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I carefully studied my dog today and I've seen that with me, my husband, and my eldest kids she's okay with albeit the jumping which has lessened considerably. However, with the two younger kids (toddler and the 4 year old and the 10 year old) she's almost obsessed with them. He drives and pulls towards them, he whines when they leave the room.
When I got the dog from the owner, I was told she would only eat or drink water if her bowl had a ball in them, she's thunderstorm phobic, and has separation anxiety to the point where she starts chasing and biting her tail.
Around other dogs, she pulls hard and becomes very very focused on other dogs. I have to body block her constantly and keeping nudhing my knees by her head to get her to keep attention on me. She rarely barks but is on HIGH ALERT. The behavior resembles the same behaviour seen around kids except with the kids, she starts whining.
I know that I could train a puppy GSD or a dog that had not had such a LACK of training/rules, because I did train her to do somethings (give paw, go in crate, sleep under my desk, stand by my bed). However, I think that fixing UNWANTED BEHAVIOURS is HARDER? Am I right? Please give me your thoughts and recommendations or criticisms.
As of today, I have returned the dog to the owner who only adopted her to me as a trial basis to see if we could even handle the dog.
*Guys, I lost access to my email and couldn't do a password reset because I don't remeber that either and this computer saved my user. My new user is GSDwetkissies92.
When I got the dog from the owner, I was told she would only eat or drink water if her bowl had a ball in them, she's thunderstorm phobic, and has separation anxiety to the point where she starts chasing and biting her tail.
Around other dogs, she pulls hard and becomes very very focused on other dogs. I have to body block her constantly and keeping nudhing my knees by her head to get her to keep attention on me. She rarely barks but is on HIGH ALERT. The behavior resembles the same behaviour seen around kids except with the kids, she starts whining.
I know that I could train a puppy GSD or a dog that had not had such a LACK of training/rules, because I did train her to do somethings (give paw, go in crate, sleep under my desk, stand by my bed). However, I think that fixing UNWANTED BEHAVIOURS is HARDER? Am I right? Please give me your thoughts and recommendations or criticisms.
As of today, I have returned the dog to the owner who only adopted her to me as a trial basis to see if we could even handle the dog.
*Guys, I lost access to my email and couldn't do a password reset because I don't remeber that either and this computer saved my user. My new user is GSDwetkissies92.