Hi, my names Jake and my family and I are getting desperate because we don't know what to do.
We have a 1 year old cocker/springer spaniel names Casey and a 10 month old newfoundland dog named Pixel. They are both female and (for the most part) get along great. But the main problem is with Casey...
-she will bark nonstop
-growls, barks and lunges at anyone but our family
-pulls very hard on walks
-attacks Pixel is she has a treat/bone
-jumps 3-4 feet onto our counters then steals/eats anything she can get
-chews on our couches
-cry's and scratches at the door when ever my mother leaves for work
- and she jumps up on us when she is excited
We should have done something about Casey's behavior when we first started noticing it when she was young. She wasn't abused at all by us or her breeder so we just don't know where is comes from. The reason we are worried though is that we are currently contemplating giving her away or putting her down..... We don't want to, she is a very very loving dog to us and she is a part of the family but her behavior is getting to be to much to handle. She is the pack leader of the house and our other dog Pixel is starting to pick up her bad behavior. We have tried everything we can to try and help our dogs but nothing seems to work, and were not sure if we are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on professional trainers. The neighbors are getting really fed up with their barking as well
Our dilemma is - Do we get rid of her so we don't have 2 bad dogs to deal with, or do we keep her and spend hundreds of dollars and lots of time in an attempt to fix her. It's hard saying goodbye to anything you love and we are worried that nobody would take her so she would get put down, and that if somebody took her, would they treat her nice? We don't have any friends or family that could or would take her in. We just do not know what to do.... =(
We have a 1 year old cocker/springer spaniel names Casey and a 10 month old newfoundland dog named Pixel. They are both female and (for the most part) get along great. But the main problem is with Casey...
-she will bark nonstop
-growls, barks and lunges at anyone but our family
-pulls very hard on walks
-attacks Pixel is she has a treat/bone
-jumps 3-4 feet onto our counters then steals/eats anything she can get
-chews on our couches
-cry's and scratches at the door when ever my mother leaves for work
- and she jumps up on us when she is excited
We should have done something about Casey's behavior when we first started noticing it when she was young. She wasn't abused at all by us or her breeder so we just don't know where is comes from. The reason we are worried though is that we are currently contemplating giving her away or putting her down..... We don't want to, she is a very very loving dog to us and she is a part of the family but her behavior is getting to be to much to handle. She is the pack leader of the house and our other dog Pixel is starting to pick up her bad behavior. We have tried everything we can to try and help our dogs but nothing seems to work, and were not sure if we are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on professional trainers. The neighbors are getting really fed up with their barking as well
Our dilemma is - Do we get rid of her so we don't have 2 bad dogs to deal with, or do we keep her and spend hundreds of dollars and lots of time in an attempt to fix her. It's hard saying goodbye to anything you love and we are worried that nobody would take her so she would get put down, and that if somebody took her, would they treat her nice? We don't have any friends or family that could or would take her in. We just do not know what to do.... =(