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Jealous 2-year-old **Please Help!!!!
I have a jealous boston terrier...Over the past week he has been going #1
and #2 in the house...Once even on the baby's bed!!! I love my dog, but I cannot have this. It's disgusting. What can I do to stop it??? Background: Kipper has been a very needy dog since the day I brought him home. When he was a puppy trying to get used to being crated for 4 hour periods while I was at work he had very bad separation anxiety which is not uncommon for the breed. He would go #2 in the crate and cry and moan so loud it sounded like a newborn baby crying. I would hear him on my way out the door and on my way back in after work. The neighbor said he didn't stop much while I was gone. It was aweful. We lived in that apartment on week days and at my boyfriends house on the weekends. At the bf's place there was a female chihuahua he didn't like at all. Kipper would pee on the floor and go #2 every now and then. He was given the same attention. The 2 dogs didn't get along at all. The female chi had a litter of chi pups. Kipper liked the pups. The chi mom wouldn't let Kipper see the babies until they were able to walk. She would ggrowl and try to bite him if he got too close. My BF gave me the runt of the litter. Kipper and the runt got along very well. I named him Buzzie. Buzzie was so tiny. But, because Buzzie was not trained because he was a baby, Kipper further regressed and started having accidents at my place too. I tried to train them both. Then my BF and I broke up and I was back in the dating scene and taking one night class a week. I moved in with my grandma for the holidays last year while I tried to figure out what to do next. The dogs were crated at my parents house while I was at work each day. Then I moved into another apartment. Soon after that I met a new guy. So that meant more time alone for the pups. They spent too much time alone. It was terrible. So, they were both very mad at me and continued to have accidents. My new BF and I hung out a lot together. Went out at night together, etc. Dogs hated it. Finally my BF and I moved in together. My grandmas chi died at the same time. Trying to train Buzzie and re-train Kipper was too much. I gave buzzie to grandma who is retired and loved him to death. He is her baby and he needed the constant attention I cannot give him. So, I think kipper liked being an only dog again. BF and I moved into a house with a fenced back yard. Kipper was on cloud 9. The accidents stopped immediately. He was calming down. Doing great. He was a normal 2-year-old dog. Some fiestiness in him, but a good trained dog. Then my BF and I got full custody of his 18-month-old baby. So obviously dinner time, bath-time, diaper changing time, play time, story time, all takes away from Kipper time. Now, I believe this is making kipper jealous. It didn't show up right away. We have had full custody for 3 months now. Kipper just started acting out by going #1 and #2 on the floor since we got back from our 4 day camping trip over Thanksgiving. On that trip my mom (not a dog owner) watched him at her place for me. He was a great dog for them too. My mom was very impressed at how good he had become. Then we get back from the trip. Since then he has peed a number of times in the dinning room, pooped in the dinning room once, and peed on the baby's bed!!!! I don't understand. What do I do? This cannot continue. It is not sanitary. I try so hard to spend extra time with him. He cries to get in my lap every night when I am sitting in the chair or on the computer afte r the baby goes to bed. He is 30# but I still let him get up because he is so cute. I give him kisses on his head. I say " I love you Kipper MOnster." He curls up on me for a nap. He sleeps in the bed between my legs at night with my BF and me. I sneak him treats like a slice of ham or piece of block cheese when no one is looking. I throw his toy to him a few times when he asks me to by holding it in front of his face. He is crated while we are at work. 9 hours per day. But it is a huge 4 foot by 4 foot crate. We also go out for an hour or so a couple of night a week to get groceries or stop by my BF's parents or friends. We don't stay out long because the baby has to have a bath and go to bed by 8:30 because he has to be up at 7:15 every morning. I know Kipper had a really rough first year and a half with all the moving and changes, but he was doing sooooooo good this past 6 months....I don't understand why he has so drastically regressed again since Thanksgiving weekend. Our current habits have been unchanged since we moved into the house 3 months ago...So why NOW has Kipper started acting out? More importantly HOW DO I FIX IT FAST BEFORE MY BF DROPS HIM OFF AT THE POUND????? Kipper is my BABY! Please Help! |
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