puppy behaviors at 1 year?

 Ena is 10 months old, LOL. She's almost as old as Zack! Emma is 5 years old, and she does all of that with us (I carry THREE frisbees, throwing two for the baby and one for Emma... because Emma brings hers back!). We're crazy active. That's probably caused by ME being super active. They're out with me, all the time, so they've gotten the endurance from being out. They don't get worn out. They just take it in stride, unless they're sick. If they DONT wanna keep going, I worry, LOL. The "hyper" will probably wear off in a year or so. She'll still be full of energy.

jenns

Walking doesn't really burn much of his energy

 

So you dont walk him? why do you think it does not?

Jamie just turned two a few weeks ago and she is just as puppy-ish as she was as a 7th month old. The only difference is that she's put on 30 lbs of solid muscle (she's about 60 lbs now), so she's incredibly hard to entertain in the house...problem is that she doesn't know that anything is changed from when she was a pup. A six foot fence is merely a small obstacle to freedom in her mind, what are cats for if not for chasing, and she knows how to open doors, so containing her is no easy task either. Nothing is safe in the house - she is obsessed with lights of any kind as well as the cats, will counter-surf if given the opportunity (and by opportunity I mean if you stop watching her for .5 seconds), and with Belgian Malinois jaws, she is more than capable of destroying anything she happens to get her mouth on in less than a minute. She is incredibly protective and would bark her head off at any person, animal, or leaf that crosses our path while on a walk. Nothing wears her out for more than a couple of minutes and there are times that she ends up tethered to door with a kong for a 15 minute "timeout" because I simply cannot deal with her. She is a very difficult dog to take out in public because she arouses so easily, so quickly, and to such a high level.

Now that being said, the only way to get her over her issues has been to...you guessed it - get her out more! I bundle up, put on her prong collar, GL, or easy walk, grab a pocketful of treats and a 6ft leash, then hit the road. If she stays focused on me, she gets treats and we keep walking. The moment she loses focus, be it by barking, pulling, etc., we start doing obedience. Formal heels, sit-stays, down-stays, sit-down-sit "push-ups", 360 degree stays, sudden changes in direction. Lots of treats and praise, but with focus, and after awhile, it starts to take the edge off. She is a hard, high-drive dog and I know that if I don't correct these behaviors now, they will escalate. I don't expect her to calm down until she is 7 or 8 yrs - it is the nature of her breed - and with a terrier, you shouldn't either! Work out his issues now and manage his environment the best you can so that when he does hit mental maturity (probably around 2-3 yrs of age), you will have a well behaved canine citizen rather than a less hyper but ill-behaved adult.

espencer

jenns

Walking doesn't really burn much of his energy

 

So you dont walk him? why do you think it does not?

 

Walks don't really burn up much energy unless they are very long walks, or incorporate a faster pace for some of the jaunt.  Energetic dogs need aerobic activity in order to settle down, and that means things like jogging, fetch, frisbee, agility, etc.  The Buster Cube, or other interactive toys, and some daily training will add a "mental activity" component that can be just as tiring as physical activity.  With tiny dogs, I would reserve part of their daily food ration to be used as training treats, and make sure to have a session or two each day in addition to the exercise.  A tired dog is a good dog.

As usual, I agree 110% with Anne.  I can't tire my crew out with walking.  I could walk my beasts all day and half the night and the only one tired would be ME!  I do some good fetch games, or now that there is snow, find games, in the unfenced yard, two long walks a day, and interactive toys in the house, such as it is.  There is NO room for playing inside.  There is barely room for walking with the six of them all spread out.

And, I did solve the issue of the chewed slippers.  When Tyler goes back to bed after the crates come down for the night, he'd been getting a stuffy.  Tyler has always really protected his stuffies, but suddenly he started destroying them, so I stopped giving them to him.  Then the slipper eating started.  Took me a bit of thinking to find the cause and effect, but since I've started giving him back the pieces of his stuffies, no more eaten shoes or slippers.  In HIS case, exercise wasn't the cure, but rather returning to him what he thought of as his evening ritual.

 I agree about the walking.  Walking doesn't tire Ari out, but that doesn't mean it should be done - at least it gives her a chance to stretch her legs :)  Some dogs stay puppy like for a very long time.  I don't expect Ari to settle any until she's 2 + years old and even then her breed is known for lifelong puppy-like mentality/energy.  She gets multiple daily walks during the week.  On the weekends I make a point for longer walks.  When she's older we'll condition her to hiking up mountains with us! 

Training is tiring too in it's own way!  Fetch, tug, if possible off leash romping is great.  Also if possible I find Ari is wiped out after a play session with another dog.  Nothing we've found thus far tuckers her out better than playing with another pup.   

 Oh, I don't think anyone meant that you shouldn't walk your dogs.  Getting out and about is good for the psyche.  It just doesn't tire an active dog out the way aerobic exercise does.  And I soooooo agree with the notion that playing with other dogs tires them out faster than anything.  It's one reason we do our "Yappy Hours" at my training center.  And, we do a fifteen minute play time before each class, even the therapy dog class!

spiritdogs

Walks don't really burn up much energy unless they are very long walks

 

Well, if i take my Alaskan Malamute out to walk for only 20 minutes then i wont expect him to come back home to sleep 8 hrs. If the OP would say that only takes the dog out to walk for 10 minutes then for sure you can expect me to respond that will not work whatsoever.

I walk my dog for an hour with a back pack on and he is ready to relax the rest of the day, my father in law walked him today for 45 minutes without a back pack and letting him sniff all that he wanted and he is ready to go for another 3 hours.

Excited walk = not too much energy burned

Calm walk focusing on exercising ="mental activity"= tired dog

I think the OP manchester terrier would benefit from a 45 minutes walk everyday and he would not need a back pack to be tired at the end

 

Not all of us really want to spend our walks with our dogs issueing commands.  I surely don't.  The walks are FOR the dogs, not for me to exercise my dominance.  I don't demand a heel the entire walk, sometimes not at all. And heck, once they've gone potty, I don't care what they do so long as they don't bother anyone, anything, or put themselves in an unsafe situation, and they KNOW what is and isn't allowed.  When I can take the guys off lead out in the woods, they tire themselves out, or when they get a chance to play together in the yard, or with a good game of fetch.  Theo doesn't fetch.  He wants nothing to do with picking up the ball, BUT, he chases after everyone else when THEY fetch, so there is something that every dog can do that is FUN, but still wears him out.

glenmar

Not all of us really want to spend our walks with our dogs issueing commands.  I surely don't.

 

Who suggested that?  I'm confused...

Walks are a great way for dogs to let their hair down.  But I don't see why a dog can't have BOTH kind of walks.  Like, sometimes I go to the swimming pool and just splash about (usually when I have Will with me) and sometimes I go and do 40 timed lengths.  ::shrugs::

Maybe the latter is more tiring and maybe a tired dog is a good dog.  But there is more than one way to skin a cat, and there is more than one way to tire a dog.  There is also more than one reason for walking a dog, by the seems of it.... 

Haven't we been hre before? 

glenmar

The walks are FOR the dogs, not for me to exercise my dominance.

 

Believe me, i'm too lazy to exercise dominance one whole hour in a row every day, if i want to exercise i go to the gym, if i want to exercise my dog i take him for a walk = walks are for HIM, my dog is not going to be less of a dog because he didnt smell every tree he wanted or smell the ground as much as he wishes. This allow me to only walk him for an hour and satisfy his need of exercise without having to walk the entire day and half of the night. When we come home we can play fetch

glenmar

When I can take the guys off lead out in the woods, they tire themselves out

glenmar

I can't tire my crew out with walking.  I could walk my beasts all day and half the night and the only one tired would be ME!

 

Ok, which one is it?

Chuffy

glenmar

Not all of us really want to spend our walks with our dogs issueing commands.  I surely don't.

 

Who suggested that?

Thank you

 

 

 

Both are true.  An ON LEAD walk does nothing to tire my dogs unless it is a working walk where we focus on heeling and running off lead in the woods DOES tire them out.  Primariy ecause they go a certain distance from me, turn around to make sure I'm still there, and come running back before they go bounding off again.  As far as manners on a walk, that doesn't tire them either.  It's automatic.  Mom stops, we sit.  Come near a street that we're gonna cross, we sit.  People approach with a dog, we cross the street, after sitting and waiting for my ok to proceed, people approach without a dog, we sit and let them pass. The lead gets slightly tight...oppps, we need to back off, slow down and wait for Mom.  These are default behaviors that don't require any mental excertion from the dogs, so they don't get a mental workout doing an on lead walk.

Sorry that wasn't clearer.

And yes, we have been here before.  Gets rather tiring doesn't it?

Zack gets two 20 minute walks a day.  He used to get more when the weather was warmer including hikes and long walks in the park.  I say it didn't tire him out because he would come home and snooze for about 20 minutes and then would be up again ready for action.  My walking is limited with him now because of the cold weather and he is very sensitive to the cold.  I am trying to condition him to wearing sweaters and jackets but he hates the feeling of them on and won't walk or do his business while wearing them.  He doesn't have a thick natural coat like other breeds.  He might as well be hairless. Besides, the only activity I've seen that really tires him out is playtime with Zoe.  All that running, jumping, leaping and wrestling will wear him out for hours.  Too bad Zoe doesn't want to play as often as he does.

 I signed him up for basic obedience class starting Dec. 10.   I find it a lot harder to train obedience now that I have 2 dogs. When it was just Zoe I could spontaneously work on a few commands throughout the day, but now it has to be planned because the other dog has to be crated.  I just need to be better about that.

I do think that you will the find classes very helpful. 

If you start slowly you can work on training both at the same time.  On bad days I often wrok with all six in this not so huge RV.  Part of the "tiring" part of this is having to sit and patiently WAIT until I give that specific dog a command.  And bouncing butts don't count.  If butts start to bounce, we start all over again, so whoever isn't patient has to wait either longer.  It's harder, but it can work.

cheer up he sounds like a typical adolescent. He clearly needs more to do, and lots more exercise; two twenty-minute walks is well, nothing. You'd be better off spending the time training agility/obedience/tricks at home or fetch games or something more active both mentally and physically. Any doggy day care facilities near you? he could go play with other dogs two or three days a week.