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He has been house trained for months.
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Not the case never was, there is a big difference between a dog that is house trained and one that does not have accidents in the house. The latter only requires management of the dogs behavior and schedule to precvent accident, the formal requires the dog to learn "to hold it " when no appropiate place to go is available. to recognise what is and is not an appropriate place to go, and to reliable signal a human when it needs to go. The problem is dogs are very poor generalizers that is Just because they learn it is inappropriate to go in your apartment does not translate that it is inappropriate to go in your mother house, or a new apparment. Quite the contrary one when moving locations should assume the dog is not house trained at that location until it has satisfactorly proven that it is and treated as such. That means confining or other management techniques you used when first house training the dog.
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2 weeks and 6 days out of these 2 weeks he has chewed things.
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This is normal behavior for a dog this age.
Dealing with Normal Puppy Behavior: Chewing
Developmental Stages Of Puppy Behavior
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At seven to nine months they go through a second chewing phase -- part of exploring territory.
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He really liked the house because they had a big back yard so he would always go out and play in it. We just recently got a new apartment and everything has gone down hill with this dog
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Most of the problem you are encountering are self explainatory in this comment. The dog now confined to the apartment is not getting enough exercise. This creates a fustration level in the dog that manifests itself in distructive chewing, out of bordom, and increase in neediness and attention seeking. Until this need is met you are going to face an up hill battle. Basset's and bassets mixes especially puppies are way more active and require more exercise than people are often led to believe especial by portrayal of bassets by hollywood.
One excellent means of provide dog an outlet for both chewing and his need for exercise in a confined space like an apartment is "tug"
[url=http://www.urbandawgs.com/articles/tug.pdf]
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Dog owners have been admonished for decades to never play tug of war with their dogs because of the risk of it increasing aggression and/or dominance in the dog. Even many dog resource people such as breeders, trainers and veterinarians caution against this game. This is partly a failure to discriminate between agonistic behavior (conflict resolution & defensive aggression) and predatory behavior. Also, many people have issues about witnessing intensity. Intensity is not aggression, however.
Played with rules, tug-of-war is a tremendous predatory energy burner and good exercise for both dog and owner. It serves as a barometer of the kind of control you have over the dog, most importantly over his jaws. The game doesn't make the dog a predator: he already is one. The game is an outlet. It’s intense, increases dog focus and confidence and plugs into something very deep inside them. The big payoff is in lowered incidence of behavior problems due to understimulation and a potent motivator for snappy obedience. There is a maxim in training: control the games, control the dog. It's also extremely efficient in terms of space and time requirements.
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if we do not give him are every second of attention it is constant whining and pawing and jumping at us to get us to give him love
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What have you been doing to stop this behavior? ignoring it? This is the most useless advice any one can give when dealing with attention seeking behavior. While it is a well established fact that over time not rewarding a behavior will extinguish a behavior there are c couple of things that always prevent this from happening in attention seeking behaviors.
1. The need of the dog is not addressed, and because this need is not met the dog will continual seek out haveing this need met. If the obnoxious behavior he is currently using fails to work, his need does not deminish it only increased. This leeds to finding even more obnoxious behaviors that are so obnoxious they can not be ignored.
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Extintiction burst is a given when ignoring a behavior that has been previously been rewarded. That means the behavior gets worse much worse before it ever gets better.
What does work is what works with crying babies. When a baby cries do you ignore it or instead meet the babies need, i.e. food, dry diaper etc. What happens over time when this occurs in a timely fashion or proactively ( before being requested) the dog or baby is more able to handle a lapse in having this need provided and the attention seeking behavior deminishes.
see:
harmmony Programme
With the moving every couple months and the dog reaching adolesents you have a perfect storm of stress, rebellion and the dog just trying to find out how it fits into the world. There is no mystery why most dogs are relinquished at this age.
Surviving Your Puppy's Adolescence
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Young dogs need a constructive outlet for their seemingly boundless energy. Regular aerobic exercise such as speed walking your dog, running with them on a soft surface (like sand, grass or dirt) and playing fetch are all good options, as are allowing your pooch to run and play with other dogs. Remember: a tired dog just wants to find a spot for a good snooze instead of eating the remote control to the big screen television.
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Puppy Adolscence - or Demon Spawn
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Adolescence is the transition between the safe practice of childhood and the independent, butt-on-the-line reality of adulthood. Adolescence is the time when "Because I said so" simply isn't good enough anymore -- Nature *demands* that they test boundaries and consequences and decide for themselves what decisions they want to make. It's not dominance or rebellion. It's growing up.
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Puppy adolescence: trials and tribulations
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This can be a trying time for your relationship. In fact, most dogs taken to animal shelters because of “behavior problems” are between nine and 18 months old — prime canine adolescence. Most of these problems could be solved if the owner understood what was really going on and how to handle it.
This is also a very critical time for your relationship. Dogs do grow out of adolescence but what they learn during that time will stay with them the rest of their lives. Your puppy is testing you. If she learns that you won't enforce your commands and that she only has to obey when she wants to, you'll be setting a pattern that will be very hard to break.
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