Dog Health Questions: Dog training?

my sisters dog is a young boxer. every time shhe leaves the house, (even just to go to the mailbox or something) he goies and gets something he isn't supost to and chews it. he can opean the doors in her house because they have the handles u push down on and they have no locks. apparently he dosn't aim to please like a lab or retrever so getting mad at him dosn't work. what can she try?

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She needs to make her house dog-safe, make sure he is crated when she is out.

Negative training does not work very well. You do not want the dog to associate the "negative" with the owner, but instead with the item to be left alone.

My puppy now knows to not eat my cell phone, socks, etc. When he did, he had a negative (but harmless) experience with those items. The experience was handled in a way that did not involve me (at least not where he could tell).

Read the Dog Whisperer and Calming Dog Signals....great info. I suggest lot's of reading and research.

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• That is what crates were invented to prevent.


• young dogs chew almost anything
  your sister can put pepper spray on the door handles and the dog will leave them alone it will be unpleasant for him but will do no harm.


• It sounds like this young dog has what's commonly called "separation anxiety". I would suggest that your sister consider either reading up on positive reinforcement approaches to working with dogs with separation anxiety or actually getting a trainer in to show her how to retrain the dog to understand that her leaving is not as traumatic as the dog thinks.


• she should train it to hunt down my dvd!!!