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My chihuahua miniature pinscher mix is usually very well behaved, and well trained, but he becomes uncharacteristically defiant around acorns. He absolutely must eat them, and it's like an all consuming need. Training is not helping! Anything else, he'll drop, leave, or now ignore.
I've had him struggle against his harness to near strangulation to get at them. I'm not his primary owner or caregiver. My elderly parents own and keep him, and I work nights, so I sleep during the day.
They absolutely will not be bothered with actually walking him, they'll just continue to turn him out into the back yard, alone ANF unattended, to do business. And I live in south east Georgia, it's ALL oaks here! We have 10 in our yard alone, as do most every home around us.
He is terrified of the garage when it's closed for reasons we have never understood, because he walks through just fine when it's open. Just now, he actually followed me out there, just because there was a single acorn that had rolled in earlier.
He's tiny, and obviously gets into and under things where we can't always see or get to him. What the heck am I supposed to do?
I've had him struggle against his harness to near strangulation to get at them. I'm not his primary owner or caregiver. My elderly parents own and keep him, and I work nights, so I sleep during the day.
They absolutely will not be bothered with actually walking him, they'll just continue to turn him out into the back yard, alone ANF unattended, to do business. And I live in south east Georgia, it's ALL oaks here! We have 10 in our yard alone, as do most every home around us.
He is terrified of the garage when it's closed for reasons we have never understood, because he walks through just fine when it's open. Just now, he actually followed me out there, just because there was a single acorn that had rolled in earlier.
He's tiny, and obviously gets into and under things where we can't always see or get to him. What the heck am I supposed to do?