Shadow was toy motivated. We have replaced squeaky bone god knows how many times. Its a 3 dollar toy from tractor supply. Works much better then food. And my horse had jolly balls and jugs with bells and yes i know horse toys.

Everyone has new neighbors. And one of mine i discovered were antisemitic white supremacists, so my idf with hebrew sweatshirt and my black coworker, they said some shit i will jot repeat and walked out. Next liquor store is 18 miles away. Good riddence.

I do alot of group training with my dogs. They all do it or none get a treat. Ive been trying to train spider to crawl. But shadow gave me issues until he was about 2ish. Then all the sudden he was smart and trained. I had different issues with him and some of it i blame on the guys on base. He was a biter. And whenever someone got too close he would growl and show teeth and the guys would laugh and tell him he was a good dog and i think he developed a complex. Hes bit 6 people including a kirtland afb mp and a blm law ranger (in the ass). So different then Zeus.

Didn't anyone tell you it was dust storm season? When they did the prep before and during the planting the dust was brown out conditions. You had to wear a mask around center. I saw everything Thursday sun rain snow hail dust storm and dust devils between aurora and here.

Besides playing with the Jolly Ball by himself and maybe chasing a tennis(like) ball, Zeus isn't too toy motivated. I don't think he wants much of anything except to be beside me (would you please go away and let me use the facilities by myself!)

We have made some progress, he's been out of the crate for two nights without any problems. He hasn't gotten into the trash or the dog food and hasn't left me any messes to clean up. (( knock on wood here! ))

He'll play with Sky - and Sky often initiates it - until I say the the rough housing has reached my limit! He'll try to "talk" to Avalanche and Avalanches response is "Get the @#$$ out of my face!" Avalanche has had him pinned and whining and Zeus still goes back for more. Don't understand that!

Im having almost 1 yr old puppy problems also. Tucker wont be coming back. Spider has been separate and part of it is he is too stupid to not come straight in her face. Something else i think is going on is spider is guarding jerry. We are back to spider acting differently when jerry is around and not in a good way. Got any tips on resource guarding? But he had diarrhea everywhere today. He ests my trees and rose bushes, he steals things off tables and he cries all night long. He acts like he is 8 weeks old not 10 months.

Sounds like terrible teens to me. Kasper has been trying to eat the buds off my iris. When we first got him he was horrible about wanting to be in kye's face. We tried to just let kye tell him to stay out of my face but kye wouldn't lay down the law all that well so I used an ecollar on vibrate. It wasn't consistently effective for him with how thick his fur is but it did the job. Mostly just taking him to play with other dogs was the biggest help. If you could find a neighbor dog to play with and get his energy out it would help him to better leave the natives alone. Bringing the energy level down can help with the guarding. Kenzi will guard hard if another dog's energy is too high. She doesn't like hyperactivity and gets really grumpy.

I'm gonna kill him!! I said that I didn't have any problems with him being out of the crate overnight and that was WRONG! I kept smelling dog stuff and could tell where it was ... how about behind the couch? I have a bookcase behind the couch with walking room there but seldom go back there ... found several days worth of "stuff" so he's back into the crate overnight!