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Hi everyone--
I am new to this board but I am glad I found it as hopefully someone will be able to help. We have two labs, both of which will be a year old in May. Goliath we've had since he was 12wks old, Jake we just got back in February as a rescue, we're military and a soldier was being sent to Iraq and needed to find a home for his dog, so we took him in. The majority of this post will be about dear Jake. When we got him he was living in the back yard of this mans home and covered in his own feces, no food or water on the premesis and he was tied to a tree with your average rope. He took very well to our other lab and we thought we had it easy. We've had him since February and it seems as though he is getting worse as far as behavior goes. Our other lab was never like this, perhaps it's because we had him since he was little, but Jake definitely has behavioral issues that we need to fix, we just can't figure out what to do. He has taken to eating all of the woodwork in our apartment. He has single-handedly eaten an entire windowsil. He almost only does this when we are out of the house but we don't know how to keep him from this. We bought the bitter-yuck spray from petsmart but that doesn't seem to stop him at all. We have bought several chew toys for him, and he uses them when we're here, but as soon as we're gone he goes to work. In the beginning we were confused as to which one it was that was eating the woodwork and punishing both until Jake vomitted a pile of woodshavings one day. Now he's elevated to the point that he's now eating night-lights and pulling plates off the counter. No matter how soon we catch him and tell him no, it hasn't made a difference. He's ruining our place and we're in the process of building a new house, a major reason for our new house was the amount of land we would have for our dogs to run, but we don't want him to ruin the new place. We're also expecting our first child and am afraid of what he'll do if we introduce a new baby into the pack. We would hate to have to get rid of him as he's an adorable sweet yellow lab when he's not chewing the house apart. We're just at a loss as to what to do as we've never had this problem with Goliath. Any suggestions on how to help the situation would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in Advance-
Kris
I am new to this board but I am glad I found it as hopefully someone will be able to help. We have two labs, both of which will be a year old in May. Goliath we've had since he was 12wks old, Jake we just got back in February as a rescue, we're military and a soldier was being sent to Iraq and needed to find a home for his dog, so we took him in. The majority of this post will be about dear Jake. When we got him he was living in the back yard of this mans home and covered in his own feces, no food or water on the premesis and he was tied to a tree with your average rope. He took very well to our other lab and we thought we had it easy. We've had him since February and it seems as though he is getting worse as far as behavior goes. Our other lab was never like this, perhaps it's because we had him since he was little, but Jake definitely has behavioral issues that we need to fix, we just can't figure out what to do. He has taken to eating all of the woodwork in our apartment. He has single-handedly eaten an entire windowsil. He almost only does this when we are out of the house but we don't know how to keep him from this. We bought the bitter-yuck spray from petsmart but that doesn't seem to stop him at all. We have bought several chew toys for him, and he uses them when we're here, but as soon as we're gone he goes to work. In the beginning we were confused as to which one it was that was eating the woodwork and punishing both until Jake vomitted a pile of woodshavings one day. Now he's elevated to the point that he's now eating night-lights and pulling plates off the counter. No matter how soon we catch him and tell him no, it hasn't made a difference. He's ruining our place and we're in the process of building a new house, a major reason for our new house was the amount of land we would have for our dogs to run, but we don't want him to ruin the new place. We're also expecting our first child and am afraid of what he'll do if we introduce a new baby into the pack. We would hate to have to get rid of him as he's an adorable sweet yellow lab when he's not chewing the house apart. We're just at a loss as to what to do as we've never had this problem with Goliath. Any suggestions on how to help the situation would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in Advance-
Kris