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I have a 10 month old pit puppy who has some separation anxiety. She howls and whines really bad when you leave her. She is in a crate 90 percent of the time, any tips? |
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Why would you leave her in a crate for that amount of time wtf. Crating is supposed to be at night or while they're still puppies. 10 months old is still puppy, but not really anymore. She should have free reign of the house. That's messed up. |
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Sounds like the dog just wants to be a part of the family and not in a crate... |
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Lucky Ranch said:
Why would you leave her in a crate for that amount of time wtf. Crating is supposed to be at night or while they're still puppies. 10 months old is still puppy, but not really anymore. She should have free reign of the house. That's messed up.
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I'm sorry, that is not what I meant, no she is NEVER in a crate when we are home just when we leave to make sure she doesn't get into something she is not uspposed to, unless we will be gone for like 10 minutes which is why I said 90 percent of the time. She also comes with us a lot of the time. |
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You could practice giving her a treat every time you leave the room and she stays quiet so then she learns she gets rewarded for staying quiet and eventually will stop whining altogether. You could also just try to leave her alone because she might just do it for attention and if you keep coming to her she gets what she wants and will just keep doing it. I breed dogs and a lot of people's dogs get separation anxiety. It seems to work most of the time. However, I have Aussie's not pitbulls |
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You could practice giving her a treat every time you leave the room and she stays quiet so then she learns she gets rewarded for staying quiet and eventually will stop whining altogether. You could also just try to leave her alone because she might just do it for attention and if you keep coming to her she gets what she wants and will just keep doing it. I breed dogs and a lot of people's dogs get separation anxiety. It seems to work most of the time. However, I have Aussie's not pitbulls |
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We usually just leave her, but she does it even with other people around and that can get annoying or in public, cars or rvs and I don't want other people to take matters into their own hands |
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It still sounds like she could be in her crate too much. How many hours per day is she in her crate? It could be you need to spend more time exercising, playing, and training. Or you could create a safe spot in the house where she can be enclosed, but not get into things while you are gone. |
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Usually less than once a week |
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