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[marcia hill]

as you all know iam gone until monday. alley now has jumped through the porch screen not to mention all the other destruction she has done. I hope she changes when i get home my family has had it with her.i love her so much i would hate to have to find her a new home. marcia

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Marcia,
I just read your post from yesterday 'chewing'. You asked for advice but it seems that for whatever the reason, none of it is being followed. You just keep asking for advice everyday for different issue but do nothing about it. I understand you are not home but where are the responsible humans in your home?
Why is she allowed to have the run of the house if she is being destructive? Your puppy is just that - a puppy. I am sure that you didn't let your toddler to go everywhere and put anything in their mouths. They HAD to be watched to make sure that they were safe. It is the same thing for a puppy - not only is she chewing inappropriate things, she could swallow what she chews and choke! Who would be there to save her??
Please, please, please, find someway to keep that puppy safe. If you can't be there and your family isn't interested in taking care of her, then maybe rehoming is something you should seriously think about.
I apologize if this sounds harsh but I feel that your puppy is not safe in your home if you are not there and you can't possibly been with her 100% of the time.

[Yvonne, Riley, Murphy and Luca]

I don't understand how there is an issue with her EVERYDAY? Your family is obviously not watching her at ALL. I have had my puppy 8 weeks already and not ONCE has he done anything destructive or chewed anything he was not supposed to. I can leave my shoes right by the front door and he knows that they are not his to chew.

If I can not watch him then there is someone else watching him. I don't leave the room, even if he is sleeping without having someone come and watch him. There should be a set of responsible eyes on your puppy at ALL times. If not they need to learn to put her in her crate where she is safe until they can watch her.

I agree with Adrianne, your puppy is a toddler, you MUST follow her and keep close eye on what she is doing. It is the ONLY way your puppy will learn right from wrong!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I have no idea about Alley's situation, but I can tell you that YES you can have an issue every day! My now wonderful English Springer was the most destructive puppy ever. He never did anything when we were home - well he did go right through the screens when we were on the other side, but he really had severe anxiety-separation issues. We tried crating him, among multiple other things - we got suggestions from trainers - he finally outgrew it, however he still hates to be alone. And yes he had another dog playmate in the house, many appropriate toys, lots of walks, etc. didn't matter.

[Adina P]

Hi Marcia,

A lot of us have given you advice, for us to continue we do need some response from you. Have you read the advice that all of us have given you? Did any of it seem helpful? Have you talked with your family about some of the things we said?

Everyone here is very helpful and kind and we WANT to help, but we may stop trying to help if we don't get some kind of response. Please tell us if you've had a chance to read the advice you were given. Please tell us what you've talked to your family about. Did our advice make sense? Have you tried any of it?

Adina

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Adrianne wrote:
" just read your post from yesterday 'chewing'. You asked for advice but it seems that for whatever the reason, none of it is being followed. You just keep asking for advice everyday for different issue but do nothing about it."

There is really nothing else to say. It is a waste of everyone's time to try to help you. I just feel really bad for poor Alley, who is in the hands of someone who knows absolutely nothing about dogs, let alone doodles, and refuses to learn. I am really beginning to wonder if these posts are being written by a child pretending to be an adult. It is hard to believe they are really from an adult woman.
Alley is going to ingest something that causes her to choke, obstructs her intestines, or poisons her. Or maybe she will be strangled by a cord, or go through another screen into the street and be hit by a car or lost. This poor puppy has no proper care, no safety, and no idea of what is expected of her. I would also be willing to bet that the family members who "have had it with her" are screaming and possibly hitting her.
I am not even going to bother reading these posts anymore, it just upsets me too much. Some people really shouldn't have a dog.

[Debbie and Thomas]

Everyone-I agree. How could a puppy jump thru a screen??? Maybe she chewed it first-which leads me to believe she was unattended in the first place. Our dog is 55 lbs at six months old and I really don't think he could jump through a screen unless it was falling aprt. My dood can be a handful-but he has never ruined anything in our house. He just like to bite us!! Yay

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Low windows, strong little body hurtling through space. Not actually too hard at all!

[Debbie and Thomas]

Come to think of it-my sisters lab jumped through a plate glass window up at her cottage when the dog saw them all walking down to the lake. She wasn't even injured!!

[marcia hill]

nobody in my house would ever hit alley. and she has a fenced in backyard and cannot get to the street. the screen was in the back yard in the florida room. alley knows what is expected of her i think this is all because iam gone. she sleeps with me i take her to the dog park and i also feed and brush her she is my dog.i will be home on monday so we will see if her behavior changes wich iam hoping it will.i dont work so iam home with alley all day she follows me every where.marcia

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Marcia, I assure you that Alley does NOT know what is expected of her, or you wouldn't be having all these problems every week, and you would not have an agitated, out-of-control dog who is destroying everything in your home & yard & endangering herself. How did she get the bottle of tranquilizers 2 weeks ago? Can she open a medicine cabinet?

[Adina P]

Marcia...another question. I'm starting to think that you've been gone this WHOLE time including when you wrote the note on chewing. Is this correct? Are you finding out all of this by phone from your family?
I feel SO bad for your poor pup. ALMOST ALL puppies do "bad' things if they are left to run around the house without being supervised. ALMOST ALL puppies do "bad" things if nobody trains them.

She won't just "change" when you get home. She's learning lots of bad habits so Both YOU and your family has to change...
Someone will ALWAYS have to supervise her (until she's older) when she is running free around the house or yard. When you can't supervise her you will have to put her in her crate. Does she HAVE a crate? Where does she hang out when nobody is home?

Again, we REALLY need for you to answer these questions and the other questions we have asked so we KNOW you are reading this. All you have to do is click "Add Reply" under each person's advice and give them some feedback so they know you heard them.

[fergie11]

I second all that!!!!!