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Heh... I know the feeling. My dog is psycho when we leave her home. She has figured out how to open the closet to raid my wife's shoes, last week she ate our wedding guest book and a rented xbox game. Weird thing is, I leave a full bowl of food for her and she won't touch her food until we get home. We walk in the door and she runs over and starts eating the food that I left her hours ago. I think she just thinks she's been abandon and freaks out!
He is a dog. He did what dogs do. You could opt for a cat. Then you can come home to find your furniture shredded and a cat running across the room, leaping in the air and swinging from your curtains.
Yeah....I had a cat who did that. Had her for 18 years. She was a handful....but really entertaining!
Yeah....I had a cat who did that. Had her for 18 years. She was a handful....but really entertaining!
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I got a Shiba Inu, the small cousin of your Akita. His name is also Shogun but he gets called buddy 95% of the time.
He has never touched a single thing of mine in 10yrs, doesn't chew anything at all. he is more like a cat actually and licks stuff.
I think your dog is having growing pains and needs lots of attention in the way of training and obedience. Akitas are generally very mellow unlike say a Siberian Husky. I had an Akita for a little while but she died young, she was a good dog though while I had her. Now the Husky, g*d f#cking d*mn that dog to hell! I will never own another one of them again unless I am going to take it out to pull a sled every day. I don't think she could help it though, even once trained she still rolled in s***, carcass and anything nasty. She would eat cat s*** if she could find it and then puke it up my car or my house. Even after getting her ass kicked by the porcupines 15x she still would get a face full of quills. Screw that dog!
Sorry about your books and your rug but I firmly believe it is not the dogs fault. He is playing games with you, a male Akita is one hell of a dominate dog that needs very firm experienced training. Good luck, I hope it gets better! Ten years from now you will probably forgot (mostly) about what he destroied.
He has never touched a single thing of mine in 10yrs, doesn't chew anything at all. he is more like a cat actually and licks stuff.
I think your dog is having growing pains and needs lots of attention in the way of training and obedience. Akitas are generally very mellow unlike say a Siberian Husky. I had an Akita for a little while but she died young, she was a good dog though while I had her. Now the Husky, g*d f#cking d*mn that dog to hell! I will never own another one of them again unless I am going to take it out to pull a sled every day. I don't think she could help it though, even once trained she still rolled in s***, carcass and anything nasty. She would eat cat s*** if she could find it and then puke it up my car or my house. Even after getting her ass kicked by the porcupines 15x she still would get a face full of quills. Screw that dog!
Sorry about your books and your rug but I firmly believe it is not the dogs fault. He is playing games with you, a male Akita is one hell of a dominate dog that needs very firm experienced training. Good luck, I hope it gets better! Ten years from now you will probably forgot (mostly) about what he destroied.
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humm, i had a siberian and he was great dog .... maybe i got lucky.
he was my wheeling buddy for 9 years before dying of a tumor.
i have a unique situation though, i work from the house so i am around the dogs day in and out. if i leave on to get parts or what ever they come with me.
now, i had an irish setter as a kid, talk about hyper!! i think dogs must have a fetish for ink, he made wet sawdust out of my thick bound volume text book. perfect dog for me back then since i was hyper so when we headed to the bush we both came back dead tired.
he was my wheeling buddy for 9 years before dying of a tumor.
i have a unique situation though, i work from the house so i am around the dogs day in and out. if i leave on to get parts or what ever they come with me.
now, i had an irish setter as a kid, talk about hyper!! i think dogs must have a fetish for ink, he made wet sawdust out of my thick bound volume text book. perfect dog for me back then since i was hyper so when we headed to the bush we both came back dead tired.
When I first got my two black labs, I would kennel them in the kitchen when I had to leave them home. I got back one day and my house was a disater. Things knocked over, shredded up, etc... I thought someone broke into my house. Both dogs were still in the kitchen though. Nothing was missing, so I just cleaned up and moved on. Next day, I get home and has I open the door, I see Wile E jumping the gate back into the kitchen like he was never out into the rest of the house. That expained the smart little bastid! And why the house looked like it was broken into.
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I have a lab/boxer/pit mix that has recently developed a habit of chewing books. This time last year he was into tupperware and would open cabinets & eat tupperware. He got a hard piece of plastic lodged in his stomach and had to have it removed. $1500 later and that jug-headed sonofabitch still gets into everything. He's opened brand new jars of salsa, partially eaten a 30 + year old fj40 manual, & my favorite waxed cloth filson cap. Wife says to crate him, but i cant do it. I just keep buying baby gates & keeping my fingers crossed....
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the crate really does work ...
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Not to say my Siberian Husky was a bad dog, she was trained well. She would do what I said and all that. But she would bolt off lead at times. She kind of stopped chewing stuff up after a few years. But she never got over the rolling in nasty stuff, eating nasty stuff or getting quills in her face. I also didn't trust her enough to leave her in the house alone long, she just couldn't help her self with the trash. She was my snowboarding partner for at least 5 winters. She loved nothing more then to just run and run and run and run. I got a picture of her in full stride, all legs in the air and more then 3ft off the ground. That dog could do 25mph for at least 10 miles. it was pretty amazing.
I guess I am just spoiled now with the Shiba. The little guy only pee'ed in the house once or twice, I didn't even have to potty train him. He has never crapped in the house. Like I say he has never chewed up anything, even his own toys. He has this road kill coyote that has been around for going on 6yrs. It has been all the way to Panama and back with us. It even disappear for 6 months while a neighbor dog hijacked it but it came back! Buddy doesn't care for it so much anymore though. He doesn't bark unless it is to warm me which is rare. He doesn't crap anywhere in the yard I ever see. He can be in the house, truck or whatever for many many hours and do nothing but hang out. He doesn't complain at all. He eats very little food. He won't take anything food wise from your hand, the floor or whatever unless he is told it is ok. He is also very picky about what he eats, meaning he won't just gobble down anything. He never gets in the trash and won't even look at it. Most of this I didn't even train him on he just is like this and from what I understand it is pretty normal for the breed. Also the best road tripping dog I have ever seen. Twelve hours on the road with only 2-3 stops is all he needs. He does hate guns and fireworks though which is my bad for not introducing him to them at an early age. He will take a finger off if he is in my truck and you try to stick your hand in it but I don't care about that. He really likes sleeping on the bed. He will hunt mice to no end all day long. He is not a lap dog but does like to be loved. After 10yrs I am just very sold on the breed. Very very good dogs. And at 10yrs old Buddy is still very active. He can still go all day long just like the young dogs. I would suggest a Shiba Inu to anyone. They simply are very good dogs which are also very easy to train. They are great with children and can be trained to hunt, hunting is what the Japanese used them for. He will fight with other dogs sometimes but as he gets older he does it less and less. Any ways, I am very sold on the breed and think Shiba's are the dog for me for as far as I can see into the future.
I guess I am just spoiled now with the Shiba. The little guy only pee'ed in the house once or twice, I didn't even have to potty train him. He has never crapped in the house. Like I say he has never chewed up anything, even his own toys. He has this road kill coyote that has been around for going on 6yrs. It has been all the way to Panama and back with us. It even disappear for 6 months while a neighbor dog hijacked it but it came back! Buddy doesn't care for it so much anymore though. He doesn't bark unless it is to warm me which is rare. He doesn't crap anywhere in the yard I ever see. He can be in the house, truck or whatever for many many hours and do nothing but hang out. He doesn't complain at all. He eats very little food. He won't take anything food wise from your hand, the floor or whatever unless he is told it is ok. He is also very picky about what he eats, meaning he won't just gobble down anything. He never gets in the trash and won't even look at it. Most of this I didn't even train him on he just is like this and from what I understand it is pretty normal for the breed. Also the best road tripping dog I have ever seen. Twelve hours on the road with only 2-3 stops is all he needs. He does hate guns and fireworks though which is my bad for not introducing him to them at an early age. He will take a finger off if he is in my truck and you try to stick your hand in it but I don't care about that. He really likes sleeping on the bed. He will hunt mice to no end all day long. He is not a lap dog but does like to be loved. After 10yrs I am just very sold on the breed. Very very good dogs. And at 10yrs old Buddy is still very active. He can still go all day long just like the young dogs. I would suggest a Shiba Inu to anyone. They simply are very good dogs which are also very easy to train. They are great with children and can be trained to hunt, hunting is what the Japanese used them for. He will fight with other dogs sometimes but as he gets older he does it less and less. Any ways, I am very sold on the breed and think Shiba's are the dog for me for as far as I can see into the future.
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i have had (or been around) male dogs for a long time and got my first female dog about 5 years back. the female seems SOOOO different than the males. she finds something stinky, she rolls in it then comes back all sorry looking. more active than the males. just a completely different dog.
my Siberian would lay in the yard with the gate open, half in and half out while i worked in the garage. then about 4 or 5 times a year he would get up and do a walk-about. in about 6 hours he would come home and lay in the gateway for months till the next yearning would come.
i have seen Siberians that you couldn't leave the gate open for a minute or they would be gone.
i would love a Mal-a-mutt, maybe my next one after Cruiser is gone will be one. Little Billie is a great dog but i really like a huge hairy mutt laying beside the bed.
my Siberian would lay in the yard with the gate open, half in and half out while i worked in the garage. then about 4 or 5 times a year he would get up and do a walk-about. in about 6 hours he would come home and lay in the gateway for months till the next yearning would come.
i have seen Siberians that you couldn't leave the gate open for a minute or they would be gone.
i would love a Mal-a-mutt, maybe my next one after Cruiser is gone will be one. Little Billie is a great dog but i really like a huge hairy mutt laying beside the bed.
my dog
My Lurcher destroys every new toy I buy him in minutes, most of my clothing is hairy, every couple of days I find myself cleaning the bottom of my boots again, he growls at my friends, the postman, neighbors, and milkman, and sometimes me until he realizes. Everything with fur or feathers is prey, he follows me everywhere I go, every step I take, and he has taken over my leather recliner. All in all he is a pretty good dog
My Lurcher destroys every new toy I buy him in minutes, most of my clothing is hairy, every couple of days I find myself cleaning the bottom of my boots again, he growls at my friends, the postman, neighbors, and milkman, and sometimes me until he realizes. Everything with fur or feathers is prey, he follows me everywhere I go, every step I take, and he has taken over my leather recliner. All in all he is a pretty good dog
Start the day with a LONG early morning walk or bike ride to tire him out. If you can manage more walks/runs/playtime during the day or evening, thats even better. Sounds like there is some separation anxiety going on. Is he left alone alot w/o much interaction? If so, he should be introduced to a doggie dayare place at least once a week, more if he has socialization issues.
Always be sure he knows his place in the pack, ie not allowed on furniture, eats his meals after you eat your, don't free-feed him, make sure he's always the last one thru the doorway, gate, etc. IF he was crated before w/o issues, I'd certainly resume crating. Make sure the crate is in an out-of-the way quiet corner, where he won't be antagonized by any other pets you might have. Make sure he knows its not a punishment. The only destruction our dog has done was TO his crates (photos). Our dog also busted out of his metal crates as well. Instead of risking having him hurt himself, we decided to leave him uncrated when alone and have had good results so far, for up to 4 - hours, with no destruction and no dead pet cats.
Always be sure he knows his place in the pack, ie not allowed on furniture, eats his meals after you eat your, don't free-feed him, make sure he's always the last one thru the doorway, gate, etc. IF he was crated before w/o issues, I'd certainly resume crating. Make sure the crate is in an out-of-the way quiet corner, where he won't be antagonized by any other pets you might have. Make sure he knows its not a punishment. The only destruction our dog has done was TO his crates (photos). Our dog also busted out of his metal crates as well. Instead of risking having him hurt himself, we decided to leave him uncrated when alone and have had good results so far, for up to 4 - hours, with no destruction and no dead pet cats.
