie "peekaboo" game. this dog has been urinating in the house(and other house we had) from the day we had her. she can be walked/put outside, and you can come home after being gone for even as low as an hour and she'll still manage to pee. (plus it is so so mean to have the dog be without water for a second)
Crating is mean, she is to old to crate train (and omg what if she gets thirsty in the anytime we are gone, even if 4 hours at the mall)
we have the dog carrier, but it is mean to put them in. I have been placing her food bowl by her fave piddle spot, nature's miracle and other things don't de-scent enough. On new years eve we came home at 11:30/40 when I had went home to walk them at 9:30. she piddled where my mom eats in the dining room.
guess it is doggie diaper time, or hope to win a lifetime supply of wee-wee pads.
I don't care what people believe, or wooden floors have an importance, if having her be placed under a hamper for a cage will teach her I want to do it.
you can't train an emotional soililer who dosen't care about you can you? she'll cry and cry when my mom leaves the house. I guess she is her invisible lacky because she does nothing with this animal. she grunts and pees when my step dad leaves the house. if they are both gone in the summer to visit friends for weekend unwinding (outside, across the road/friends house 30 houses away from ours) she'll screech and cry all night. I can be right there and she dosen't care.
brushing this dog is impossible. its too much to spend money driving her to a groomer and paying
i'm doing it wrong and torturing her?
so I need to risk life and limb and hanging her. I'm the only one who brushes her. I've given up nagging about cutting her nails.
they've been kibble fed for a life time so her breath is rancid and smells like death,(and if I hold the paw to cut the nails, the hair is greesy and then my fingers stink. the way we cut the nails is she is held like a baby on the lap, and I knell down and hold the paws and try to clip away. she hates restraint and I don't want to be the single most person to gentle her to paw holding and be friendly with a nail grinder.)i cannot walk her nails down because she hates it. she slips out of the collar and waddles home.
Ok ok I know "NO you kill your dog with collars. use a harness" I guess that should be done, but she'll still plant her self or thrash around. "dog escapes runs away, dog will wander off aimlessly if let" so her old bones and claws aren't causing her so much pain she cannot locolate.
I am not putting my face near hairs to bend down and cut her claws. I don't live alone so now it is someone Else's "job". If my step dad likes keeping a half deaf, house soiling dog who tries to bite when she is groomed then he can do it, alone.
if i do go on my road of Independence and move out they'll have a joyful time being solely responsible for that blond Nina dog.
10x more house puddles. The best part is the vet says they both have heart mummers! so that means more urine because of the medication. Hurray! I hope she can live outside in the summer. Uh...dog houses aren't hard to make are they? or is she to old to be in the cold....in the dog house. She dosen't even like the perfect summer or spring day, with a dog bed, outside with food and water. she claws and cries at the door.
we have two dogs, the one is slightly more behaved, but we never hid with an air horn so she still knocks over the garbage can, even if it is just to eat bird poop off of newspaper, or tissues...what ever.
I am trying so hard to cure their obsessive foraging http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lly3XFlLttY
is there really no such thing as "old dog, no new tricks"? what about "possibly going senile,needs something"
I am tired of doing this myself.
help.
*note*
Nina will yap and go "rahhhh rahhhhh rwahh gwarp! " to go outside to 'potty' so this is not an issue of "my bladder is going to explode"
crying