My dog is very bad. :] Options

[*Libertie*]

1. He chews pretty much everything in sight. The list keeps growing:
- Bluetooth headset ($80)
- ipod earbuds (2nd gen - luckily a friend had a spare)
- Apple remote ($30)
- charger for my cell phone ($20)
- Macbook power adapter ($80)
- my spare set of earbuds that I was using until I could get another pair of white ones (I ended up getting the spare ipod earbuds from my friend)
- my favorite pair of shoes ($40)
- power cord for my mom's mirror she has hanging in the kitchen (not replaceable )
..As you can see, this isn't cheap shit. I'm getting a little upset here.

2. THE DAMN DOG IS STILL NOT HOUSEBROKEN. I swear to god he pees just about everywhere he can, I'm constantly cleaning up after him. You let him outside, he's out there forEVER and then he comes back in and does his business on the floor again.

3. Okay I know this isn't his fault, but he sheds everywhere. I just vacuumed the rug but tomorrow it'll be covered in dog hair again.

Would it be too much to ask for my mom to just get rid of him? I just don't much care for dogs (except for one puppy who lives in Tulsa) and I don't have the patience to deal with him destroying everything I own. Also, before you tell me to put my stuff up, all I have is a desk to put my stuff on, I don't even have a room. I sleep on the couch. No matter where I put it, he climbs up and manages to destroy it somehow.

He's crate-trained. I bought him a crate at Wal-Mart, the sign said "Pet Shelters" which made me feel a lot better about buying a prison for my dog, but anyway. I'm the only person in the entire house that has the heart to make him stay in the crate while we're all out. Everyone else just lets him run around the house. This is getting frustrating.

[kimmytree]

Well, if you want to get rid of it, the longer you wait the less chance it has of finding another home. At least at the pound anyways. You buying him a dog crate probably just made things worse... it confuses them. They know its okay to go potty IN their crate, so they dont get why they cant outside of it.

If your kitchen has a main doorway, I would try setting up a baby gate. That way when someone's not able to keep an eye on it, or you're not home, he wont be able to get loose - but he still wont be locked up.

When my dog was a puppy, we bought a little plastic clicker thing... and every time she did something good (went potty, came when we told her to, etc), we would click it, say "good girl", and give her a small treat or piece of a hotdog. Doing that let her know when we were happy with her, and made her want to please us. But everytime she did something bad, like pee on the floor, we would tell her "no no". We wouldnt scream, but we would make sure she knew that we were angry at her. And whenever she would pee on the floor, we would put her face in it and tell her "no no". Not literally in it, but so she would smell and see what we were talking about. It didnt take us long at all to completely train her on our own.

Good luck!