Hello, I got my pitbull about 6 months ago and she’s amazing and I love her but she’s been extremely difficult to train. I am a first time dog owner so not gonna say I know what I’m doing but everything I’ve tried has failed so far. These are the biggest things that are really annoying.
-Bathroom in the house when she’s ignored, she’s potty trained and knows to go outside but if you ignore her for too long she gets anxious and will just go on the floor.
-bathroom at night, during the day she goes potty just fine and will walk with the leash, at night all she will do is walk a little bit and either start slowly sniffing and won’t move or will just stare at something and the distance and won’t move, everytime I try and pull the leash a little to get her to go she will just look at me for a sec and go back to either sniffing or staring. This turns every bathroom trip into a 15-20 minute thing when it’s dark.
-Leash pulling- she pulls the leash so hard on walks, it gets better on a no pull harness but still not a fun walk for me. Every time we start walking she will just sprint out as far and she can and get snapped back by the leash rinse and repeat. Don’t even get me started on when there’s a squirrel. I’ve tried the stop an wait for her to give the leash slack but she will quite literally stand there staring out with the leash fully extended not moving until I move, I waited 5 minutes one time and she didn’t move. I don’t get it.
-company over- every time I have company over she can’t stand being ignored. She gets 10x more obnoxious and will just harass the guest by jumping all over them and when they sit on the couch she just love attacks them, and it goes on all night and doesn’t stop.
-sprinting around, at night she will get random bursts of energy and will sprint as hard as she can and jump on furniture, harass the cat, scratch the floor etc.
-large objects- she was a rescue so we were told beforehand she had bad anxiety from her last situation. We are never mean to her and she knows that but every time I grab some time of large object for example a chair or a table she will follow me and bark at the object and get in my way and then when I start walking she gets all scared and acts like I’m gonna hit her. I get her being scared but I don’t get why she follows me around every time I grab something.
– attention- she’s the neediest dog ever, anytime I go to my room she follows, everywhere all day. I get pits are needy but is there anyway I can have a little time to myself without her needing to be on top of me 😂
-food- this is the worst. Every time there’s food out she will do whatever it takes to be a close as possible. I ignore her everytime and never give her scraps but this doesn’t stop her. She will keep trying to get in no matter what.
Overall she is amazing though, the sweetest dog I’ve ever met. I just want to get these things sorted out because it’s so stressful having to complete revolve my life around her, which I get I signed up for but I just want a little more balance 😂
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