<p>We have gotten a Golden Doodle about 6 months ago, she is the worst dog I have ever seen in my life and she makes my life a living freaking hell.</p>
<p>She eats everything (Including my notebook for AP Euro, luckily you can still read the notes it's just really chewed up and gross)
She barks through the night LOUDLY and early in the morning so I hardly ever get sleep
She jumps up on you and is the most needy dog ever and if you aren't giving her attention 24/7 she goes into a fit and barks uncontrollably until you give her attention.
She always poops in the house
She terrorizes our cats
She rolls in horse poop and gets all over her huge coat which is the worst smell imaginable</p>
<p>and I could go on forever. We have sent her to obedience school, tried everything to train her, nothing has worked. She is already like 3 going on 4 (We got her when she was like 3) so it's not like it's just puppy nonsense, she should be past that phase by now, and it's literally making my life 10x harder and this morning she started barking loudly at 5:30 A.M in the morning and I was really close to going out and beating the living @#%$ out of her because she does this almost every morning and sometimes starts at like 2-3 in the morning on days before I have school and I am ALWAYS tired for school and it is really starting to have an effect on my school and grades. Do you guys know what I should do.</p>
<p>Give it away. Put an ad on Craigslist (okay, maybe not Craigslist) - or your local newspaper for someone to take the dog. Make up some excuse as to why you can no longer care for her (like you’re moving to a no-pets-apartment or something) – rather than saying “my dog is a living nightmare… 200 dollars, pick up only.” </p>
<p>The title made me think of that thing that happened a couple years ago where a girl threatened to kill her cat and eat it if Miley Cyrus didn’t reactivate her Twitter after she deleted it. It was on different news sites and international blogs and everything – I’m 99% sure she went through with it because Miley Cyrus refused to comply. </p>
<p>I would pay $500 for somebody to take that dog. My parents think it would be wrong because she has had 4 people already give her up and don’t want to put her through that again. (I say screw her but it’s my parents decision at the end of the day)</p>
<p>I’m not a big animal lover and I’m not into the whole “animals have complex emotions just like humans” bit - I think that if you did “put the dog through it” and give her away, she’d be stressed out momentarily and then forget about it for the most part. Moving the animal from home to home doesn’t seem that traumatic for a dog, it isn’t as if you’re beating the dog or anything. </p>
<p>If the dog was ever beaten she probably freaking deserved it, just saying. Freaking Mary Poppins would end up going Super Sayain on that stupid piece of @$#%.</p>
<p>LOL, I feel your pain. I had a cat a few years ago that was an absolute nightmare. She was aggressive and terrifying. She was a black cat and really skinny and had these sickly yellow eyes. I don’t even know why we adopted her. If you walked into a room she was in, she’d hiss, if you tried to touch her or pet her, she’d scratch and bite. We gave her away after 2 months. She was a living hell. </p>
<p>Okay… you don’t “send” a dog to obedience school. The point of obedience school is really to train YOU (the owner) so you can consistently work with your dog to get the behavior you want. </p>
<p>Does she have a crate and an area where she is put when she isn’t supposed to be running around the house unsupervised? (while you are all asleep, when no one is home, when you have guests, etc.). If not she should have such a space. Laundry rooms are used by a lot of people. Or get a baby gate so she can be put into a hallway or something when you need to limit her ability to chew stuff/etc.</p>
<p>What happens when she barks at night? With my dog, she is in her “area” but out of her crate at night. If she barks – I get up and put her in the crate. Occasionally there is a good reason for the barking (noise outside, or an upset stomach on her part or something). But she got the message pretty quick that if she barked at night for no reason, she would be in her crate. Only had to do it a few times.</p>
<p>Jumping up – hard habit to break if she was allowed as a puppy. But very firmly pushing her down (and crating her if she keeps it up) are what I would do.</p>
<p>Pooping in the house – is she being taken out frequently enough? There are a lot of books and websites on house training, you might need to look into those.</p>
<p>Terrorizing the cats - do they have claws? If so, don’t worry about it. They will take care of themselves. If not – well, you owe it to the cats to protect them, since their natural defenses have been taken away.</p>
<p>Rolling in horse poop - dogs that are allowed to run outside unsupervised roll in s***. It is what they do. Take her out on the leash or a long lead. Or fence an area for her. If you let her run loose, she will roll in stuff, pretty much all dogs do given the opportunity.</p>
<p>You can hire a dog trainer to come to your house to help break her of the habits you don’t like. But in the end it is consistent, firm, loving behavior on the part of her humans that will teach her how to behave.</p>
<p>She’s still a puppy. On top of that, 6 months is when the “teenage years” hit. She’s going to be a pain in the asp for a little while. Probably the best thing you can do right now is attend an obedience, agility, trick class, etc. When dogs get destructive, they normally need a job, something to wear them out mentally and physically. My German Shepherd puppy was just like that at 6 months old. Even worse. She chased kids and nipped/bit at them (herding instinct), screamed like some demon possessed creature at every passing dog, and destroyed our nice furniture. I started taking her out to a Schutzhund club (competitive police dog sport) and it worked like a miracle. She was too exhausted to do anything but sleep. It was kind of fun too, I really got into dog showing, and now we win national championships. You don’t have to get that involved though, you can even just buy a trick book (101 dog tricks is a good one) and just work on those 10-15 minutes a day. That should help some. And if the golden retriever side kicks in and she likes retrieving, just get a chuck it! toy so you can just sling the ball across the yard from your porch. </p>
<p>For pooping the house, you need to keep her in a kennel, and just let her out ever 3-4 hours. Dogs won’t take a dump in a kennel because they don’t want to be stuck with it for hours. The kennel trains them to hold their bladder. In a few months, you’ll be able to fade the kennel altogether. Don’t punish when she does poop in the house, they’ll just start hiding and doing it someplace less visible. One day you’ll lift up your bed, and…</p>
<p>Terrorizing cats: Mine did the same thing, the cats took care of that though. </p>