I adore my dog, she's the best cuddle buddy and is the sweetest little girl when she wants to be. As a puppy, I joked that she had no voice since she never barked. This has all changed. I'm half in need of emotional support, half in need of a vent! (I have an R+ trainer but there are none within 90 minutes so we meet halfway at a park)
Edit: I have put so much time and effort daily into training her. Sit, stay, down, recall, etc., but she is still the "worst" dog my family has had, seemingly for no reason...
Edit 2: She's not spayed yet, as my vet has said not to do so until she's had her first heat.
- She hates walks, like, won't go anywhere. She tries to drag me home. The only places she likes are wide open but living in the city centre we can't do that more than 1/2 times a week. There's a lovely park down the road which is perfect for a dog her size, but she hates it. Even different routes in my local area don't seem to agree with her. She'll stand in one spot and sniff and then pull the neck off of herself to get home. I reward her for engagement but she literally just wants to go home and won't stop even for her favourite treats.
- She barks all the time. Came along with adolescence. She'll bark at the wall, the door, anything on any counter, a cardboard box, literally anything. She gets obsessed with these things and won't stop barking until they're put away (if they can be). I treat her when she's quiet but everything sets her off. She especially loves to bark whilst I'm cooking, she'll stand there and bark until I've finished cooking and eating. I've been place training and she knows 'place' and 'break' but as soon as she sees I'm cooking or eating all hell breaks loose.
- She steals everything. Literally everything. Shoes, toilet paper, socks, dirty laundry, anything. She'll ruin them all so everything has to be kept out of sight (or she'll bark non-stop). She has an abundance of natural chews (bully sticks, fish skins, beef tendon, rabbit ears) and lickimats, but she doesn't give them a second look if there's anything else around. She's recently learned how to jump up onto the table and will take any food that's there, no matter what enrichment she has in her box or by her mat. I live with my dad and she's got on his last nerve with stealing his food. I push in my chair if I need to grab something when I have food on the table, but he keeps forgetting which is obviously reenforcing the behaviour. I put her in place, give her a chew or a lickimat, and she still just insists or barking and jumping and trying to get the food even if she's eaten 5 minutes before. She's not fed from the table and never has been.
- She still pees and poops inside constantly. I thought we were getting to a really good place when she was ~5 months old, she was alerting at the door to go out, could hold overnight, etc. She now does 6 poops a day at any time of the day or night, so if I'm not home with her at all times she will poop inside. For example, she got up at 7am yesterday, did a huge poop and pee outside, ate, went to bed. I was gone from 8-10am and she'd already done another poop inside. She also pees at incredibly irregular intervals, either every 5 hours or every hour. She'll alert for the door and go out and pee and com back in, but at least once a day she'll just do it on the floor for seemingly no reason. This is killing me as I take her out on a. regular schedule still but she's 7 months now and will still have daily accidents. I know she's not doing it to spite me but at this point I'm losing hope.
Edit: I have put so much time and effort daily into training her. Sit, stay, down, recall, etc., but she is still the "worst" dog my family has had, seemingly for no reason...
Edit 2: She's not spayed yet, as my vet has said not to do so until she's had her first heat.