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Hello everyone!
I’m new to the forum and I'm glad to have a place where I can come with questions/concerns regarding our recently adopted Beagle-mix Parker. We've had him since June 24th and he is almost 5 months now We love him to pieces, but he's starting to become quite the handful. He is our first puppy and well...we've got some puppy problems! We were making some major progress, but these days I feel like we have taken a GIANT step backwards with regards to training, housebreaking and obedience. He's becoming very destructive and stubborn. We say come (a command he has learned and mastered), and now he runs in the opposite direction. He's also taken to destroying his wee-wee pads, even after they've been used. We step away for two seconds, and he destroys it and shreds it to pieces. Both my husband and I work, so we stopped crating him during the day because he was having accidents in his crate. We’ve had him gated in our kitchen for a few weeks: he’d sleep most of the time and went on the wee-wee pad during the day (We have a puppy cam to monitor his behavior when we are away). All was great, but lately he's been destroying the pad and I feel like we're back to square one with him having accidents on the floor.
He gets two one-hour long walks daily (where he pees and poops) and lots of love and attention when we get home, but somehow it just doesn't seem enough these days. We can't step out of his line of sight for more than 2 seconds before he starts barking and howling up a storm and destroying everything in sight. We have Kongs filled with treats and plenty of chew toys, but he refuses to pay them attention to them unless we are in the same room as he is. Not sure what we're doing wrong, but we are hoping to get as much insight as possible. I've heard of the "puppy teens", but what happened to the sweet little guy we adopted? Should we start crating him again during the day?
Help please!
I’m new to the forum and I'm glad to have a place where I can come with questions/concerns regarding our recently adopted Beagle-mix Parker. We've had him since June 24th and he is almost 5 months now We love him to pieces, but he's starting to become quite the handful. He is our first puppy and well...we've got some puppy problems! We were making some major progress, but these days I feel like we have taken a GIANT step backwards with regards to training, housebreaking and obedience. He's becoming very destructive and stubborn. We say come (a command he has learned and mastered), and now he runs in the opposite direction. He's also taken to destroying his wee-wee pads, even after they've been used. We step away for two seconds, and he destroys it and shreds it to pieces. Both my husband and I work, so we stopped crating him during the day because he was having accidents in his crate. We’ve had him gated in our kitchen for a few weeks: he’d sleep most of the time and went on the wee-wee pad during the day (We have a puppy cam to monitor his behavior when we are away). All was great, but lately he's been destroying the pad and I feel like we're back to square one with him having accidents on the floor.
He gets two one-hour long walks daily (where he pees and poops) and lots of love and attention when we get home, but somehow it just doesn't seem enough these days. We can't step out of his line of sight for more than 2 seconds before he starts barking and howling up a storm and destroying everything in sight. We have Kongs filled with treats and plenty of chew toys, but he refuses to pay them attention to them unless we are in the same room as he is. Not sure what we're doing wrong, but we are hoping to get as much insight as possible. I've heard of the "puppy teens", but what happened to the sweet little guy we adopted? Should we start crating him again during the day?
Help please!