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05-24-2004, 06:37 PM
I need advice desperately. My dogs are so bad. I have a two year old boxer mix and a two year old yellow lab mix, along with a pitbull (who is an angel -the exception).
My dogs are so bad --they've been thrown out of doggy day care for being the first dogs to break down the steel fencing. They're in runs, and I was told the workers can't handle them and that they are the worst dogs they've ever had there! The boxer likes to fence fight and has nipped one of the workers who was trying to grab him.
At home, they have just chewed up my third pair of shoes in three days. I didn't leave them out either. They were just beyond the dog gate, at the top landing. They must have lured them under the gate with their paws and brought them into the downstairs area for their afternoon snack.
I have scrathes all over from them jumping on me, particularly the lab. He also locks me out of the house on a continual basis. He jumps up on the door and literally locks the door when I go outside. He recently knocked me in the head with a steal garage door -jumping on it. The vet calls him a big oaf!
They jump up on the wide screen tv and steal anything on top of it and chew it to pieces. They also chewed a coffee table to pieces.
They refuse to acknowledge commands and dive around onto couches, beds, anything they please. When I try to reprimand them, they think I'm playing. The boxer has food aggression and must be fed seperately but goes nuts if he see anyone else with food. He also likes to wrestle his leash from me.
They ransack the garbage, jump on the countertops to search for food, drink out of the toilets, raid the sink, and will only follow one command -SIT and that's only for a treat. No freebies from these dogs. Oh, and did I mention they run away whenever the opportunity is available and do not come back. Forget about the "come" command. I have to lure them back with a bowl of food.
Here's the catch -I spent about $2000.00 to put them in training last year. They were away for a month and a half. By the time they returned they could walk on their leads better -that was it. Now, they pull again until they're tired.
Their situation: They use to sleep on the bed but the boxer (85 pound mush)was monolpolizing and pushing my husband and I off, so now they sleep in their crates and are confined to the downstairs part of the house. However, they were still awful and destructive when they slept with us, so I'm not quite conviced they are rebelling --except against our busy work schedule, maybe.
On the plus side --they love to cuddle and give kisses. So my question is: What do I do? I'm desperate. I would NEVER give up my dogs. They're like my children....but I'm at wits end!
Any advice would be appreciated. I don't know where to begin anymore.
My dogs are so bad --they've been thrown out of doggy day care for being the first dogs to break down the steel fencing. They're in runs, and I was told the workers can't handle them and that they are the worst dogs they've ever had there! The boxer likes to fence fight and has nipped one of the workers who was trying to grab him.
At home, they have just chewed up my third pair of shoes in three days. I didn't leave them out either. They were just beyond the dog gate, at the top landing. They must have lured them under the gate with their paws and brought them into the downstairs area for their afternoon snack.
I have scrathes all over from them jumping on me, particularly the lab. He also locks me out of the house on a continual basis. He jumps up on the door and literally locks the door when I go outside. He recently knocked me in the head with a steal garage door -jumping on it. The vet calls him a big oaf!
They jump up on the wide screen tv and steal anything on top of it and chew it to pieces. They also chewed a coffee table to pieces.
They refuse to acknowledge commands and dive around onto couches, beds, anything they please. When I try to reprimand them, they think I'm playing. The boxer has food aggression and must be fed seperately but goes nuts if he see anyone else with food. He also likes to wrestle his leash from me.
They ransack the garbage, jump on the countertops to search for food, drink out of the toilets, raid the sink, and will only follow one command -SIT and that's only for a treat. No freebies from these dogs. Oh, and did I mention they run away whenever the opportunity is available and do not come back. Forget about the "come" command. I have to lure them back with a bowl of food.
Here's the catch -I spent about $2000.00 to put them in training last year. They were away for a month and a half. By the time they returned they could walk on their leads better -that was it. Now, they pull again until they're tired.
Their situation: They use to sleep on the bed but the boxer (85 pound mush)was monolpolizing and pushing my husband and I off, so now they sleep in their crates and are confined to the downstairs part of the house. However, they were still awful and destructive when they slept with us, so I'm not quite conviced they are rebelling --except against our busy work schedule, maybe.
On the plus side --they love to cuddle and give kisses. So my question is: What do I do? I'm desperate. I would NEVER give up my dogs. They're like my children....but I'm at wits end!
Any advice would be appreciated. I don't know where to begin anymore.