My wife and I have a crazy ass 3 year old weimaraner. She was a stubborn dog to train but we broke her and she's a great dog now. She was easy to house break and crate train. She lays in her crate voluntarily for no reason at all at times. She doesn't pee in the house, didn't pee in her crate, and never climbed up on the counter to steal food or other things.
Fast forward to the week before Easter. A classmate from highschool calls my wife that lives in the greater Philadelphia area and tells her there's a 6 month old wemaraner at the rescue she picked her dog up from. My wife of course starts ooohing and aaaaahing about this little big eared innocent eyed puppy. I said no for a good 5-10 minutes because I didn't want to deal with any more dog shit. I eventually got annoyed and said "I won't argue with you anymore but this dog is your problem".
So my wife gets the dog two weeks ago. "Lucky" for us someone pulled strings since we already owned a weim and they picked us (my wife not me) to adopt this hell hound. I know it's a new house but Margot (the new ass pain) peed in the house more times in two weeks than our 3 year old did since we got her. They told us she was crate trained. I can confidently say that was a big fat fucking lie. She barks and barks and barks. I know it's only been two weeks but there's no sign of improvement at all. The minute we put her in there she just goes and goes and goes. Only time we get any sort of a break is at night. Where she might not bark for 3-5 hours at a time. This shit is driving me nuts, I didn't want the little pain in the ass in the first place.
Any suggestions or experience with a dog like this? Currently we are trying some sort of hormone releasing wall plug in for dogs. A friend had one from a problematic dog she rescued and gave it to us since it is a perishable product. We've tried covering the crate like she's a bird, and she just pulls the sheet into the crate with her. Our next step is to begin feeding her in the crate so she associates the crate as a good place that she eats. So hopefully she'll stop pissing in there and she'll stop barking each time she gets put in the crate. I've seriously considered getting her drunk, but she'd probably be a sloppy drunk and puke all over herself or something.
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Fast forward to the week before Easter. A classmate from highschool calls my wife that lives in the greater Philadelphia area and tells her there's a 6 month old wemaraner at the rescue she picked her dog up from. My wife of course starts ooohing and aaaaahing about this little big eared innocent eyed puppy. I said no for a good 5-10 minutes because I didn't want to deal with any more dog shit. I eventually got annoyed and said "I won't argue with you anymore but this dog is your problem".
So my wife gets the dog two weeks ago. "Lucky" for us someone pulled strings since we already owned a weim and they picked us (my wife not me) to adopt this hell hound. I know it's a new house but Margot (the new ass pain) peed in the house more times in two weeks than our 3 year old did since we got her. They told us she was crate trained. I can confidently say that was a big fat fucking lie. She barks and barks and barks. I know it's only been two weeks but there's no sign of improvement at all. The minute we put her in there she just goes and goes and goes. Only time we get any sort of a break is at night. Where she might not bark for 3-5 hours at a time. This shit is driving me nuts, I didn't want the little pain in the ass in the first place.
Any suggestions or experience with a dog like this? Currently we are trying some sort of hormone releasing wall plug in for dogs. A friend had one from a problematic dog she rescued and gave it to us since it is a perishable product. We've tried covering the crate like she's a bird, and she just pulls the sheet into the crate with her. Our next step is to begin feeding her in the crate so she associates the crate as a good place that she eats. So hopefully she'll stop pissing in there and she'll stop barking each time she gets put in the crate. I've seriously considered getting her drunk, but she'd probably be a sloppy drunk and puke all over herself or something.
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