We are in our 3rd week of having our adopted 8 month old rescue Poodle. He has come a little ways in the 3 weeks, but not far. He no longer hides 24-7, he’ll come sit at the end of the sofa, he’ll come when you call him but stops far enough away that you cant pet him. A couple times Ive had to corner him, once for a flea bath, then to put the drops on him and once to clean his ears and he tried to snip at me, after it was over he seemed ok and “happy”. He runs around and wags his tail, and takes treats from our hand occasionally. Im overwhelmed by the fact that he NEVER lets us pet him, that he snips at us, and that he is still terrified of all humans except us, and any loud noise sends him running under the bed. He does interact with and play with our other little Poodle very well, but its sad he wont let us give him affection, and hes so cute you just want to snuggle with the lil guy. What can I do?

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Our dog is 6 months old. Very hyperactive and very dirty when it comes to toilet training. He picks a random spot and either pees there, poops there or both. He does this several times a day and recently, it is diahhrea and smells so revolting.

You can hardly even see the carpet in our house because there is so much newspaper on the floor to avoid stains etc. Recently, he is urinating on the walls and has made a stain on a section of the house. Not only that, he constantly eats our cats food and will go to all lengths to succeed. I am at the end of my tether and desperatley need advice!

We don’t shout at him. We just say “NO! NAUGHTY!” in a discliplinary voice when he has peed/pooped. What else is revolting is that he sometimes EATS his own crap, and even the cats!

Whenever he shows signs of wanting to do something, I take him into the garden. Most of the time, he does something outside. But just now, and earlier on today as well, we took him outside for a good 5 minutes and he did nothing. I brought him inside and he peed, straight away, on the floor. I took him back outside, he did nothing. He comes in, and poops upstairs!

I need help. I really really want to train this dog, but I am losing my insanity over this. He even peed on our brand new sofa which totally ****** me off. He’s a sweet little thing, but very dirty. I desperatley need advice, preferably from someone who has been through the same thing.

Thanks
I also forgot to mention

We have not had him from birth. We’ve had him 3 weeks. His previous owner was a druggy and kept him locked in a room where she TRAINED him to do his toiletry in the corner of the room. SO basically, I have the added challenge of plucking him from one habit and putting him into another.
When he does his business outside, we always praise him by patting him, making him feel good about himself etc. If he does bad, we don’t shout at him – we just say NO! in a harsh tone.

I would also like to ask: occasionally, he likes to bite people for no reason. I keep a squirty bottle near me and if he does this, I will say NO! and squirt air at him. Is this a viable method of making him stop biting people?