Yep, Oban was 18 months too. At what I swear is the age I see most people complaining about horrible puppy behaviour, 9 months, he got his CGN. Then he waited another 9 months.
Oh my, I'm intimidated a bit when axel talks back to me and he's only 6 months. I can't imagine a full grown dog doing that and mouthing.
Mabel got her KC bronze good citizen award at 6 months old. We are still working on silver. I'm not giving up there's always a glimmer of hope, recall from a fox yesterday.
I mind him off visiting too , he's no road sense at all ! Very lucky with our neighbours too , who have all been through it with their dogs and their quirky behaviours
Kelsey, mine rips anything that is fabric or rope or string.......it takes him 5 minutes at the most to get to the stuffing, or undo the rope....and, as you say, he then poops "rainbows"! I only buy Nylabones and Kongs. And even Nylabones ultimately get chewed to pieces but they last a long time. I used to keep buying him pretty toys but no more....a waste of money. Good luck!
Kelsey,Dexter is the same as Yvonne's dog ,he can't be trusted with any soft toys...he just guts them ....in fact if I gave him a tennis ball and left him he'd shred it...but he wouldn't when we are playing /training.His toys are nylabones,horrible plastic things that he's never just left to chew on unsupervised as he's a determined cruncher....IFrozen kongs,he has a Kong wobbler,a treat ball dispenser.hes got a collection of footballs ....thin plastic ones we play with together and the heavy leather ones he gets to gnaw on as they survive. I love seeing some of the forum dogs cuddled up to their soft toys....just never going to happen in our house !
Right, Angela.....I also miss Cooper cuddling up to a toy.....like some Forum members call their "lambies" ......not a chance. I once gave him a special fabric rugby ball that cost $15.00 dollars and,luckily, I took a photo of him with it because in less than 2 minutes there was so much stuffing all over the floor....I was flabbergasted that so much stuffing could be in this ball....right then and there I decided NO MORE!! Nylabones and Kongs...
I have shed many tears when Finn was that age. Finn is our 3rd lab but never experienced this kind of behavior....the other 2 were 'easy going'.... We even neutered Finn. There was no difference in behavior before or after. We even thought it was becoming worse for he became frightened of everything, barks at a fly in front of him. He is 2/5 years of age. Just want to say as everyone is saying,noun are not alone. Consistently and trading are the keywords.
Ok well after reading some of the replies. I definitely won't neuter him because it sounds like that isn't the problem. He ripped my favourite blanket yesterday, ugh but other than that. He didn't talk back yesterday which was nice. But don't worry I know it isn't over yet! But side note. As I mentioned he only has his Kong toy left. So I mashed up half a banana and mixed it with plain Greek yogurt. Froze it. Then gave it to him as a treat. Then about 8 hours later he threw up in the middle of the night. Then again after breakfast this morning. Apparently his stool was fine. Did I give too much maybe? Or is plain Greek yogurt bad for dogs ? I'm worried now
Some dogs don't digest milk products very well. But others seem to be fine. My dog gets a bit of yoghurt (he gets my almost empty breakfast bowl, which has had yoghurt in it). It wasn't a bad idea to try him with yoghurt, so don't worry! If it did upset his tum he'll get over it pretty fast. And it might have been something totally unrelated and co-incidental that made him vomit.
He was fine the rest of the day thankfully! I always worry when my furbabies are sick. I'll do less yogurt next time and see how he handles it like you said, could have been something else all together
