Hello everyone,
I would just like to say thanks in advance for any advice given as we are struggling here, we want our pup to be happy and the whole situation is starting to bring us down.
We have a 10 week old Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Shevy. We moved house recently to a house share with a large bedroom and it seems he has taken very badly to the move. We picked him up at 8 weeks then moved after 10 days. For the 10 days in our old house he was very well behaved, he bit us occasionally for the first day but quickly learnt that it wasn't acceptable so he stopped. However since we moved he has turned into Satan's own spawn, ignoring our presence for the majority of the time and when he does interact with us he is biting hard. He has turned viscous with his chewing and just generally is not well behaved. It also seems that he has no recognition of his name anymore, which he always used to respond to.
Here are the reasons that I believe could be factors in his turn of behavior:
1. The trauma of the move of itself.
2. We kept him in a pen for the first 2 days as we had bags and boxes in our room from the move, but the pen was massive and there was always one of us in there with him to keep him company. We knew this wasn't ideal but it was necessary as there was too many puppy unfriendly items and it would have been impossible to puppy pad the entire room.
3. There are 2 other dogs in the house which are pretty well behaved and are always friendly to our pup.
4. It has been hot recently?
We know that positive reinforcement is by far the best way to train a dog but its hard to do it because the only time he is behaving is when he is asleep to be perfectly honest. We also understand that a dog's behavior is a reflection of its owners training which is baffling us as we give him so much love and it feels it is washing straight over him, and our tactics of training him haven't really changed since he was a well behaved pup.
It will be another 2 weeks before his injections have kicked in and we can take him outside, which is shame because I am sure it would do him a world of good.
Please could someone give us some advice as we our at our wits end.
Thank you
I would just like to say thanks in advance for any advice given as we are struggling here, we want our pup to be happy and the whole situation is starting to bring us down.
We have a 10 week old Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Shevy. We moved house recently to a house share with a large bedroom and it seems he has taken very badly to the move. We picked him up at 8 weeks then moved after 10 days. For the 10 days in our old house he was very well behaved, he bit us occasionally for the first day but quickly learnt that it wasn't acceptable so he stopped. However since we moved he has turned into Satan's own spawn, ignoring our presence for the majority of the time and when he does interact with us he is biting hard. He has turned viscous with his chewing and just generally is not well behaved. It also seems that he has no recognition of his name anymore, which he always used to respond to.
Here are the reasons that I believe could be factors in his turn of behavior:
1. The trauma of the move of itself.
2. We kept him in a pen for the first 2 days as we had bags and boxes in our room from the move, but the pen was massive and there was always one of us in there with him to keep him company. We knew this wasn't ideal but it was necessary as there was too many puppy unfriendly items and it would have been impossible to puppy pad the entire room.
3. There are 2 other dogs in the house which are pretty well behaved and are always friendly to our pup.
4. It has been hot recently?
We know that positive reinforcement is by far the best way to train a dog but its hard to do it because the only time he is behaving is when he is asleep to be perfectly honest. We also understand that a dog's behavior is a reflection of its owners training which is baffling us as we give him so much love and it feels it is washing straight over him, and our tactics of training him haven't really changed since he was a well behaved pup.
It will be another 2 weeks before his injections have kicked in and we can take him outside, which is shame because I am sure it would do him a world of good.
Please could someone give us some advice as we our at our wits end.
Thank you
