Susan 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 Hi! My name is Susan and this is the first time I have posted. I have a female AID, she looks just like Baingana, they could be sisters. Tasha Neche is 5 months old and it's hard to find all the words to discribe her. She is so sweet but wants things her way. If the other dog has a bone, she will waite for the appropriate time and then get his, she knows two bones are better than one. Nothing gets by her eyes, they are so quick. My other two dogs are 11 and 12 years old. Both of them are amused with her antics and are gentle and protective. My only area of concern, right now, is that Tasha has frequent accidents in the house. She always goes outside, when she comes back in, she will go again. I was wondering if she could be marking her territory? I have an African Gray parrot and Tasha does not pay too much attention to him, but, that is where she goes to the bathroom - right in front of his cage. The other dogs almost never have accidents. I am always patient, and never scold her. I just take her out again. Tasha was away at school for a month, she learned, but was very headstrong. She was quite a handful when it came to the leash. I do think Tasha is getting better, I have never seen a problem with this before. Thank you, Susan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Allison 2,369 Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 Hi Susan, and welcome. We have an Amazon, and and AIDog. Our dog tries to be nice to the parrot, but the parrot wants to bite him. She swings back and forth, while hanging upside down, trying to catch his wagging tail. Perhaps it has something to do with the dominance issue. Probably your parrot is top dog, if it is anything like ours. Or perhaps it has something to do with the guano. I'll check my books and see if I can find anything, but I would recommend that you get her checked, just in case she has a bladder infection or some other ailment that could cause similar symptoms. I know people who have struggled with this issue, only to find that their poor pet had a simple infection all along. Is she spayed? I'll be curious what the others say--there are many with more experience than I, and I have not had a female, yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gea 0 Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Hi! My name is Susan and this is the first time I have posted. I have a female AID, she looks just like Baingana, they could be sisters. Tasha Neche is 5 months old and it's hard to find all the words to discribe her. She is so sweet but wants things her way. If the other dog has a bone, she will waite for the appropriate time and then get his, she knows two bones are better than one. Nothing gets by her eyes, they are so quick. My other two dogs are 11 and 12 years old. Both of them are amused with her antics and are gentle and protective. My only area of concern, right now, is that Tasha has frequent accidents in the house. She always goes outside, when she comes back in, she will go again. I was wondering if she could be marking her territory? I have an African Gray parrot and Tasha does not pay too much attention to him, but, that is where she goes to the bathroom - right in front of his cage. The other dogs almost never have accidents. I am always patient, and never scold her. I just take her out again. Tasha was away at school for a month, she learned, but was very headstrong. She was quite a handful when it came to the leash. I do think Tasha is getting better, I have never seen a problem with this before. Thank you, Susan hi susan, glad you made it to the forum dont know al the answers but can tell you from my kaya, think she acts the same as your doggie kaya always has been a dominant dog,form 8 weeks on it think, she dominated our jack russel then already, she still is very alfa outsite the pieing, yes i think she uses that as a marker, when she is on strange land she never pies there, because she is not sure who the owner is of that land and if she can take him/her. then after a few walks on the same land, she pies alover it, this is mine, who wants to argu with that, just like a male dog, she goes so far with it that when she comes somewhere she thinks is hers, she wil poop there right infront of the dog/birth/human that comes by, did you see that i poop her what are you going to do about it, this is mine. now i wasnt for the spaying, not at all, thought i could handle her after having about 9 femal dogs in my life, can tell you forget about it, an aid female is different stuff, totaly out of control against other female dogs, she attacked almost every female in my neiberhoud by the time she was 9 months, really looking for them and going after them, at 9 1/2months i had her spayed, and now she is 11 months she is softening up a bit, it really helped her, she is not looking for other females, ofcourse dont trust her completely,when they come to close she still attacks them, but not on purpose anymore,also she is much more focused on me now, so i can do the sports with her again, so if you want my humble opinion, get that girl of yours spayed real fast lots of luck with raising your doggie, i know it costs a lot of your time, but in the end youll end up with a fantastic dog,who loves you to pieces and does about everything for you,just like my kaya gea just one more thing susan, you say she was away at school for a month, dont know if i understand this right, was she away without you on dogschool or where you there with her? see im dutch dont know how they do things in the usa, but if she was there without you thats a pitty, since you missed lots of bound with her then, i know my kaya when we where at school (we still are) really had to fight with that girl in the beginning, but it paid of in the end, she's doing great there now,knows all the commands, but still have to confince her to show it, she is very strong in her caracter, so i still have to show her who's boss, everyday and she is bored real fast gea Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Allison 2,369 Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 I am always patient, and never scold her. I just take her out again. Maybe it's time you scold her. Remember the "Tough Love" that Kim always talks about. I admit there were several times my dog was just taking advantage of my good nature. Get mad, get loud...make sure she understands, totally, that you do not like this behavior. She will cringe and act hurt, but trust me, they are masters at working us. Try to catch her ASAP after the act, preferably during--you might even set it up. Then yell NOOOOOOOOOO! As loud and as long as you feel, while rushing her outside. The longer it goes on, the longer it WILL go on. My dog used to like to pee on the neighbors dog, when it would come over. Caught me by surprise, the first time (we were outside), then thought it was a fluke, second time (we were in the house!), I was shocked again, but caught him in the act the third time, and aired his hairy butt outside. That was the last time. Although I kept a good watch on him for about a year, the dominant little blighter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Susan 0 Posted October 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Hi! Thank you for the quick response regarding Tasha and her wetting. I will become more of a force to be dealt with, and really let her know I am the boss and she needs to change her behavior. I have planned to have her spade toward the end of the month. I am off work for the next five weeks and will have more time to work with her. Gea, you asked if she went away for teaching, she did, and I know that that was an easy way for me. At the time I was working extra hours and I knew she needed to start learning at four months. I think most people go to school with their dogs. It is nice now, we can go on from where her trainer left off. She was schooled by a lady I have known for about 13 years and is very good and I trust. One more thing, I love to garden and have never had a dog that liked to dig holes. Tasha Neche is a digger and I do not know if there is anything I can do to change that. So far, I have filled in the holes, I know she eventually will dig them again. Tasha is young and I love her very much. I remember when my malamute named Bishop was young, he did some bad things, like stealing a whole chicken and eating it all. Susan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gea 0 Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Hi! Thank you for the quick response regarding Tasha and her wetting. I will become more of a force to be dealt with, and really let her know I am the boss and she needs to change her behavior. I have planned to have her spade toward the end of the month. I am off work for the next five weeks and will have more time to work with her. Gea, you asked if she went away for teaching, she did, and I know that that was an easy way for me. At the time I was working extra hours and I knew she needed to start learning at four months. I think most people go to school with their dogs. It is nice now, we can go on from where her trainer left off. She was schooled by a lady I have known for about 13 years and is very good and I trust. One more thing, I love to garden and have never had a dog that liked to dig holes. Tasha Neche is a digger and I do not know if there is anything I can do to change that. So far, I have filled in the holes, I know she eventually will dig them again. Tasha is young and I love her very much. I remember when my malamute named Bishop was young, he did some bad things, like stealing a whole chicken and eating it all. Susan hi susan seems like your dog looks alot like mine, kaya diggs untill she hits water lol i tryed to stop her,but no luck, now we got away with al the grass there are only stones there, stone path i mean, just 2 square meters of plants and she still manage to kill does, got to live with that, my little digger, but she is so sweet too, good luck with your tasha, she'll be fine in time gea Quote Link to post Share on other sites
James 0 Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 My suggestion is to just stay consistant and really firm. Make sure she knows thats not acceptable. It took Peyote a while on that too, and i don't think it was an alpha thing. could have been a territory thing though. as far a the digging goes i think you have to catch her in the act and again be a strong firm alpha. i don't woory about the digging much, if they can get through that rock in our back yard, more power to them... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gea 0 Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 My suggestion is to just stay consistant and really firm. Make sure she knows thats not acceptable. It took Peyote a while on that too, and i don't think it was an alpha thing. could have been a territory thing though. as far a the digging goes i think you have to catch her in the act and again be a strong firm alpha. i don't woory about the digging much, if they can get through that rock in our back yard, more power to them... hello jim, no she cant get through the rock anymore lol so we are fine now, just on school ,when she is bored she diggs some holes there, and really i dont care about that, they just have to make class more interesting for her then gea Quote Link to post Share on other sites
luna6killer 6 Posted October 14, 2006 Report Share Posted October 14, 2006 You can stop your dog from digging in the same spots by putting some of their feces in the hole - they won't dig there again - eventually it will stop them unless they have tons of acreage to dig in <g> Kind of gross way to do it but it was something that Kim told me about and was suprised that it worked! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NorCal 350 Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 You can stop your dog from digging in the same spots by putting some of their feces in the hole - they won't dig there again - eventually it will stop them unless they have tons of acreage to dig in Kind of gross way to do it but it was something that Kim told me about and was suprised that it worked! THANKS ...seems I have a little gardener on my hands too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rik 183 Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 Nita has ruined my potato patch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Allison 2,369 Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 Coyo helped me dig the post holes for his kennel. Then he was done. Too much work. Sitka has one hole, that he loves. I try to fill it in, but each time he excavates it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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