Horrible experience @ pet store...

**Bronx'sBower** · 08-09-2006, 10:15 PM

I don't know if I would ever get him "de-barked" because 98% of the time he is barking he has a reason; it's just when we start playing or company comes over and he gets excited, thats when he acts up the most. In someways I enjoy his whining...hard to understand I am sure but he does this whine that sort of sounds like E.T. and I find it amuzing. Plus through his whines I can guess what it is he wants, he makes all sorts of noises! When the vet said he was a vocal dog, he wasn't joking. But he also wasn't joking when he said he sounds and acts like an 8 day wound up clock...
I just mostly need to gain leadership, I think I have now come to the conclusion that instead of really stepping in and taking control I have not only possibly made the situation worse but I also took the easy way out.

PS-I forgot to mention that he has been neutered-it was about 3 weeks ago. I thought males settled down afterward? Not him! He was running around crazy last week, running from room to room and almost jumped through the window, he actually jumped on the ledge like he was going to sit but he forgot the ledge is only 4 inches wide-basically half the size of his butt-he quickly fell off and settled down because I put him in his crate....I was amazed he acted that crazy, he never had before and never has since.

**K9karen** · 08-09-2006, 10:59 PM

Geez, everyone's a expert and critic.

Regardless of right, wrong, maybe, whatever, her job is to cashier. Period. You have to email or call the company and complain. When I worked a second job as a sales clerk in a local major department store, a fellow employee got canned for criticizing a customer's taste in clothes. You're the consumer, you basically pay their salary so complain. Don't let those nitwits affect you. You do what's best for you and your situation.