I tried another dog forum with little success-not that anyone was unhelpful but no one really replied tome, anyway.
I live with a good friend of mine and hid girlfriend. He recently got a wolf/huskie hybrid about 6-7 months ago. This dog is an absolute nightmare. It pees inside all the time, it pees upon being pet, it pees upon seeing new people, and pees upon being scolded.
Every day i come home from work, she hears a car pull up and jumps up along the fence to see who it is. I gently rub her head, look down and she's peeing everywhere. Same goes if i come home and she's inside. We literally have to pet her outside most of the time to avoid her peeing everywhere. She also does odd things, like laying on her side/back and just peeing in the air-often soaking herself in it. Many times i'll have let her outside to pee, and she'll find a spot and do it, and the instant she comes inside and i give her a treat and praise her, she'll pee if i start petting her again. A friend of mine stopped in from out of town the other day (the dog has never seen him) and upon opening the front door and walking in, she bolted into the kitchen and peed everywhere. My roommate just swears that she's still a puppy and will get over this, however I feel like it's gone on a little too long. He says he's familar with how to raise dogs as his family has had several over the years, and that she's still young and learning. However the dog's sister, which his parents own, behaves extremely well.
The next few things I'm not sure anyone can really help with; but she also digs under the fence to one neighbors yard, and actually jumps the some five-foot tall fence on TWO of the other sides of the fence into the other neighbors' yards. She's also fond of chewing holes in the carpet, chewing through cable wires both inside and outside, and of course chewing on shoes and slippers. She recently discovered she can lift the top of the trash can in the kitchen up with her nose, and cram her whole head inside. We've resorted to just putting something heavy atop the garbage can. She's also begun dragging her food and water dish all over the house making all kinds of noise and spilling water everywhere in the process. We can't seem to get her to respond to simple commands like "sit", "stay" or even "no". Once in a while she'll sit for food, but that's few and far between.
He's got what i guess you'd call a shock collar, it has a small remote and you con send electric shock's to it if it's behaving badly. I don't think this really helps anything at all, i don't think the animal understands why it's getting shocked and thus doesn't really learn.
Any small advice would be really appreciated, my friend keeps throwing some blame on me and his girlfriend telling us since he can't be around all the time (work and school) that we need to pitch in and assist him in training it. He's even thinking about getting another older well-trained dog because he thinks it'll help his dog learn, however i think that's a horrible idea and me and his girlfriend are really against it. Thank you.
*edit: oh yea, we can't get her to stop biting (play biting mostly but sometimes it hurts and or it's just terribly annoying) and jumping up on people =\
I live with a good friend of mine and hid girlfriend. He recently got a wolf/huskie hybrid about 6-7 months ago. This dog is an absolute nightmare. It pees inside all the time, it pees upon being pet, it pees upon seeing new people, and pees upon being scolded.
Every day i come home from work, she hears a car pull up and jumps up along the fence to see who it is. I gently rub her head, look down and she's peeing everywhere. Same goes if i come home and she's inside. We literally have to pet her outside most of the time to avoid her peeing everywhere. She also does odd things, like laying on her side/back and just peeing in the air-often soaking herself in it. Many times i'll have let her outside to pee, and she'll find a spot and do it, and the instant she comes inside and i give her a treat and praise her, she'll pee if i start petting her again. A friend of mine stopped in from out of town the other day (the dog has never seen him) and upon opening the front door and walking in, she bolted into the kitchen and peed everywhere. My roommate just swears that she's still a puppy and will get over this, however I feel like it's gone on a little too long. He says he's familar with how to raise dogs as his family has had several over the years, and that she's still young and learning. However the dog's sister, which his parents own, behaves extremely well.
The next few things I'm not sure anyone can really help with; but she also digs under the fence to one neighbors yard, and actually jumps the some five-foot tall fence on TWO of the other sides of the fence into the other neighbors' yards. She's also fond of chewing holes in the carpet, chewing through cable wires both inside and outside, and of course chewing on shoes and slippers. She recently discovered she can lift the top of the trash can in the kitchen up with her nose, and cram her whole head inside. We've resorted to just putting something heavy atop the garbage can. She's also begun dragging her food and water dish all over the house making all kinds of noise and spilling water everywhere in the process. We can't seem to get her to respond to simple commands like "sit", "stay" or even "no". Once in a while she'll sit for food, but that's few and far between.
He's got what i guess you'd call a shock collar, it has a small remote and you con send electric shock's to it if it's behaving badly. I don't think this really helps anything at all, i don't think the animal understands why it's getting shocked and thus doesn't really learn.
Any small advice would be really appreciated, my friend keeps throwing some blame on me and his girlfriend telling us since he can't be around all the time (work and school) that we need to pitch in and assist him in training it. He's even thinking about getting another older well-trained dog because he thinks it'll help his dog learn, however i think that's a horrible idea and me and his girlfriend are really against it. Thank you.
*edit: oh yea, we can't get her to stop biting (play biting mostly but sometimes it hurts and or it's just terribly annoying) and jumping up on people =\
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