I have tried playing fetch with him or tossing his toys around, thinking he might want to play, but he ignores them in favor of our hands or feet.
I agree about the crate. I don't want him to associate it with being bad. My husband, who works from home and is with him all day, just gets so frazzled and sticks him in there because he knows it calms him down. I have only done it once when he bit me so hard that blood was running down my leg and needed to tend to my leg and get him to rest.
He has had some training (6 classes so far). The trainer said he was very smart, and he learned everything in two classes. Problem is that he likes to bark at other dogs because he wants to go over and play with them. So, that resulted in him not passing the training class and moving on to higher classes. We are working with him at home still. |