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Post by Faith on Sept 26, 2006 15:43:34 GMT -5
Try Getting her a kong. I got one for my beagle/shepard mix and she loves it. i usually give it to her before i leave the house for work. Then when i get home for her i take her for nice long walks. usually about an hour in the woods. by the time we get back she is so pooped from all the running around, and smells. she goes right to her bed and goes to sleep. To pound it in a little more dogs are social animals. they need your interaction. That is why you got a dog anyway isn't it?
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Post by sstevens on Oct 3, 2006 1:33:49 GMT -5
Long story short, we didn't know what we were getting in a Beagle. My wife is generally knowledable about dogs so I assumed they were a breed that she thought would fit well in our family and I ok'd it because I thought it would be neat to try to train her to rabbit hunt.
I would like to let her in the house more but when she is in the house I feel I need to constantly watch her so she doesn't pee on the carpet. She has only had 3 or so accidents since we brought her home but I do not enjoy cleaning up dog pee. She is also way too hyper in the house, she jumps up on the furniture, runs all over the house and she jumps on the baby which I don't like because she has rather sharp claws and she scratches/hurts him.
I understand that her minimal exercise and social time are contributing to the whining and hyper behaviour in the house and we are taking steps to increase her exercise and social time. We were simply looking for anything else we could do to eliminate this whining/yelping/barking in the crate as it is very agitating (we had to move her crate from the living room essentially into the garage).
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Post by maryellen on Oct 3, 2006 7:41:15 GMT -5
all puppies need proper guidance. the more they are in the house learning the rules the better they will get. the more you alienate her from your family the worse she will get. to stop the running around and being a puppy, put her leash on her and tie her to your hip, this way you can watch her,teach her house manners, and watch in case she has to go potty.. you have to start slow, she is just a baby with 4 legs instead of 2... i would get her into puppy obedience classes now. the whining in the crate will stop if you ignore it. remember, negative attention is just as good as positive attention.. she is trying to get you to let her out because she doesnt know the rules. if you ignore her whining eventually it will stop.. if you take her out of the crate when she whines she will learn that whining gets her out of the crate. i am seriously thinking that you and your wife should call beagle rescue, and hand over your pup to rescue.. she belongs in the house, learning manners and training, and with a baby in the house it sounds like you both just cant handle a puppy.. its ok, it happens, not many people can handle a baby and a puppy at the same time.. here is a site for beagle rescue clubs.akc.org/NBC/beagle_rescue.htmi would also hold off on getting another puppy if i were you, and concentrate on raising your child first.. if you decide to get another dog, get an adult, as what you see is what you get, and they are usually housebroken. cleaning up pee and poop with puppies is part of the package.. no one likes to do it, but it has to be done, as you are changing your childs diaper too, and that is cleaning up pee and poop... also, read the breed info before you bring another dog home .. you can go to www.akc.org and look up any breed of dog to see their info...
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Post by willow on Oct 3, 2006 9:50:11 GMT -5
all puppies need proper guidance. also, read the breed info before you bring another dog home .. you can go to www.akc.org and look up any breed of dog to see their info... I have found that ALL puppies of ALL breeds share the same things. They pee, poop, chew, whine, nip and while they are also very cute, they are a pain until they "get over" these stages, but as you said, Mary Ellen, they all need proper, consistant guidance/training to accomplish this. Also, ALL dogs of ALL breeds need exercise and training. One caution: Tying a puppy or dog to you. I am not a big fan of this, unless you are sitting down and just want to keep the puppy close to you so you can watch it and also teach it to lie quietly. If you are walking around with a puppy or dog tied to you, it could end in a disaster with the puppy being stepped on and getting seriously hurt (or even killed, depending on how big the puppy is) or the puppy/dog could trip you and you could be hurt! It is a much better idea to just let the puppy/dog trail the leash and you watch it like a hawk and grab the leash when it does something unacceptable...like start to potty in the house or chew on inappropriate objects. I have also found that if you take the puppy out OFTEN...sometimes as much as every 15 min. when they are very young, you can greatly minimize "accidents" and they learn not to go in the house much faster. How well your puppy of any breed does depends on how dedicated YOU are in helping it reach maturity as a well behaved, trained dog. NO dog of ANY breed trains itself and even if you get an older trained dog, you have to constantly keep refreshing what the dog knows. If you don't, it will soon be "un-trained".
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Post by maryellen on Oct 3, 2006 16:05:21 GMT -5
i tie pups to my waist figuratively LOL i keep their leash on and put it around my waist, while doing household stuff i practice obedience with them to, and teach them manners. whatever works is what really counts... and willow has alot of VERY VERY good points as well..
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Post by Aussienot on Oct 6, 2006 16:42:28 GMT -5
Yes, that's it exactly! Housetraining 101 in a single sentence. You must watch 100% of the time to prevent mistakes.
In the real world, this is not possible to focus 100% of your attention on a loose free running puppy. Especially when the phone is ringing, a pot is boiling over and you are taking a shower. That's why crate training is so important. When you also have the bigger committment to raising your child, the housetraining the puppy is really difficult to fit in. You have two infants on your hands - both need constant attention, structure and training to be good family members. (With the puppy it will only take a year or so. )
The jumping up can be fixed by never, ever ever giving her attention when she jumps up. When she was little it was cute, and she got petted for jumping up. Only pet when she has "four on the floor". If she jumps up, turn your back and ignore her. As soon as she jumps off, turn around and pet. If everyone does this consistently, she will soon stop jumping up.
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Post by Faith on Oct 8, 2006 15:46:43 GMT -5
Something else you could try is instead of confining her to a crate. try confining her to a room, like the kitchen. with her toys (of course) Your kitchen i am assuming has tile/linoleum floors, easy clean up for accidents. also that gives her more space to run around and play with her toys and also be closer to you. she may still whine and bark, but she might get used to it faster.
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Post by kaos on Oct 8, 2006 15:51:34 GMT -5
Sorry but I have to agree with the other comments here. You simply can't expect your pup to live in social isolation for a vast majority of the day and night. Given the small amount of time which you seem to spend with the pup I think the whining in the crate and barking in the outdoor kennel is completely understandable. The less time the pup spends outdoors, the harder the housetraining will be and the longer it will take. You can also expect the OTT behaviour when she is indoors as it seems to be the only time she gets attention from her family. Moving the crate further away from you is likely to make her even more miserable about being crated in this situation.
Exercise for puppies is important not only physically but in order to aid their mental and social development. Time on a treadmill will not allow her to see the world outside of your house, meet other people, dogs, strange sights, smells and sounds.
I think you need to think seriously about making some huge changes to this pup's daily routine, or if this is not possible then contacting the rescue as has been suggested.
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