Help!! My Weimaraner is destroying everything!

[wolfie]

Everyone gave some good advice. One thing I have to add, is give him more exercise! Weims are very energetic dogs

from this website

" A Tired Weim is a Good Weim;
An Exhausted Weim is a Great Weim!

Weimaraners were developed as pointing dogs to search independently for game. This trait is revealed in their ability to hunt and run during a full day of hunting for as long as six hours. As Chris Walkowicz notes in The Perfect Match, "This kind of energy will explode if the dog is expected to be content with a stroll around the block and a once-a-day pat on the head." Weimaraners need abundant physical activity plus mental challenges to be content. Hunting, running, bicycling, hiking, swimming, retrieving, and romping through safe fields are all great ways for Weimaraners to exercise. Obedience training and tracking are good problem solving exercises for the ever-active Weimaraner mind. As Margolis notes, "If their pent-up energy is not released in some positive form, they are capable of destroying entire apartments." "

[tz1]

Agree with wolfie. Whenever zero misbehaves it's because he wants to WORK! So I take the pup to work...I run his furry butt until he or I can't stand anymore lol!

[blueweim]

I feel your pain. My weim is currently crate trained. All we have to do is say "bed time" and she runs up the stairs and gets in and awaits her treat. However more recently she hits the cage and bangs on it so hard when we are gone that sometime the crate door unlatches and lifts up and she gets out. This has only happened to us once in our home but when we travel it happens nearly everytime we leave the house we are staying in. Once she pulled the metal of the crate so hard with her teeth that she bent it just enough for it to release the hooks in the upper corner. She then somehow squeezed through the top right corner of our extra-large metal crate and got out. She had two cuts above her eye that are still healing. I am worried that she could blind herself, or cut herself and bleed, or break a tooth trying to get out. I've read multiple articles about "do's & don'ts" for behavior like this but don't know quite what to do. We do baby her a lot & she gets a lot of attention from us. Is this our problem?

She also has a bad time in the car. We have to tie her to the door handle with her leash. The she chokes herself trying to get to us in the front seat. It just breaks my heart to see her upset like that. If we did let her roam around the back seat she would try to get into the front seat and down by the drives feet to hide -- which she has done on a major highway once -- very scary!

We don't know what to do. Anyone have anymore suggestions for another weim lover that can't handle the separation?