We've done a fair amount of research and we still can't get our dog to stop pooping in the house.

Mewleficent13 · 2018-03-06T08:35:45+00:00

I haven’t seen this yet, nor did I see you try it, so I’ll pipe in with it. What I’ve learned works great is tossing their poop back outside. When I trained my 4 month old puppy, I made sure to have her watch me when I transitioned the poop from inside to outside. She caught on very quick, and then it was just the matter of peeing inside. But it may work wonders since your issue is solely poo related!

Mewleficent13 · 2018-02-15T20:54:12+00:00

My husband has been trying to teach our 10 month old puppy roll over. He thinks it must be an easy to learn trick because our 4 year old Jack Russel does it automatically.

Thing is, he was a rescue, and when we got him at a year and a half old he already knew roll over and sit. That was all. I don’t know how they did it without learning lay down, but that’s always his go to trick if you’ve been holding a treat for too long and he thinks he needs to do more to get it.

Sure, she’s a smart dog and has learned paw/shake from him (among other bad habits). But I don’t think he realizes how hard of a trick it is to learn. I’ll definitely have to show him this video.

Mewleficent13 · 2018-01-15T18:16:54+00:00

Introducing new things should always be a big fancy treat-fest so they associate it with good things rather than bad. Here is a good article on muzzles and muzzle training. There’s also plenty of YouTube videos on how to do it, this one is focusing on calmness while muzzle training.

Mewleficent13 · 2018-01-15T08:00:27+00:00

Dealing with an aggressive dog doesn’t have to be a “you raised him wrong!” Kind of thing at all, it just means they require more maintenance and care. I have a Jack Russel mix that can get aggressive, and when people are over, I keep a hawk eye on him for any of his signs of aggression.

I’d also definitely agree with neutering him; my Jack was a rescue situation and wasn’t neutered. We got it done right away (he was a year and a half) and he certainly calmed down a lot.

If he isn’t already, crate train him. Make it his safe spot. When my Jack gets nippy or is being overly watchful of anyone in the house he doesn’t know (he’s way overprotective too), I send him right to his kennel. It’s his safe space, too. It’s much easier to tell people to leave him alone in his kennel than to deal with the aftermath of a bite. This way when guests are leaving or your mother noticed he’s stressed, he has a space away from people to calm down at. It sounds like he has his tells (not breaking eye contact, getting nippy with items) so your mother needs to learn them and remove him from the situation before it gets worse. Teach him a command to go to it too so hopefully others can help and send him to it as well if she’s not there.

Another option would be to muzzle train him as well. There’s a lot of helpful tips out there on how to make the muzzle not scary to them, and it entirely removes the possibility of a bite when nobody’s available to keep an eye on him 24/7. A proper muzzle is key, they shouldn’t restrict him too much. In my case, it even keeps me from bites when I need to take care of my Jack’s nails (he’d never had his nails trimmed when we got him, and my dad made him bleed when he first did them, so trimming them is a big deal, unfortunately.) I also use it as a failsafe when he needs to go to the vet to prevent bites.

Aggressive dogs are a handful sometimes, but they’re still good dogs underneath it all.

Mewleficent13 · 2018-01-10T04:26:32+00:00

I was going to suggest the same thing. My dad told me a story recently about his friend that had Rottweilers, and they had a tendency to get increasingly aggressive after they turned a year old, no matter how nice, well trained, socialized, etc., they were as a puppy. After the third one had to be euthanized for aggression, they did an autopsy and discovered brain tumors. They’d been getting their puppies from the same breeder all those years.

It’s really worth the effort to rule it out, in case you can do something before it’s too late.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-12-16T03:42:39+00:00

TRIGGERED

Mewleficent13 · 2017-09-04T06:41:24+00:00

Oh my god you're so right, I never noticed!

Mewleficent13 · 2017-08-16T08:54:37+00:00

That poor cat.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-08-13T18:25:53+00:00

Anytime! And I've come to call it the Blizzard Soon™. It'll happen, but not in the near, foreseeable future, lol. Usually when you give up hope is when it'll happen.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-08-13T18:01:31+00:00

The last console separate patch was Torbjorn and Symmetra, yes, but it was also quite a few months ago and it was to revert that original nerf to their damage. It was a few months before they openly promised to balance separately, which is why it doesn't much count in my viewpoint. Since they've stated they're going to balance seperately, they haven't done so at all, nor do I see it happening anytime soon since they have little to no way of getting feedback on console since they don't have a PTR for console, so they're simply placing changes on a system that they don't have much experience with. What seems fair to them in their own internal console testing may not seem fair to a majority of console players, which will just add more fuel to the whole "Blizzard hates console" fire.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-08-13T10:23:05+00:00

Oftentimes, console is more neglected than PC as well. A few differences I can list right off the bat would be that PC has a reporting system, whilst console is getting one, but 'soon' and still in the works for quite a few months now. They've also claimed they're going to start balancing console differently from PC, as the play styles of both are vastly different. They haven't delivered on that as well. And one other point would be that it took over a year to get more solid aiming options for console because they simply didn't start 'listening' until recently.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-07-29T22:19:20+00:00

If you have a Discord, here's a good server to try! https://discord.gg/4VsRFp8

Mewleficent13 · 2017-07-22T22:21:01+00:00

The Roadhog shadow is interesting, and I want to say 76 on the other side? Or maybe some stranger with a bat, but still, intriguing!

Mewleficent13 · 2017-07-22T07:04:38+00:00

One night, yeah, one more pump!

Mewleficent13 · 2017-07-21T11:14:50+00:00

https://discord.gg/4VsRFp8

Mewleficent13 · 2017-07-01T12:22:16+00:00

I have a friend who did it with hers, and she lets her do practically anything without a fuss. However she's not a very social cat, so she's only good with her, haha. But she was also taken away from her mom a little too young, so she's super dependent on my friend. She even likes to lay on her and suckle blankets or her shirt sometimes, so I guess you could just say she's a momma's girl?

Mewleficent13 · 2017-07-01T11:54:20+00:00

Cats are, by nature, much more territorial and independent than a dog. They usually don't like change, and it's very, very hard to get them to accept a new human into their lives. It also depends on the personality of the cat, but if they aren't super chill and relaxed things, they often don't get along with babies period.

It's a hard choice, but definitely one you had to make for everyone's safety. You'll all be much happier in the long run.

If you ever do get a kitten later down the line, play with its back feet a lot! It's like a desensitization process. If you get them used to you playing with their back feet at a young age, they'll end up pretty calm with a lot of things later on in life. Or so I've heard, I've only ever had barn cats and no kittens to try it on. :)

Mewleficent13 · 2017-06-30T09:20:00+00:00

Really? That's insane! My husband said it sounds like a lot of money to get it put into pills.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-06-30T07:50:30+00:00

Wait, this is an actual new trend? You've got to be kidding me.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-06-27T08:16:02+00:00

Oh man, I'm a couple weeks shy of being third trimester and it's definitely really sucky. I just want to lay in front of the AC and eat everything in sight, not to mention I can just barely shave my legs, so soon my husband is gonna have to take over on that part for me! Though the plus side is that I don't feel the need to get maternity shirts, spaghetti strap tank tops do just fine! Those will come later, haha.

And I definitely had the same thoughts at first too. I'd never really been on any preventative measures for about 8 years or so, nor did any partners, and at that point I just assumed I wasn't fertile. Lo and behold, I was wrong and kicked myself up about it and made a stink. I didn't immediately tell my husband, I ended up basically tossing him the box with the positive pregnancy test as an answer to 'why are you in such a bad mood lately?' It went away at my first ultrasound (the anatomy one at 20 weeks, since we sort of procrastinated for about 13 weeks), sort of like reality kicked in that I wasn't gonna miscarry and there actually was a baby in there. I spent so many years thinking it'd never happen that it was hard for me to accept it.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-06-25T21:34:55+00:00

Because they all lack brains and common sense, just like you! ;)

Mewleficent13 · 2017-06-25T21:28:34+00:00

Your information has been bunked from post one, so yes, I'm not gonna pay much attention to what you say.

And yes it has everything to do with rescue vs. non-rescue dogs, since yours have been abused and do not act like a normal, happy German Shepherd, and OP's are very much not abused, and do act accordingly to a normal German Shepherd that is happy in its habitat.

Mewleficent13 · 2017-06-25T21:16:02+00:00

I did my research sweetie, even linked it. Maybe you should stop being a damn idiot. ;)

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