I really need advice on this one. My two beagles are night and day sometimes. Molly is highly intelligent, totally housebroken, but chews things up if I leave the house. She can be creative about it, but her preference is to open the cupboard and drag out Tupperware if I am late for her dinner. She really is a love and not a problem. Usually.
Baby is playing with a full deck, but they are all low cards. Baby doesn't chew things up. She is too scared. Baby is high strung, more so than Molly. While Molly will literally worry herself sick if I am gone too long, Baby has another way of expressing her separation anxiety. She leaves a turd in my bathroom. Since it is on a throw rug and I have allowed them to use throw rugs due to my previous job that kept me gone sometimes up to 12 hours at a time, I have ignored the little turds, cleaning them up without any punishment. Now she is peeing on my bedroom carpet. That is not OK. I put down a puppy pee pee pad, and left the house. She used it. I was pleased and told her so. She hasn't peed on one since, but she is using the carpet. I tried time outs in the laundry room with no luck.
I realize I have spoiled these dogs. I don't think it would be right to suddenly force extreme obedience and deprivation of affection on them. I don't want to crate Baby, since Molly doesn't need it and I am pretty sure Molly would freak. If I shut my bedroom door, they will have no windows to look out due to the other rooms I have them blocked from when I am gone.
I need some suggestions! I trained my former dog not to sneak downstairs to the family room by covering the floor with plastic drop cloths. Dogs do not like to get their feet wet. I am just afraid of where Baby will start peeing if I keep her out of my room when I am not home. Help! Molly is 6, Baby is 5.
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I honestly dont know....Lexy does the same thing about pooping if I am gone too long or she is mad at me. When I work, I put her in the hallway and put up a baby gate. She is a lil dog so she does not require alot of room. I leave the bathroom door open too so that she can go in there if she wants too, I also leave a puppy pad down....sometimes she uses it and sometimes she doesn't.
hugs,
Kathi
I don't know if you've ever heard this before because I hadn't. They said NEVER clean up after the dog in front of them. And that when you clean up, use vinegar as it takes away the pee smell. Other than that, I'm clueless! Our puppy shredded our blankets when we were gone on Halloween and had left the porch light on. I think he was frustrated and obviously anxious about us being gone with so much activity at our door. He's been good before and after that incident.
Monica
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I don't really know. Wish I could help you with this one. Maybe some childproofing locks for the cabinets though...
~Heather
Teach the cat to kick the dogs' butts at any sign of badness.
Aunt Dubby
Sorry, I have no advice. My dog 'Miah is spoiled, too. He never tore up any thing of mine, but when Jen was living at home he broke her TV remote by chewing it until the batteries fell out, pranced downstairs with her underwear, socks, whatever just to piss her off when Jen ignored him, from her bedroom. Miah constantly did things like that for revenge when ignored. He hasn't done that since Jen left home. Maybe he was jealous of her?
Check with your Vet or some of the pet stores to see if there's some advice they can impart, Suzy.
Best wishes,
Debi
You are thinking of crate as a bad thing for dogs: "Molly doesn't need it." It's the opposite. A crate gives a dog one safe, warm, dark place that is theirs, all theirs. At first they will not be wild about the crate. But eventually, it is home. My old lab used to go to her crate instantly when she was about to get in trouble for something (e.g., eating kitchen cabinets), because she knew it was 'safe.' She would nap there, eschewing the nice soft couch, and would hide her favorite toys there so the housekeeper would not put them away! I'm a firm believer in crating dogs, not as a punishment but as a special doggie place.
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