I’ve got massive puppy blues these days. My 5 month Spanish Waterdog barks CONSTANTLY. I live in an apartment (located in Europe) and the neighbors have filed formal complaints against her barking and I don’t know how it is going to escalate. We work with a dog trainer who has given me some tips to reduce overstimulation (we were going on too many walks, spending too much time outside, not enough naps). She has rejected the crate completely, will sleep in it with the door open, but as soon as I close the door she goes crazy. So I’ve recently started attaching her leash to my desk and this helps her to settle down and sleep next to me while I work. This has helped, but my little girl still barks too much…especially whenever I’m cooking, in the evenings, and whenever she hears someone in the stairwell.
On top of that I’m dealing with a burn out and raising a puppy during that is really fucking hard. Not to mention, I wanted to get a 1-2 year old rescue but my girlfriend insisted on a puppy because she’s never had a dog before and didn’t think she could accept a rescue. Well…we broke up yesterday partly because she has decided that she can’t accept a dog in her life after all.
One of my neighbors today asked me “how long is this going to last?” I don’t know, bitch…let me just ask my dog and see what she says 🙄 What my neighbors don’t seem to understand is how stressful it is for me…not just to be around the barking and trying to manage it, but also to be totally stressed about disrupting them.
I’m totally open to advice if someone has some about how you got barking under control or some reassurance that at some point it will get better.
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