re: #186 MsJ

Your wife and my husband. He ruined our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and we are now, at 5 years of age, retraining here (only because I told him she had to go…the constant pottying in the house was to stop OR ELSE).

I took training for Joy. She is a hyper nutty Boston Terrier but she is so smart and well behaved and rarely potties in the house…like almost never. And she is a baby.

I could kill him for letting Olivia get to the point where I was giving an ultimatum. And that ultimatum was almost ME or fixing the dog.

Feel free to share that story with the Mrs. Lack of consistency will ruin your happiness.

She forgets what our Golden’s puppy months were like. He was a dream puppy for about 1-2 months (got him at 12 weeks, already crate-trained), then he hit adolescence - bitey, jumpy, humpy adolescence. She called me one day in tears, “I think we made a terrible mistake. Rhyo’s psychotic! He’s humping everything, he jumps up and bites - it’s like he’s POSSESSED!!!”

I told here that’s what they do. They all go through this stage, and it takes a firm, consistent, loving hand to make them into a good, adult dog. That ended up being me. I suspect it will be me again.