i cannot stand my dog

imported_Reck

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Seriously. My dog will try anything to try to get food....she's becoming more and more disobedient. She just sat right in the middle of a doorway to try to get me to drop my plate of food i was carrying. i seriously wnna smack her stupid azz...but that'd be wrong. :|

 

artikk

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Originally posted by: Reck
Seriously. My dog will try anything to try to get food....she's becoming more and more disobedient. She just sat right in the middle of a doorway to try to get me to drop my plate of food i was carrying. i seriously wnna smack her stupid azz...but that'd be wrong. :|

Why do you still have the dog then if you hate its behavior so much? :confused:
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: Reck
Seriously. My dog will try anything to try to get food....she's becoming more and more disobedient. She just sat right in the middle of a doorway to try to get me to drop my plate of food i was carrying. i seriously wnna smack her stupid azz...but that'd be wrong. :|
you sound like a sucky pet owner.

 

yllus

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Originally posted by: Reck
Seriously. My dog will try anything to try to get food....she's becoming more and more disobedient. She just sat right in the middle of a doorway to try to get me to drop my plate of food i was carrying. i seriously wnna smack her stupid azz...but that'd be wrong. :|
Be a man and smack that dog's @$$. It isn't a child for God's sake.
 

HardWarrior

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Originally posted by: Reck
Seriously. My dog will try anything to try to get food....she's becoming more and more disobedient. She just sat right in the middle of a doorway to try to get me to drop my plate of food i was carrying. i seriously wnna smack her stupid azz...but that'd be wrong. :|

Don't give her anything but dog food. She'll figure it out after a while. BTW, hitting doesn't help with dogs, firmness does.

 

imported_Reck

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It's not really my dog but my parents...part husky and part something else.

I've tried everything with her...and no I'm not a bad pet owner. I've had multiple pets since I was 3....I'm so good with them I literaly read their minds. I've tried displine of all kinds it just doesn't work...if I yell she'll just back down for awhile and then a day later she'll back right back doing the same things. Routing through the trash, tearing up plastic bags, eating the cats food...and she knows damn well she's not supposed to. The less human food I give her the worse she get's actually...it's just such of a drain I pretty much just have started ignoring her so she's gotten worse.

This is why I like cats...

 

HardWarrior

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Give her NO food besides dog food. When I said firm that's just what I meant. When she does something you don't like tell her so. "No!" in a quick, firm voice is a powerful tool. Dogs don't infer meaning to words as much as the tone you use when delivering them. She needs to know that you're above her in the pecking order (pack animals, remember), that you have a good side and a bad side and that it's in her interest to stay on your good side. The only way to do this is to RIDE her about the things she does that you don't like. This process takes time but the rewards are immense.

Also, develop a training schedule where you work with her. This will give her a purpose, dogs need to feel useful too. The process burns energy and will get her used to complying with your wishes. Hunt up some speifics on the type of dog you have and remember, be FIRM about how you want things. It's not easy, but stay with it.
 

0roo0roo

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u suck at the training. go read a book. she's been rewarded for this behavior in the past, i bet u or someone else has reinforced it pretty welll
 

nageov3t

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Originally posted by: HardWarrior
Originally posted by: Reck
Seriously. My dog will try anything to try to get food....she's becoming more and more disobedient. She just sat right in the middle of a doorway to try to get me to drop my plate of food i was carrying. i seriously wnna smack her stupid azz...but that'd be wrong. :|

Don't give her anything but dog food. She'll figure it out after a while. BTW, hitting doesn't help with dogs, firmness does.

:thumbsup:
 

mobobuff

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Apr 5, 2004
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Huskies are much harder to train or housebreak than other dogs, they don't try to please their owners as much as other "domestic" dogs. Without proper training, if they see food, they're gonna want it, and not recognize that it's not for them. It just takes some extra patience and negative reinforcement to get it through the dog's head that it needs to respect you a little more.

I have a part husky part wolf, and she behaves now much better than I've seen anyone else's dog behave. I still give her real food from time to time too, but she still knows that if I'm making something for myself, that it's not for her.
 

EpsiIon

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Originally posted by: Reck
It's not really my dog but my parents...part husky and part something else.

I've tried everything with her...and no I'm not a bad pet owner. I've had multiple pets since I was 3....I'm so good with them I literaly read their minds. I've tried displine of all kinds it just doesn't work...if I yell she'll just back down for awhile and then a day later she'll back right back doing the same things. Routing through the trash, tearing up plastic bags, eating the cats food...and she knows damn well she's not supposed to. The less human food I give her the worse she get's actually...it's just such of a drain I pretty much just have started ignoring her so she's gotten worse.

This is why I like cats...

Don't have children.

 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: EpsiIon
Originally posted by: Reck
It's not really my dog but my parents...part husky and part something else.

I've tried everything with her...and no I'm not a bad pet owner. I've had multiple pets since I was 3....I'm so good with them I literaly read their minds. I've tried displine of all kinds it just doesn't work...if I yell she'll just back down for awhile and then a day later she'll back right back doing the same things. Routing through the trash, tearing up plastic bags, eating the cats food...and she knows damn well she's not supposed to. The less human food I give her the worse she get's actually...it's just such of a drain I pretty much just have started ignoring her so she's gotten worse.

This is why I like cats...

Don't have children.

 

Fritzo

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Jan 3, 2001
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Shock colar w/ remote. It did wonders for my dog. She's now perfectly trained. Any bad behavior- ZAP!!!!
 

0roo0roo

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husky would even more obedient based on its pack instinct, as long as you make sure you are the leader:p