So the only thing more stressful than a puppy is an adolescent dog

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Wah!!

10 month old lurcher has in the last month or so
Lost his recall
Become reactive on the lead with other dogs
Barked randomly at a little girl that walked past today
Started eating the door frames when I'm out
Peed on the living room carpet twice this week despite not having had any accidents for 5 months
Lost interest in food despite previously being highly food motivated

We're attending workshops run by a local behaviourist to tackle the reactivity but walks are still quite stressful

I'm hoping a lot is just "teen" behaviour but feels like a lot to tackle in one go!

Oh bollocks!!

....wanders off to get the ham and practice recall yet again.......

Polarbear. It might explain it, but she might also have a UTI. Have you had her checked by the vet?

Took ours for a long walk on the beach this morning than dropped the dogs off at home accidentally leaving the hallway door open.

Only out for an hour but he had destroyed a bathroom sponge, a pack of tooth brushes, a wooden shoe rack and a pile of paperwork by the time I got back. The sponge was in tiny pieces spread throughout the whole house.

I am going to have to crate him again I think. He’s clearly easily bored but I thought he’d have been worn out after the walk.

I shouted at him and he went to the bottom of the garden and sat there looking at me while chewing on a low branch from an apple tree for a bit.

He has slept all afternoon on his back with his legs in the air.

Best my dog tends to misbehave after he has been exercised. It's like he's so wound up and can't calm himself down so maybe the beach walk over stimulated him?

Could be Bitey.

I think the temptation of upstairs was too much for him as well.

This all sounds woefully familiar. My 6 month old Lab has just started his "teens". Today he at a photograph, my computer mouse, binocular case. his grooming brush, and chugged down some dog shampoo. I only had a quick shower. He has just outgrown his crate and the bigger size won't fit in the space where his bed is. He can also stand like a meercat and reach pretty much anything. We are going to have to leave him home alone for a couple of hours on Tuesday; wish me luck!

Yes, good luck with that. Mine have meerkat abilities too but they are only little so at least we can put some stuff out of reach.

This isn't my first Labrador, but the last one wasn't as bad as this one, much more chilled. I am dreading the next few months in some ways but have bought a new harness today to control the lunging. He is just way too friendly. He can be obedient when the distractions are manageable but they aren't always. Neutering may help, of course, but we are now encouraged to leave it a bit longer, at least a year.

I think ours is going to be neutered very shortly. I have mixed feelings about it. Oldest one is not neutered but is very well behaved anD would hate to change his nature.
Unfortunately it’s difficult to get dog walkers/boarders to take un neutered dogs.

Agree with Bitey about dogs being more aroused after a walk. My behaviourist suggested changing our routine so we didn't leave monkey pup straight after his walk so he had time to wind down. She also said it's best to give them quiet walks with lots of low energy wandering and sniffing to keep them calm before being left.

Can't believe I didn't see this thread before.

Quite relieved reading it. Was beginning to think I'm an awful owner and have done everything wring as 10 month old lab is barking at everything.

Recall has also disappeared almost overnight. Well he does come back eventually but it takes a while. And if he meets anone he will run up to them barking 🙈

Plan is to keep him on lead with plenty sit and look at me practice. Maybe a clicker?

My 16 month old is still going strong in this phase, but with occasional lovely days to remind us why we're hanging on through the madness..... inreme,bear with my last dog realising that although at this stage you feel like you endlessly work on training and nothing sticks, by about the age of three you find it did go in after all.

Our 11 month old Beagle is similar!

Beautiful recall when small, I was so smug. Now she is off "beagling about" as we like to call it. She chased some ducks in a field the other day when we thought we would chance it with nobody else around... Well I've never seen ducks fly so fast.

Happily the mad racing all over the house has started to calm and there isn't as much trying to nick food. I'm hoping this is the start of the calming down period.

Our 2 year old Yorkie cross has been calm and easy for some time now so hopefully it will be a similar story... I'm just hanging on.. ;)

Our lab/springer cross is 6 months old and is turning into an expert thief.
He has always slept really well (3 nights of getting up at 3am to let him out and since then not a peep or a puddle) and was easy to house train. So far his recall is good but we do have an older dog so he follows his lead at the moment.
He hasn't really chewed but the thieving.... As he's grown taller he can reach the worksurfaces almost to the back and very little is safe. I suppose I should be thankful he doesn't chew anything apart from his toys which are destroyed.