After 3 weeks of Brandy moping around the house and it being just too quiet
since Barney passed away I decided to get another dog. My sister had 3 dogs
and was looking for a home for Lady (collie, lab & ?) so I decided to give
it a try and see how she would work out with Brandy. Now the two dogs get
along as well as you can expect a 10 year old and an 8 month old to. Lady
totally ignores the cats so for the most part they are happy campers and
even Spot is coming around to the fact that there is a new dog in the house
and has came out from hiding upstairs.

What has me so damned frustrated is that Mike is driving me nuts by not
listening to me on how to properly train her. She holds herself just fine
and hasn't had any accidents she even comes to get me to go out. The issue
is the teething and chewing. I told him when you go to work put her in the
kennel until she can be trusted to be left alone. We will work on letting
her loose a little at a time and when I'm sure she's ready we'll let her
loose like Brandy is. When we are home she's done great with just a few
minor things which I have taken from her and given her the proper toys to
play with. She now knows what puppy toys are and has a whole box full to
play with and she drags them out everywhere.

What I can't get the him to understand is that he can not go to work at 1:30
and let her loose in the house until 6.00 when I get home. She is still
learning but not completely reliable yet. I came home tonight to find her
loose and his solution to keeping her out of trouble was to shut the
computer room doors. Tonight she had destroyed the blind at the back door
it was all torn up from her jumping up at it and she had destroyed her
halter that was hanging on the knob. On Tuesday he took her with him to his
dads and thought he'd be able to let her loose in the yard and that she
would listen as well as Brandy does. Well guess who shot out of the yard
like a bolt of lightening. I also found a pair of my shoes in the middle of
the floor along with all her toys she had dragged out. She hadn't chewed
them but the fact remains she had them in her mouth and dragged them to the
living room.

I tried to tell him Brandy didn't get to be so well behaved over night.
Lord she has destroyed I know at least a dozen or more throw pillows in the
last 8 years. When I first got her I would leave her out to play with
Barney in the yard on a trolley for the first 6 months before I would even
let her loose for a few minutes at a time. Even then there were a few
occasions where she took off into the woods and wouldn't come out till she
was darned good and ready to.

I can feel a huge fight coming on tonight when he gets home. She is a
wonderful dog and has such potential if he just doesn't **** this up.

Celeste




--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cats teach us, keep your own counsel, cherish your independence, and give
love without surrendering one's self. Dogs teach us, sniff every corner of
the room before you decide to stay. Turn around 3 time and create a magic
circle before you settle down to dreaming & decide to trust someone totally
before you die.

"Spot" wrote in news:8nyOd.13535$ya6.10031@trndny01:

I can feel a huge fight coming on tonight when he gets home.

Maybe you could emphasize that destructive chewing isn't just expensive and
inconvenient for you guys, it's actually dangerous for the dog -- she could
chew a wire or ingest something that blocks her -- sometimes people are lax
because they think that's being nicer to the dog -- but it's not nice to
put the dog in dangerous situations, which is what your bf is doing.

--Catherine
& Zoe & Queenie

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:00:52 GMT, "Spot" wrote:

After 3 weeks of Brandy moping around the house and it being just too quiet
since Barney passed away I decided to get another dog. My sister had 3 dogs
and was looking for a home for Lady (collie, lab & ?) so I decided to give
it a try and see how she would work out with Brandy. Now the two dogs get
along as well as you can expect a 10 year old and an 8 month old to. Lady
totally ignores the cats so for the most part they are happy campers and
even Spot is coming around to the fact that there is a new dog in the house
and has came out from hiding upstairs.

What has me so damned frustrated is that Mike is driving me nuts by not
listening to me on how to properly train her. She holds herself just fine
and hasn't had any accidents she even comes to get me to go out. The issue
is the teething and chewing. I told him when you go to work put her in the
kennel until she can be trusted to be left alone. We will work on letting
her loose a little at a time and when I'm sure she's ready we'll let her
loose like Brandy is. When we are home she's done great with just a few
minor things which I have taken from her and given her the proper toys to
play with. She now knows what puppy toys are and has a whole box full to
play with and she drags them out everywhere.

What I can't get the him to understand is that he can not go to work at 1:30
and let her loose in the house until 6.00 when I get home. She is still
learning but not completely reliable yet. I came home tonight to find her
loose and his solution to keeping her out of trouble was to shut the
computer room doors. Tonight she had destroyed the blind at the back door
it was all torn up from her jumping up at it and she had destroyed her
halter that was hanging on the knob. On Tuesday he took her with him to his
dads and thought he'd be able to let her loose in the yard and that she
would listen as well as Brandy does. Well guess who shot out of the yard
like a bolt of lightening. I also found a pair of my shoes in the middle of
the floor along with all her toys she had dragged out. She hadn't chewed
them but the fact remains she had them in her mouth and dragged them to the
living room.

I tried to tell him Brandy didn't get to be so well behaved over night.
Lord she has destroyed I know at least a dozen or more throw pillows in the
last 8 years. When I first got her I would leave her out to play with
Barney in the yard on a trolley for the first 6 months before I would even
let her loose for a few minutes at a time. Even then there were a few
occasions where she took off into the woods and wouldn't come out till she
was darned good and ready to.

I can feel a huge fight coming on tonight when he gets home. She is a
wonderful dog and has such potential if he just doesn't **** this up.

Celeste

Have you thought of rehoming the boyfriend? If he can't respect your
wishes or Lady's needs now, what will it be like down the road?

I got him to understand that this is going to take some time that she's a
puppy that it doesn't just happen over night. He's even agreed to finish
fencing down the driveway...........WOW! I was in shock. I think the fact
that she moves so fast scared him when she took off. With my other two dogs
we only fenced in 3/4 of the yard and they were never out alone. If they
started down the drive so it wasn't an issue because they both would stop
when I told them to.

The next thing I have to wiggle out of him is a full gate for across the
drive. That one is going to take some time to accomplish...........

Celeste



"Kathi Stein" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:00:52 GMT, "Spot" wrote:

After 3 weeks of Brandy moping around the house and it being just too
quiet
since Barney passed away I decided to get another dog. My sister had 3
dogs
and was looking for a home for Lady (collie, lab & ?) so I decided to
give
it a try and see how she would work out with Brandy. Now the two dogs
get
along as well as you can expect a 10 year old and an 8 month old to.
Lady
totally ignores the cats so for the most part they are happy campers and
even Spot is coming around to the fact that there is a new dog in the
house
and has came out from hiding upstairs.

What has me so damned frustrated is that Mike is driving me nuts by not
listening to me on how to properly train her. She holds herself just
fine
and hasn't had any accidents she even comes to get me to go out. The
issue
is the teething and chewing. I told him when you go to work put her in
the
kennel until she can be trusted to be left alone. We will work on
letting
her loose a little at a time and when I'm sure she's ready we'll let her
loose like Brandy is. When we are home she's done great with just a few
minor things which I have taken from her and given her the proper toys to
play with. She now knows what puppy toys are and has a whole box full to
play with and she drags them out everywhere.

What I can't get the him to understand is that he can not go to work at
1:30
and let her loose in the house until 6.00 when I get home. She is still
learning but not completely reliable yet. I came home tonight to find
her
loose and his solution to keeping her out of trouble was to shut the
computer room doors. Tonight she had destroyed the blind at the back
door
it was all torn up from her jumping up at it and she had destroyed her
halter that was hanging on the knob. On Tuesday he took her with him to
his
dads and thought he'd be able to let her loose in the yard and that she
would listen as well as Brandy does. Well guess who shot out of the yard
like a bolt of lightening. I also found a pair of my shoes in the middle
of
the floor along with all her toys she had dragged out. She hadn't chewed
them but the fact remains she had them in her mouth and dragged them to
the
living room.

I tried to tell him Brandy didn't get to be so well behaved over night.
Lord she has destroyed I know at least a dozen or more throw pillows in
the
last 8 years. When I first got her I would leave her out to play with
Barney in the yard on a trolley for the first 6 months before I would
even
let her loose for a few minutes at a time. Even then there were a few
occasions where she took off into the woods and wouldn't come out till
she
was darned good and ready to.

I can feel a huge fight coming on tonight when he gets home. She is a
wonderful dog and has such potential if he just doesn't **** this up.

Celeste

Have you thought of rehoming the boyfriend? If he can't respect your
wishes or Lady's needs now, what will it be like down the road?