ashleyjanney28
Sep 20, 2011, 08:03 PM
Hello Everyone,
About three days ago my fiancŽ went to our local animal shelter and decided to foster a 1 year old beagle mix. We plan on adopting her but we need help with multiple problems. The shelter didn't have much information about her except for this:
-shes about a year old (still does the puppy biting/nipping thing)
-she was fostered 3 times and 2 of the people brought her back, they don't know what happened with the last person. She was micro-chiped and when she returned to the shelter the 3rd time she had been shot. (no major physical damage was done)
- she has anxiety problems.
- she's a beagle mix, not sure what exactly but she looks like she's got pointer in her as well.
Problems:
She's had about 3-4 accidents in the apartment. A majority of the time she refuses to go on walks and when we do get her outside she tries to hide under cars. She also pulls extremley hard to get back home. We've taken her to the park with our other dog and let her run inside of the tennis court but even with that she refuses to go and tries to hide behind one of us. How do I show her not to be afraid to go out?
She's had multiple owners, she knows only Sit and Stay but also tugs her leash when she wants to go out. That's ties in with my first problem. She wants to go out but won't leave... am I missing something?
She's got to be the center of attention, She has jumped on us and bit our heads and necks when we were paying attention to the other dog, not in an aggressive way but it still hurts. Even when we try to calm her down and tell her no she tries playing and biting us or our other dog.
This is the second dog we've adopted and we had a couple similar issues in the past it just wasn't this severe. We've become attatched to this sweet animal and I refuse to send it back like everyone else did.
Does anyone have any advice? Please and Thank you =)
About three days ago my fiancŽ went to our local animal shelter and decided to foster a 1 year old beagle mix. We plan on adopting her but we need help with multiple problems. The shelter didn't have much information about her except for this:
-shes about a year old (still does the puppy biting/nipping thing)
-she was fostered 3 times and 2 of the people brought her back, they don't know what happened with the last person. She was micro-chiped and when she returned to the shelter the 3rd time she had been shot. (no major physical damage was done)
- she has anxiety problems.
- she's a beagle mix, not sure what exactly but she looks like she's got pointer in her as well.
Problems:
She's had about 3-4 accidents in the apartment. A majority of the time she refuses to go on walks and when we do get her outside she tries to hide under cars. She also pulls extremley hard to get back home. We've taken her to the park with our other dog and let her run inside of the tennis court but even with that she refuses to go and tries to hide behind one of us. How do I show her not to be afraid to go out?
She's had multiple owners, she knows only Sit and Stay but also tugs her leash when she wants to go out. That's ties in with my first problem. She wants to go out but won't leave... am I missing something?
She's got to be the center of attention, She has jumped on us and bit our heads and necks when we were paying attention to the other dog, not in an aggressive way but it still hurts. Even when we try to calm her down and tell her no she tries playing and biting us or our other dog.
This is the second dog we've adopted and we had a couple similar issues in the past it just wasn't this severe. We've become attatched to this sweet animal and I refuse to send it back like everyone else did.
Does anyone have any advice? Please and Thank you =)