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[darkoshi]

I'm getting tempted to put him back out on the street where he came from. Or to not let him in the garage anymore and to leave him outside, no matter if it's cold or raining.

He keeps finding a new way to get out of the enclosure. Each time I make it so that he can't get out one way, he then finds another way. Today when I came home, he was sitting all angelic-like in the enclosure. I took him outside to relieve himself, then put him back in. After driving my car into the garage, I became suspicious. Sure enough, he had chewed through one of the cardboard pieces, and had made himself a hole thru which he could get in and out. He had even chewed completely through a round plastic-clad telephone cable with which I had used to tie down the cardboard! And he's been chewing on one of Bro's bags, breaking the zippers.

I get out of work relatively on time, but then have to spend my time cleaning up dogshit and urine. Not once has he shit on the fucking paper.

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[syrtia.livejournal.com]

You've GOT to crate him, its the only thing that works. I'm happy to loan you a crate, I'd be more than willing to show you how to manage the environment so that he doesn't drive you nuts. I'd take him, but there just is no room here.

If you absolutely can't keep him, give him to the Animal Protection Leauge. www.aplsc.org They are a no kill shelter, the Humane Society is NOT!

8 weeks of age through six months is the most impressionable period of a dog's life. If he isn't properly house broken and obedience trained NOW he may never be able to find a good home. If he goes to the shelter he will not get the training he so desperately needs.

Please consider hanging in there for awhile, I'll help.

[darkoshi]

"Plastic crates are molded two-piece units with ventilation areas along the sides and a welded steel wire door in front."

If that is what a crate is, then I have one already. It used to be a travel-cage for our cat. Then my mom used it for her dog, and she loaned it to me.

But how does keeping him in a small cage help things?

[(Anonymous)]

for the love of animals, we gotta love them! I have pet rats, even though I get cross for a moment because I found something with a hole in like my fav jacket. They do what rats do, like dogs do what dogs do. Both like to chew and poop of course.LOL though I have never owned a dog, though I have mucked out kennels before and cleaned puppy pens and yeah. It's us that need to be trained to train them I learn't.