My trainer suggests using a good spray bottle. She has us get them in a 3 pack at Smart & Final, fill them with plain old water and place them in strategic places thru the house. Like outside the front door if you have problems with the dog jumping on you as you come in the door. Put it on the jet stream - not mist. One good squirt and it sort of stuns them into paying attention to what you are saying "off" or "no bite". Also, rewarding them when they are NOT doing it by praising them and treating them for being good.
From: sabbythe <Sabstories@aol.com>
To: Dachsie_World@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:53 AM
Subject: <Dachsie World> Clothes grabbing
To: Dachsie_World@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:53 AM
Subject: <Dachsie World> Clothes grabbing
Hi,
I have a doozy of a 10 month old dachshund and I need HELP! LOL
My sister and I live together and we got our Clancy when he was 3 1/2 months old so we had a slower time of housebreaking, etc. than we had with our previous dachshunds who were much younger when we got them. Most of the focus was on tinkling outside and the only way we were able to finally break him from wetting the floors was to give up and get rid of any kind of confinement (we had a play yard reduced down to a small square standing in as a crate in our living room). As soon as he had run of the place, he cooperated fully and hasn't wet the floor since so that issue is settled to all our satisfaction.
However, we are having a terrible time with Clancy grabbing at our clothes and trying to drag us to do what he wants. He jumps up as high as he can, latches on and hangs onto us and shreds our shirts or pants. He mostly does this at night right before his usual sleepy time but he does it at other random times, too. He is never alone and I play with him all the time but playtime usually turns into him biting and wanting to play rough which we have never encouraged. We don't know what the situation was before we got him but he is definitely an alpha type.
We go to our bedrooms and close our doors refusing to engage with him, lecturing him on the way about "no bites" etc and if we stay in there long enough, he settles down and is a little angel when we come back out. But we do realize the little monster is still controlling us, not the other way around.
A similar issue is that when he is visiting my folks nextdoor everyday and he wants something done, he barks at my dad and bangs his nose against my dad's ankles. We are afraid he will nip him in the process because he is not shy about using his teeth on us.
How do we break this pattern? We have had dachsies since before we started kindergarten and I am now 50 years old but this little brat has me stumped! He is horribly spoiled, of course, but so were our others and they never tried anything like this. It seems like we have to scold him constantly and he thinks we are playing and I swear he laughs at us (it's adorable but we don't let him know it). What do we do? He's not a little bitty puppy and it's war keeping him off us.
I should mention he has been neutered and he's really good about sit and stay and other tricks when he's not in puppy frenzy mode. He'll be the smartest dog ever once we get this issue resolved.
I apologize for jumping in and unloading my problems in one fell-swoop but Clancy just wiped out my favorite Rolling Stones t-shirt and I had a dream last night about selling him to the gypsies. I have been a member of the group for a long time but when our last dachsie passed away we couldn't bear to even look at one for a few years but now here I am again. Sorry for the length of my post, it's nice that the group is still here! HELP!!
Sabby
I have a doozy of a 10 month old dachshund and I need HELP! LOL
My sister and I live together and we got our Clancy when he was 3 1/2 months old so we had a slower time of housebreaking, etc. than we had with our previous dachshunds who were much younger when we got them. Most of the focus was on tinkling outside and the only way we were able to finally break him from wetting the floors was to give up and get rid of any kind of confinement (we had a play yard reduced down to a small square standing in as a crate in our living room). As soon as he had run of the place, he cooperated fully and hasn't wet the floor since so that issue is settled to all our satisfaction.
However, we are having a terrible time with Clancy grabbing at our clothes and trying to drag us to do what he wants. He jumps up as high as he can, latches on and hangs onto us and shreds our shirts or pants. He mostly does this at night right before his usual sleepy time but he does it at other random times, too. He is never alone and I play with him all the time but playtime usually turns into him biting and wanting to play rough which we have never encouraged. We don't know what the situation was before we got him but he is definitely an alpha type.
We go to our bedrooms and close our doors refusing to engage with him, lecturing him on the way about "no bites" etc and if we stay in there long enough, he settles down and is a little angel when we come back out. But we do realize the little monster is still controlling us, not the other way around.
A similar issue is that when he is visiting my folks nextdoor everyday and he wants something done, he barks at my dad and bangs his nose against my dad's ankles. We are afraid he will nip him in the process because he is not shy about using his teeth on us.
How do we break this pattern? We have had dachsies since before we started kindergarten and I am now 50 years old but this little brat has me stumped! He is horribly spoiled, of course, but so were our others and they never tried anything like this. It seems like we have to scold him constantly and he thinks we are playing and I swear he laughs at us (it's adorable but we don't let him know it). What do we do? He's not a little bitty puppy and it's war keeping him off us.
I should mention he has been neutered and he's really good about sit and stay and other tricks when he's not in puppy frenzy mode. He'll be the smartest dog ever once we get this issue resolved.
I apologize for jumping in and unloading my problems in one fell-swoop but Clancy just wiped out my favorite Rolling Stones t-shirt and I had a dream last night about selling him to the gypsies. I have been a member of the group for a long time but when our last dachsie passed away we couldn't bear to even look at one for a few years but now here I am again. Sorry for the length of my post, it's nice that the group is still here! HELP!!
Sabby
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