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Oh dear....
The day that she arrived, shortly before I went to bed I put Jodie on her bed in one of the store rooms, locked the door between there and the kitchen, and off we both went to sleep: not a peep out of her until she heard Mike moving around the next morning, although she'd obviously had a little bit of a scrabble at the outside door.
Last night, on the other hand....
I put her on her bed, and she followed me back to the kitchen. I put her back on her bed with a chew, and she followed me back a bit before stopping to have a drink. I went upstairs and was just getting undressed when the thudding noises started, as she threw herself against the door. They stopped after a couple of minutes, just about for long enough for her to check out all the space she had access to for alternate escape routes, then she started scratching. Then thudding. Then scratching....
I didn't want to come downstairs and let her out again, even to tell her off, because it seems like that gives her the attention she's after (even if it's negative attention). She didn't sleep in her bed at all last night, presumably she stayed in front of the door.
While we could move her bed to the spot she likes to lie in in the kitchen, it'll be far more visible if she also trashes the door between the kitchen and the rest of the house.
(Neither of us wants her sleeping in our bedroom at night, and we're trying -- with quite a bit of success -- to teach her that she's not allowed upstairs at all. I can't imagine that working once we're asleep and she can plonk herself down where she likes.)
Help! Do we just keep putting her in the same place and ignoring her, or do we give up? I am genuinely a little concerned about how long the door will hold up if she goes at it as much as she went at the frame last night.
Last night, on the other hand....
I put her on her bed, and she followed me back to the kitchen. I put her back on her bed with a chew, and she followed me back a bit before stopping to have a drink. I went upstairs and was just getting undressed when the thudding noises started, as she threw herself against the door. They stopped after a couple of minutes, just about for long enough for her to check out all the space she had access to for alternate escape routes, then she started scratching. Then thudding. Then scratching....
I didn't want to come downstairs and let her out again, even to tell her off, because it seems like that gives her the attention she's after (even if it's negative attention). She didn't sleep in her bed at all last night, presumably she stayed in front of the door.
While we could move her bed to the spot she likes to lie in in the kitchen, it'll be far more visible if she also trashes the door between the kitchen and the rest of the house.
(Neither of us wants her sleeping in our bedroom at night, and we're trying -- with quite a bit of success -- to teach her that she's not allowed upstairs at all. I can't imagine that working once we're asleep and she can plonk herself down where she likes.)
Help! Do we just keep putting her in the same place and ignoring her, or do we give up? I am genuinely a little concerned about how long the door will hold up if she goes at it as much as she went at the frame last night.
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It's actually very likely that she'll learn this new habit, and be fine with it. And if she doesn't then you can try something else.
But dogs, like kids, learn new patterns relatively quickly, provided you're firm with them. The last thing you want to do is try one thing, and then change, and then change again.
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I've been leaving her in there on her own throughout the day, though, and she's maybe a bit better. Goes nuts when you let her out, though: I have to take her straight outside to run around!
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This is how my brother ended up with his kid sleeping in his bed most nights until the kid was seven. Because when the kid climbed in at 3am it was easier to put up with it than live with the crying fit. But if he'd actually put a stop to it it would have lasted three days of rubbish sleep, andoverall the cost would be lower.
I'm not convinced that you need to keep her in solitary confinement during the day - dogs can differentiate "daytime behaviour" from "sleeping behaviour". So long as she knows that that's where she sleeps you'll be fine, it'll just take a couple of days to get her used to that.
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