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Open Question: Could my dog be reverting to puppy like behavior? ? |
My three and a half year old husky came with a crate when we rescued him, and then I trained him with it until he was potty trained. We rescued him when he was 7 months old or so, but he had no training before us.After he was potty trained we no longer crated him, but we left his crate available to him with a blanket and some toys. Months and months later he had totally abandoned his crate, and didn’t care to sleep in it anymore. Eventually we stuck it in a room that we don’t use much.Last month we adopted a puppy and we decided to use his crate to crate train her. This was fine with our dog for the first few weeks, but in this last week he’s decided that he wants his crate back!Now I have a hard time getting him out of the crate, seeing as he’s much bigger than he used to be, and the crate hasn’t grown any, and he sneaks in there when ever I try to get the puppy in there first. As I type he’s sleeping in the crate and the puppy’s sleeping outside of it. This isn’t good because I don’t want the puppy to feel like she’s sleeping in his territory every time I put her in there. I want her to feel that it’s her own.We tried borrowing a crate to see how two crates would do, and no luck. When she goes in the other crate, he cries and cries to go in it, and tries to kick her out.When we lock both of them in the crates, he starts crying to get out, which makes her (the puppy) start crying as well. He’s a very stubborn dog. I can’t make them sleep in separate rooms because my parents don’t want to put up with their barking, and the puppy will cry for him, and then he’ll start crying for her, and that can go on for hours.Could he be reverting to his puppy years, when he didn’t mind his crate because he’s jealous of the puppy? I’ve been going out of my way to make sure he gets his exercise and extra attention, so does any one have any advice on dog jealousy?I know we all have internet attention spans, but I added lots of detail so that you’d know what I’ve tried already :-pI did try putting them in separate crates and it results in both of them freaking out. And I don’t know how I guided him to puppy like behavior, care to elaborate? If I yell at my dog every time he goes in the crate, wouldn’t that make my pup think the crate is a bad place?
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