Hello everyone,
Please excuse the long message and thanks to those who will read it. I’m here looking for advice and also opinion on our issue.
after years of reflexion and thanks to some change in our life we were finally able to adopt our first dog. After some research and Contact with breeders we opted for a Weimaraner. We were fully aware of the exercice level needed and the tendency of the breed to suffer from separation anxiety. Even though our lease allows us and in an attempt to be transparent we informed our landlord about our plan to adopt a dog. In our complex they were no dog at the time but they were two when we first moved in so we didn’t think this would be a problem. At first they said they wouldn’t allow it saying that yes there have been dog in the complex but would rather not to have dog anymore… we were really disappointed but we weren’t going to argue with our landlord. Then a few weeks later they came back to us and said that they came back on their decision and would allow the dog.
Obviously we were really excited. our dog joined our family 5 month ago at 10 weeks old. We should have thought twice because that’s when our problem started…
he is a puppy so obviously needs to learn things. Since the first week we’ve been working with him, going to puppy class every week to teach him things and have him trained. Knowing the SA tendency we tried to work on that since the beginning. Sadly our boy really doesn’t like to be alone… we had a behaviorist come to our house to help us with the matter. It seems to me that we’ve made some progress and that it’s not true SA but he simply rather be with us. what makes me say that is that when we leave he tends to barks but has no destroying tendency. We also worked on counter condition the departure keys and it seems to me that he doesn’t react to those anymore.
when we leave this is how it usually goes: we will walked him on and off leash to have him burn his energy. Then we come home and have him come down, that’s when he usually passes out on the sofa. Then when we leave, we leave him with plenty of occupation (frozen kong, bully stick, kong wobbler). He will bark a few time but as soon as we are in the car he’s busy with the chewy things we left him (we’ve installed a camera to watch him). After finishing the chewy things he will sometimes bark a few time (3-5 times 3-5 barks) but then realizes we are gone and passes out on the sofa until we come back. Then it doesn’t matter if we are gone 50 minutes or an hour. He lives his life.
knowing that, we try to leave him alone the least number of time possible (3-4 times a week). We will place him in daycare if needed or we will be with him the rests of the time. Sadly it impossible for us to always be with him. Ideally I know that our dog would never bark but we’re not there yet.
my problem is that our landlords now threatens us because our dog barks too much according to them and asks us to get rid of the dog or else. I find this really unfair because it seems to me that we are doing every thing in our power to erase this unwanted behavior and to erase the nuisance for everyone. We’ve ask around the neighborhood, all of our neighbour say they don’t mind him because he’s still young and that they barely hear him.
I am not saying my dog is no nuisance and I fully understand that it’s not their dog and that they don’t have to hear him but i really think the amount of barking is somewhat tolerable. For me I think this comes with saying yes to us having a dog and I find it really unfair to now asks us to give up the dog or move… am I wrong? What I also have trouble with is that they say things like “your dog barked all morning” when we left him like 45 minutes and he did bark like a few time according to the camera. Again, I’m not minimizing the nuisance but it seems to me that on their end they are exaggerating…
Have anyone also had this problem? Do you have any tips on what we can do to minimise the barking?
It seems to me that the more we leave him alone, the easier it gets but then we will have him barks more for a period of time not arranging the relationship with the landlords… I’m a bit lost on what to do… we will likely move but it’s not easy to find somewhere that accepts a weim…
Please excuse the long message and thanks to those who will read it. I’m here looking for advice and also opinion on our issue.
after years of reflexion and thanks to some change in our life we were finally able to adopt our first dog. After some research and Contact with breeders we opted for a Weimaraner. We were fully aware of the exercice level needed and the tendency of the breed to suffer from separation anxiety. Even though our lease allows us and in an attempt to be transparent we informed our landlord about our plan to adopt a dog. In our complex they were no dog at the time but they were two when we first moved in so we didn’t think this would be a problem. At first they said they wouldn’t allow it saying that yes there have been dog in the complex but would rather not to have dog anymore… we were really disappointed but we weren’t going to argue with our landlord. Then a few weeks later they came back to us and said that they came back on their decision and would allow the dog.
Obviously we were really excited. our dog joined our family 5 month ago at 10 weeks old. We should have thought twice because that’s when our problem started…
he is a puppy so obviously needs to learn things. Since the first week we’ve been working with him, going to puppy class every week to teach him things and have him trained. Knowing the SA tendency we tried to work on that since the beginning. Sadly our boy really doesn’t like to be alone… we had a behaviorist come to our house to help us with the matter. It seems to me that we’ve made some progress and that it’s not true SA but he simply rather be with us. what makes me say that is that when we leave he tends to barks but has no destroying tendency. We also worked on counter condition the departure keys and it seems to me that he doesn’t react to those anymore.
when we leave this is how it usually goes: we will walked him on and off leash to have him burn his energy. Then we come home and have him come down, that’s when he usually passes out on the sofa. Then when we leave, we leave him with plenty of occupation (frozen kong, bully stick, kong wobbler). He will bark a few time but as soon as we are in the car he’s busy with the chewy things we left him (we’ve installed a camera to watch him). After finishing the chewy things he will sometimes bark a few time (3-5 times 3-5 barks) but then realizes we are gone and passes out on the sofa until we come back. Then it doesn’t matter if we are gone 50 minutes or an hour. He lives his life.
knowing that, we try to leave him alone the least number of time possible (3-4 times a week). We will place him in daycare if needed or we will be with him the rests of the time. Sadly it impossible for us to always be with him. Ideally I know that our dog would never bark but we’re not there yet.
my problem is that our landlords now threatens us because our dog barks too much according to them and asks us to get rid of the dog or else. I find this really unfair because it seems to me that we are doing every thing in our power to erase this unwanted behavior and to erase the nuisance for everyone. We’ve ask around the neighborhood, all of our neighbour say they don’t mind him because he’s still young and that they barely hear him.
I am not saying my dog is no nuisance and I fully understand that it’s not their dog and that they don’t have to hear him but i really think the amount of barking is somewhat tolerable. For me I think this comes with saying yes to us having a dog and I find it really unfair to now asks us to give up the dog or move… am I wrong? What I also have trouble with is that they say things like “your dog barked all morning” when we left him like 45 minutes and he did bark like a few time according to the camera. Again, I’m not minimizing the nuisance but it seems to me that on their end they are exaggerating…
Have anyone also had this problem? Do you have any tips on what we can do to minimise the barking?
It seems to me that the more we leave him alone, the easier it gets but then we will have him barks more for a period of time not arranging the relationship with the landlords… I’m a bit lost on what to do… we will likely move but it’s not easy to find somewhere that accepts a weim…
