I would also let her take it at her own pace. Our guy was cautious of swimming for awhile, but now LOVES fetch in the water and will even jump in...
Tank, who is now about 2.5 years, has come to our bedroom door twice in the past week to whine in the middle of the night. In the past, he only...
We adopted Tank at 7 months, when I didn't know that pups go through an adolescent phase (so naive...). He was crate and house trained, which was...
Our local training folks have pens that can be borrowed for dogs who are too excited being in the same room with other dogs. That's an option I...
I have not used a chew like a bully stick for training, but if you plan to continue to do so I would be sure to incorporate a word or phrase that...
The Chuck it balls are the only tennis ball-sized toy that Tank has been unable to destroy. We also got about 6 months out of our goughnuts tug...
One more thing - We trained "rest", which essentially means "Lie on your side." We did so via starting him in a down and then luring his head...
I'm not sure what you have tried, but we ran into this and found we needed a combo of management and training techniques. I also want to validate...
@Michael A Brooks Your last line made me laugh - that has been a very difficult lesson for Tank (as it is for all of us). Thanks for the reply...
Oh, also, while we haven't tried it yet, I'm thinking about getting or making a small flirt pole, but you need a fair amount of room for that.
We like playing "find it" (we hide and have Tank look for piles of kibble around the house) and LOTS of tug.
Do you all think it's ever really possible to consistently teach a dog that some behaviors are only okay with a limited group of people? I have a...
Really late reply, but hopefully it will do some good. We dealt with this when our boy was an adolescent and it was awful and, for me, very...
I don't know if you're dealing with any arousal biting, but this was a big problem with Tank until he was 10 months old or so (we got him at 7...
Just a quick update - I was waiting until the weekend to do something (in case it made things worse and I didn't sleep at all), but he hasn't...
Well... That's a good question! Ha! He's gone through 3 (4?) beds in the past year, but we haven't tried one in the past few months and he's...
We have though, honestly, anything that would fit him would still be difficult to find space for. I've always imagined he would eventually not...
I think those are awesome solutions listed above, but just came to see that it gets better! Tank destroyed everything until he got to be about 1.5...
You are probably right that it was too abrupt. I will try moving his crate upstairs and go from there. It's challenging because his crate is HUGE...
Thanks to both of you for replying. Those are good suggestions, but unfortunately his bed doesn't fit in our room and, to be honest I'm almost...