Good Morning All, here's our quick intro... We are a family of three with two dogs and a turtle! We have a Samoyed who came to us thru a breeder rescue at 18 months and he's now 3 years old just in March. We also have a red eared slider turtle we adopted off of craigs list (so he's our turtle rescue), and we have our lovely little Lucy... a basset hound who just turned one in January and is from the new england basset hound rescue.
I have a TON of dog knowledge. I have worked as a vet tech for 3 years in the early 2000's. I have been involved in dog rescue for years. I have fostered and rehomed 4 dogs (one being a wild wolf/coyote high bred) and did that successfully bringing these anxious neglected dogs around to be balanced happy dogs able to learn and grow in their next families.
Anyway, this is about Lucy. We adopted her last year when she was just 9 months old. She had been adopted and returned twice at this young age. NO reason was given as to why the other two people returned her. The NEBHR simply described her as young and wonderful and 95% housetrained (hmmm yah, right). We've not had a basset before and I didn't really know all that much about them. I learnned that they can be stubborn and difficult to train but I was not daunted by this challange. I had great hope because she was such a young rescue that she could be turned around quickly.
She is a total doll. Really a love. My sammy ADORES her. My son adores her and so do we. most of the time. She plays hard. She does not let her short stature get in the way of being one of the most active physical animals I"ve had! She will NOT be housetrained. We have tried EVERY angle and resorted to kennel training and have been doing this since december... but she can not progress beyond it. We live in a series of baby gates keeping her out of the upstairs (her favorite pee/poo place is on the carpets in the tv room and in my sons room). We lock her up while we are at work and she has never soiled her kennel but we would like to be able to have her free in the house with the sammy while we're gone. she also destroys everything in her path and eats crayons with the gluttony of wild trojans.
we live in a condo setting so we do not have a fenced yard which isn't an issue because we spend lots of time outside. Here's our dog walk schedule...
we get up at 5 am and I walk them for an hour. (usually she waits until we get back in side to poop- no matter how long we're out). we allowed her to find a designated poop spot as I learned bassets often like to go in the same area and she DOES use the spot fairely often. But not every time. OUr sammy will not poop on the property so he's a dream... at lunch I come home and walk them for 1/2 hour. My husband comes home from work by 4:30 and walks them for a good long 1.5 hours and then they go out several more times throughout the evening. Neither dogs "asks" to go out. Our sammy knows the schedule and goes accordingly. We try to watch Lu and take her out when she is acting like she needs to. Also, if there is the SLIGHTEST distraction outside she'll forget to go to the bathroom and do it once we're back inside.
That's the bathroom issue. She also barks/bays all the time. ALL THE TIME. and it sounds like someone skinning a giant weasle alive.
It's ming boggling and ear shattering and she does it with the slightest outside distraction (if she sees someone out the window, if she sees a bird out the window, if she hears someone starting their car...).
She acts like a kid on a sugar high with ADD and it's making our lives stressful when they shouldn't be. We LOVE her. I've never given up on a dog and I am sorry for the LONG post but I'm hoping one of you can give me a new look into her "case" and I can come up with another idea.
I have a TON of dog knowledge. I have worked as a vet tech for 3 years in the early 2000's. I have been involved in dog rescue for years. I have fostered and rehomed 4 dogs (one being a wild wolf/coyote high bred) and did that successfully bringing these anxious neglected dogs around to be balanced happy dogs able to learn and grow in their next families.
Anyway, this is about Lucy. We adopted her last year when she was just 9 months old. She had been adopted and returned twice at this young age. NO reason was given as to why the other two people returned her. The NEBHR simply described her as young and wonderful and 95% housetrained (hmmm yah, right). We've not had a basset before and I didn't really know all that much about them. I learnned that they can be stubborn and difficult to train but I was not daunted by this challange. I had great hope because she was such a young rescue that she could be turned around quickly.
She is a total doll. Really a love. My sammy ADORES her. My son adores her and so do we. most of the time. She plays hard. She does not let her short stature get in the way of being one of the most active physical animals I"ve had! She will NOT be housetrained. We have tried EVERY angle and resorted to kennel training and have been doing this since december... but she can not progress beyond it. We live in a series of baby gates keeping her out of the upstairs (her favorite pee/poo place is on the carpets in the tv room and in my sons room). We lock her up while we are at work and she has never soiled her kennel but we would like to be able to have her free in the house with the sammy while we're gone. she also destroys everything in her path and eats crayons with the gluttony of wild trojans.
we live in a condo setting so we do not have a fenced yard which isn't an issue because we spend lots of time outside. Here's our dog walk schedule...
we get up at 5 am and I walk them for an hour. (usually she waits until we get back in side to poop- no matter how long we're out). we allowed her to find a designated poop spot as I learned bassets often like to go in the same area and she DOES use the spot fairely often. But not every time. OUr sammy will not poop on the property so he's a dream... at lunch I come home and walk them for 1/2 hour. My husband comes home from work by 4:30 and walks them for a good long 1.5 hours and then they go out several more times throughout the evening. Neither dogs "asks" to go out. Our sammy knows the schedule and goes accordingly. We try to watch Lu and take her out when she is acting like she needs to. Also, if there is the SLIGHTEST distraction outside she'll forget to go to the bathroom and do it once we're back inside.
That's the bathroom issue. She also barks/bays all the time. ALL THE TIME. and it sounds like someone skinning a giant weasle alive.
It's ming boggling and ear shattering and she does it with the slightest outside distraction (if she sees someone out the window, if she sees a bird out the window, if she hears someone starting their car...).She acts like a kid on a sugar high with ADD and it's making our lives stressful when they shouldn't be. We LOVE her. I've never given up on a dog and I am sorry for the LONG post but I'm hoping one of you can give me a new look into her "case" and I can come up with another idea.
