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We adopted Scout from a shelter in mid September and he was thought to be about a year old then. He had severe pneumonia, but has since recovered. We took him to obedience training for 5 weeks and does pretty well at sit, stay, leave it, wait, and fun things like rollover and be sneaky.
However, oftentimes he is just super rude. He will *not* leave my 10 year old son alone. He is continually trying to "bite" him (mouthing) him and jumps on him. He jumps on everyone. I really dislike that. Nothing seems to stop him. On the flip side, he doesn't really hassle the 5 year old too much.
He is also super destructive. He grabs anything he can find on the counter and destroys it. My husband leaves for work around 6:30 when it is still dark. He feeds him and throws the ball a few times before he leaves. The kids and I come down about 45 minutes later. Obviously, I cannot walk him until they get the bus at 8am, unless I did it in the dark before my husband left and I am not too thrilled with that idea. Anyway, when it is mild out my husband leaves the back door open so he can go out or in. Today he destroyed 4 plastic cookie keepers, 6 lightbulbs, a pen and the cord to the Christmas tree. I am not a perfect housekeeper, but the house and counters / tables are mostly clean, however if he sees anything, he grabs it and destroys it. He has *MANY* of his own chew toys, balls, stuffed pets, and squeaky things, and frankly, I am very tired of this. We don't want to be one of those families that leave the dog outside most of the time, but he can't behave, he is going to have to be out most of the time during the day. We have a large fenced back yard with plenty of sun and shade and his dog house is almost finished.
I really don't know what to do and I hugely frustrated. We haven't decorated the tree yet for obvious reasons. So far it just is (was) lights. I hope someone can give me some advice because right now he is definitely on Santa's naughty list with no hope of moving to the nice list.
However, oftentimes he is just super rude. He will *not* leave my 10 year old son alone. He is continually trying to "bite" him (mouthing) him and jumps on him. He jumps on everyone. I really dislike that. Nothing seems to stop him. On the flip side, he doesn't really hassle the 5 year old too much.
He is also super destructive. He grabs anything he can find on the counter and destroys it. My husband leaves for work around 6:30 when it is still dark. He feeds him and throws the ball a few times before he leaves. The kids and I come down about 45 minutes later. Obviously, I cannot walk him until they get the bus at 8am, unless I did it in the dark before my husband left and I am not too thrilled with that idea. Anyway, when it is mild out my husband leaves the back door open so he can go out or in. Today he destroyed 4 plastic cookie keepers, 6 lightbulbs, a pen and the cord to the Christmas tree. I am not a perfect housekeeper, but the house and counters / tables are mostly clean, however if he sees anything, he grabs it and destroys it. He has *MANY* of his own chew toys, balls, stuffed pets, and squeaky things, and frankly, I am very tired of this. We don't want to be one of those families that leave the dog outside most of the time, but he can't behave, he is going to have to be out most of the time during the day. We have a large fenced back yard with plenty of sun and shade and his dog house is almost finished.
I really don't know what to do and I hugely frustrated. We haven't decorated the tree yet for obvious reasons. So far it just is (was) lights. I hope someone can give me some advice because right now he is definitely on Santa's naughty list with no hope of moving to the nice list.