At the end of my rope

[yorkieusa]

Originally Posted by Herks Mom

I have one of the most hyper, back talking puppies around. Herk will be 9 months old Aug 1, and it seems his behavior gets worse instead of better. I bought him a new harness yesterday, put it on him and 30 minutes later he had chewed it into. No little task. Its like he is arguing with you all the time (back talks). Constantly barking at everything. When you tell him to stop he turns around and acts like an unruly child. You can not catch him to put him in time out. I raised 4 kids and have 7 grand kids and he is putting me under.LOL Potty training has gone to pot. He stays in our bedroom at night in his bed. There are 2 pads in there. This morning he had tt'd 3 times on my floor during the night. Got to where he will go wherever he wants to. Beats me. I'm so disgusted. Toes and feet he will not leave alone. If you tell him to stop he will bark at you and stand there and argue with you. I really don't know how to get this little monster under control. Whre did I go wrong? This little monkey is a little dictator. I love him with out a doubt just had to blow off some steam.

Of course, you love him! If you didn't, he'd probably be living in the garage right now! Gee! I had to laugh about the harness. That reminded me of something that happened to my mom about 13-14 years ago with Muffin. She decided to take Muffin on a walk on her leash to her friend's home, which is two houses away and they were sitting there in their lawn chairs just chatting away and mom looked down and noticed Muffin had chewed through her leash, but she was still just sitting there! It was chewed completely in two!

I think you can officially say that Herk has entered his teenage years! They all go through them. It's just like people. Some are worse than others.

As far as the barking goes, I don't know. If you can't catch him...

As far as the potty training, Herk makes my nearly 4 month old sound like a dream! I'm not going to brag yet, though. I think I'll wait another 6 months and see how those months go first.

As far as the toes and feet go, I've already broken Kacee of that by using pennies in a can. Lots of pennies! It worked for her, but they are all different. She wouldn't pay any attention to me when I said no, either. It went in one ear and out the other.

You've somehow got to become the respected adult in the house and get him to pay attention to you when you tell him something. Good luck!

[ldenise]

Originally Posted by Herks Mom

I know his has gotten control of us. He rules the house. My fault Boy did I make a lot of mistakes. It has gotten to the point in the afternoon I am exhausted. He is so loving it's had to get him under control. Can I say spoiled brat. LOL I put him in his crate last night because of the barking and back talking. He would not hush, so I covered it with a towel. He normally sleeps in our bedroom. Not last night. He was fine. When I got up, I got him out of his cage, took him to his pad and tried to get him to TT. Got tired went and feed him. Walked around the island and low and behold he is peeing in the floor and looking up at me. Put him back in carrier. When my husband got up he said let him out. I told him that he had been out and was being punished again. This is going to be hard. The thing that gets me is he knows when he is going wrong. He does get exercise, even has a x pen outside. When he hears us talking about going, he starts jumping. He almost always goes with us in his carseat. If I get though this I will be doing good. I want to thank everyone for your help. I don't know what I would do without this site. I don't post alot but I do read almost everything.

you know this house breaking thing really came easy for Ahia. the way around her is with treats. once she got the idea that the treat is just after the potty she started going to the door to be let out. the way i started off is her learning the word potty. every time she went potty, I would say potty and i gave her a treat. (at first it was about every 15 minutes as a puppy). then i noticed she would go potty then the second she was finished she would look up at me for the treat. then she started going to the door. I was in amazment. the part of training her, i thought would be the hardest was actually the easiest. we now need to work on the "give me that sock!" thing.lol