My 6 month old German Sheppard is destrying everything... WHY?

Question

She started about a week ago when she scratched the bathroom linoleum and lifted it up, I give her toys that she like, and nothing, she still does what she knows she is not supposed to do. I took her to my bedroom with me and my baby Akita, and she stills takes stuff from my bedside table and destroys it. I woke up today to her eating my book, my skirt, my gym shoes and everything she can sink her teeth into. She is not teething, she already did that with ALL her teeth. And its not the Baby Akita, her cant reach any of what she took...

Anybody knows of a training method that I can use?

Answer 1

You have an untrained GSD, then you bought an Akita. Are you daft or what.

Toys won't keep an active GSD puppy happy, she needs several short walks a day until she is a year old. Now she needs play training and fun in your safe fenced garden/yard. Later, she will need two long walks a day and more training.



You must also start play training your Akita.



If you cannot cope with your dogs at present, how do you expect to walk them together when they are fully grown?



If there is any possibility that you will dump them, please do this before they mature.



No one wants to adopt an untrained dog, unless someone decides to use it as a watch dog. Consequently mature dogs are often euthanised, or tied up outside and neglected.

Answer 2

Oh god I just despair...!!!!



Please listen to the voices of experience within this section and for goodness sake take the akita pup back to the breeder and do not get another dog until the GSD is fully grown and fully trained.



Nobody in their right mind gets an akita pup (one of the hardest dogs to raise) when you already have a 6 month old GSD (another difficult dog that needs hours and hours and hours to keep occupied) and all by a school girl who couldn't possibly have the experience to deal with one of these dogs let alone two.



I despair at the person that allowed you to have two dogs like this and that would be the breeder and your parents.



You also say "she" for both ! You are just totally oblivious of the up and coming problems here with virtually no chance of these two making it through to adulthood without having to be split up and kept confined through bad manners.



Please let the akita go back to the breeder and then undertake the PROPER training of the GSD. This is a dog that needs a good hour a day training let alone the amount of physical exercise she needs.

Answer 3

Just been given the heads up on this one, much as I did see it earlier, and gave up even trying to answer. Suffice to say I agree with what has been said here - take the Akita back and concentrate on getting the puppy you already have sorted out.



I would just say in your defense (if it's necessary) that IF breeders took more care to find out where they are letting their precious puppies go problems like this may not need to happen. And you do know the breeder should be there to help you with problems like this ...... again if they heard from people like you who have problems, maybe they would take more care and ask more questions before just taking the money!

Answer 4

Crate her when she is unsupervised, keep her in sight when she is supervised - put her on a 6' leash and tie it to your beltloop if you have to!



She doesn't "know it's wrong" - dogs don't even think that way! She has never been corrected for it except when you were present and awake, how is she supposed to know that the rule generalized to when when you are absent or asleep?



Also increase her daily physical and mental exercise - double whatever walking/jogging and training sessions she is getting right now, double again if there is no improvement.



And why on earth did you get ANOTHER puppy before pup #1 was anywhere close to being trained?

Answer 5

Your dog is a puppy who is doing what all puppies do. When they're under exercised and bored they find things to do to amuse themselves.



You should not have got another puppy when you already have one untrained puppy. Now you'll be dealing with double trouble. Put your things away instead of leaving them lying around all over the place and the pup won't chew them.



It really sounds to me like you lost interest in her once the cute puppy stage had been outgrown so you bought another cute puppy. History will repeat itself unless you start training these dogs and take control of the situation....or what? When the Akita outgrows her puppy state will you get another 'cute' pup.

Answer 6

Exercise exercise and more exercise. Take her to a basic obedience class also. German shepards need something mental to do. Why would you get another puppy before you have trained your current puppy? I hope you have a lot of time. Both of these puppies are going to require a lot of training. Otherwise you have two large untrained protective breeds on your hands. I hope you researched and read up on each of these breeds. This is why dogs end up in shelters.

Answer 7

Yah- it's called SUPERVISION. When you are home, confine her to the room you are in. When you are not home, crate her. Make sure she gets an hour long structured leash walk 2x per day and that you continue formal obedience training up through the intermediate level. German SHEPHERDS need lots of physical activity and mental stimulation to be happy. You should not have gotten a puppy until the dog you have is under control and properly trained.

Answer 8

*Shepherd* *destroyed*



Seems like lack of training from a seemingly incompetent owner. It is a common thing nowadays... Sadly.



GSDs are large, active dogs. It is not enough to just "give" her toys... she must be stimulated and excercised. She must be given something to DO. They also require consistent training.. as with all dogs. But of course... you would know all of this if you would have done the research on the breed BEFORE getting one.

Answer 9

German shepherds need lots of exercise otherwise they will get destructive or rebellious. Have you been exercising her lately?



Another thing you can do is simply develop basic obedience skills. This may not directly like to chewing but once you become a firm leader that your dog learns to listen to, you will have more power over his actions when he is chewing. I know that with my dog I can get him to stop doing anything by firmly saying his name.... he has been obedience trained enough that he knows when I'm saying he's doing something wrong.

Answer 10

She a puppy you got to teach her no if you a a pin or a kennel and time she does so thing bad day no with a stern voice and put her in the pin for 5-10 mins and in a room by his or her self and if it starts crying don't acknowledge it but then it will no your not really mad at it