Re: [pyrnet] Help me please...

["Mitzi" <Mitzi@mitzis.net>]

Most all my big dogs do that, it's a dog thing :-) My littler dogs would do it, too, but they're not tall enough. I just make sure ALL food is put up and the trash is put away.
As far as defacating in the house.....it's been going on for 6 *months*? It's a habit now. It's almost got to be something the human members have done wrong in terms of housebreaking. Dogs 
don't do that out of spite.
I'd crate them and start over like they were puppies. Crate one of them close to the door. I guarrantee that if a burglar hears a deep Pyr bark on the other side of the door he's going to scoot. 
He won't know the dog is crated.
Mitzi Potter
Oklahoma

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:57:45 -0600, Ghost Rider wrote:

>To all...Anyone want some dogs?????
>    Bear (4) and Sugar Bear (3) have developed a very nasty habit...when we
>leave the house they will get on the counters, the table, the bread cart
>where ever, and eat whatever they can get their grubby little paws on!!!!!
>I've tried pushing the food to the back, hiding the food under things,
>putting it in my Tupperware, double checking to make sure the bread cart
>drawers are shut really well.  Nothing so far has seemed to deter them from
>doing it.  Not even giving them spankings or crating after the fact.
>    They've also been peeing and pooping in the floor when we leave!!!!!  I
>have no idea what's made them go mad but something has them really pissed
>and I'm ready to give up!!!  I will not tolerate such behavior in the house
>any longer.  This has been going on for about six months.  I'm at my wits
>end.  I do not have a fenced in yard to put them in.  I do, however, have
>crates, but crating them every time I leave defeats the purpose of having
>them to guard the house when we're out.
>    Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  I have no idea what we've
>all done that's made them go nuts.  I have no idea what I'm supposed to do
>to bring them back to their "right" frame of mind.  I just don't know.  I've
>told Todd and the girls that if they do it again they're gone!  They're
>going to  ruin my new dining room table getting on there to get the food
>that's in the middle.  (To the tune of $2,000.00! just for the stinking
>table.)  I've been lucky so far they've not dug their claws in!
>    Please help...thanks in advance!!!!