Adolescent Dog Survival thread anyone?

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Apologies if the puppy thread is doing this job too but I feel bad posting on there with my 10 month ddog issues, like "yep it's still shit in 8 months time"! Just wondering if anyone would like to congregate here with their tales of woe and hopefully hints and tips of surviving the teenage dog years?

I have a 10 month old staffy cross rescue bitch. She is HIGH ENERGY. We got her at around 6 months, completely untrained. Our first dog. We must have been insane.

Lead walking is hit and miss.
We have jumping up and biting issues.
Recall is pretty good, maybe 85-90% (my hint on this is to take her out when she's hungry and she gets loads of the best treats to come back to).
Cats=terrible. Wants to chase my 2 resident cats constantly and they are separated all the time. This makes me really sad.

Anyone want to join in?

I have to say, I think Ddog is lulling us into a false sense of security at the moment....suspiciously well behaved on walks.. we had this a few weeks ago and then she seemed to go feral again

I am really trying to make her walks more interesting though- I take a tug toy with me and while out, hide treats in the leaves for her to find etc. I think the mental fatigue is making her better in the house too. She's settling better in the evening. She also gets all her food from either standard kongs, her kong wobbler or a slow feeder dish. She just needs challenged constantly.

I’m working all over Christmas so that’s my excuse.😀. Blobbypup has a very calm five year old border collie for a big brother and I think that has helped with his behaviour.
So far no chewing or biteyness and very calm evenings. I swear it’s been as a result of being treated as a naughty sheep and firmly managed by big brother. Obviously as incompetent humans we can’t be left to teach puppies.😆

I'm so glad I found this thread after our interesting walk today.
Dog is 10months and has no sense at all.
He walks well off lead and (mostly) recalls when called, but is a shit on the lead.
Had him on the long line today and got snotty comment from someone when we didn't bring him back in quick enough and he approached her dog.
It's just a constant battle of training, thinking you've got it, then it all goes to shit because it's windy and he likes chasing leaves
And that he's nearly 30kg

I've found that as soon as I sort one problem, another one appears

Ours pulls like a train on lead with a harness but he's much better with just a collar. So we're just using his harness for the car at the moment and he seems to be walking much better - he seems much calmer too for some reason.

He refused to walk at daycare on Friday because it was raining - so we ended up with a manically hyper puppy who refused to go outside but who was clearly in desperate need of a walk! He was hyper as anything and kept trying to have sex with the cat 😂

Thankfully dog loves a walk in the rain, we have just got back. Unfortunately he is still hyper after an hour's walk off lead with a swim as well
I'm the only one that walks him on his collar, everyone else uses the harness as he pulls like a train regardless.
Little darling is currently murdering a cuddly toy... I do hope he settles down eventually

Just been out orienteering this morning with DH and puppy. FINALLY something that tires him out, he had a great time running through the forest and chasing us as we were trying to map read and find the markers. He's now sound asleep on the sofa!

Can I join please. I have a 11m cockapoo, we had to get a behaviourist in because he’s been growling and nipping people and dogs to assert himself. We are following the behaviourist’s advice but it seems like a long slog before we get our lovely calm dog back 😬

Ours has actually been a lot better with other dogs over the past few days - we met another beagle on tonight's walk and he didn't bark - just wanted to play which is a first!

The other owner said they don't get any better though - hers is six 🙊🙈

Ok as predicted we had a step back in behaviour yesterday and today . Ran off to cavort with a group of dogs yesterday and refused to come back and similar today in that she galloped up to individual dogs ignoring my diversion techniques. It's funny how I can recognise a sort of "look" which comes over her, a certain devilish glint in her eye. Sigh. Back to the drawing board. Just as I was starting to really enjoy walks and trust her again. Hope everyone else had a better day with their teenage dirtbag dawgs.

Adaline I HATE it when people say things like "ohhhhh they don't get much better with age".

Your not the only one who had a step back today. Our relatively good recall completely went out the window when we went walking with a friend and their dogs.
Little bugger is not in my good books

He was hyper as anything and kept trying to have sex with the cat - how did the cat feel about that?

I've found my people! 10month old whippet here who is generally lovely, recall reasonable (not with other dogs around of course), good on lead, not too jumpy/bitey BUT will not stop trying to hump my youngest DD. She just thinks he's being affectionate but he won't leave her alone. I need to do some research into techniques to distract him and maybe have a chat with the vet, but don't really want to neuter yet.

So sweeping up the kitchen area after breakfast, puppy decides he wants to play tug with the brush. After he's told no, I close the door in the utility room to allow me to sweep that bit in peace. Puppy not happy, throws temper tantrum in kitchen. I come back in to the kitchen to find tea towel on the floor and he's grabbed the kitchen roll and unwound it and shredded it! He's now outside in the garden watching me through the patio doors cleaning up the kitchen. Joys of adolescent puppies
A good 45 mins of leadwork and recall training is next for him!

Me too please! My 16 month cockapoo has gone from lovely and playful to just loathing specific dogs who he will growl at and nip (usually younger dogs). Also his recall has totally gone since he started noticing squirrels who he is now obsessed with chasing. He now pulls on the lead relentlessly until he is let off and tanks off into the distance. That sqeezy cheese idea sounds genius though- might stop me going into work smelling revolting.

So I took him out this morning with the hopes of tiring him out - he had a woodland walk, sat while we had breakfast out, had a walk around town and to the park and he's still hyper!

He hasn't slept since he woke up so I'm hoping he'll crash soon!

I've been away so Oscardog has had 24 hours of playing at dog care. Is knackered for a change!

ADHD, mine s scared of brushes and rakes and your kitchen roll reminded me: had awful night after picking up some horrid virus from grandchild. Just about managed to get dog up and fed the next morning before crawling back to bed, and I gave her the run of the house rather than leaving her in the kitchen on her own. I thought she mostly slept with me as she was so quiet. However, got up a couple of hours later and she'd discovered the store of loo roll and the delights of shredding it. The house looked like there had been a snow storm indoors!!

I've bought Total Recall as advised on another thread. Looks like I'm the one who needs training rather than the dog.........

Theoscargoesto I also have that problem too, puppy loves toilet roll and tissues, he grabs them and runs out to the garden with it or shreds them. Now we either hide the loo roll way out of his reach or try and keep the doors closed. Boxes of tissues are also hidden out of sight!

Black one is the 11 month old springer/lab cross and collie is 5 years old. They had an hour and a half walk early this morning and then spent the rest of the day snoozing and destroying a few toys. Time for another nap now, think I’m coming back as a dog.😆

Re: the shredding of illicit items. The training class we went to advocated "environmental management"! Basically moving things out of reach or using stair gates to keep them out of rooms you don't want them going into. This is good in theory unless you've got a dog who can swoop in virtually like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible to steal things to chew from under your nose and also leap over the highest stair gates like a brindle racehorse

We have also gone back to manic evenings, with everyone having to take turns to play tug of war with her until she crashes out at 9pm on the dot. Naughtiness has ramped up again

We have also gone back to manic evenings

I'm so glad that's not just us! He's been bonkers the last few nights - terrorising the cats, wanting to play tug and chew absolutely everything! We find his thunder shirt works wonders but only if he's exhausted enough, otherwise he just won't settle down.

Ah I've thought about a Thundershirt Adaline... would you recommend? I suspect she's also going to be scared of fireworks as we heard a few in the distance a few weeks ago and she was totally spooked. Unfortunately we live near a park where there is an enormous fireworks display every year.

Yeah, I'd definitely recommend it - we use Archie's in the evenings and we have used it on walks in the past (he liked to bark at other dogs) although we no longer really need it for that as he's a lot more confident now and happier to just sniff and move on.

Ah I think it will have to go on the credit card!

Oh another thing I've found great if any if you have "extreme chewers" is to make tug toys out of old thick jeans (especially if they're the realky thick denim). I cut off the legs then cut into three strips and plait them really tightly. It really is the only toy she hasn't shredded in about 30 mins (apart from Kongs). She also loves shaking them. That really are her favourite toy.

Had another panic with the speed Legodog can shift this morning. Was walking her in the woods and I stopped to check my phone and when I looked up no dog. Couldn’t hear her couldn’t see her. She did, eventually, come back when I called. But oh my days, scary few moments.