Hello! Not only am I new here but my first post is asking for help.
We acquired a Doberman puppy. The situation was weird but it wasn’t a typical buy from a trusted breeder. And this isn’t our first dobie. We had one that we unexpectedly lost at the beginning of the year to seizures and brain damage at the age of 3.5 years.
This pup we have now, we were told he was 8 weeks old when we got him. However, we believe he may have been 6 weeks. We’ve had him for 2 weeks which NOW makes him 8 weeks.
Here’s the situation. HE’S SO STUBBORN!!! We have made NO headway on potty training, crate training, or any other command for that matter. We are experienced with training dogs, but we have NEVER had an experience like this. This puppy is relentlessly stubborn. I’m not kidding when I say we have made NO progress in 2 weeks. The last Doberman we had, we got at 4 months old so training was by far easier.
We are dog people and have trained many dogs and even dogs of our friends. I just don’t feel there is any training this dog. He pulls, he whines, he barks, he howls, he doesn’t stop moving (even after long play sessions to wear him out), and he just potties everywhere. He doesn’t sniff a spot out. He will just potty. If he is just sitting, looking around (which is rare) he is known to just potty in his sitting position which means he’s peeing all over his legs and sitting in his puddle.
Does anybody else experience this or know what the heck is going on? We kind of suspect mom and dad are brother and sister.
We acquired a Doberman puppy. The situation was weird but it wasn’t a typical buy from a trusted breeder. And this isn’t our first dobie. We had one that we unexpectedly lost at the beginning of the year to seizures and brain damage at the age of 3.5 years.
This pup we have now, we were told he was 8 weeks old when we got him. However, we believe he may have been 6 weeks. We’ve had him for 2 weeks which NOW makes him 8 weeks.
Here’s the situation. HE’S SO STUBBORN!!! We have made NO headway on potty training, crate training, or any other command for that matter. We are experienced with training dogs, but we have NEVER had an experience like this. This puppy is relentlessly stubborn. I’m not kidding when I say we have made NO progress in 2 weeks. The last Doberman we had, we got at 4 months old so training was by far easier.
We are dog people and have trained many dogs and even dogs of our friends. I just don’t feel there is any training this dog. He pulls, he whines, he barks, he howls, he doesn’t stop moving (even after long play sessions to wear him out), and he just potties everywhere. He doesn’t sniff a spot out. He will just potty. If he is just sitting, looking around (which is rare) he is known to just potty in his sitting position which means he’s peeing all over his legs and sitting in his puddle.
Does anybody else experience this or know what the heck is going on? We kind of suspect mom and dad are brother and sister.