freedomdreams
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone!
I haven't posted very much as I have been extremely busy with general life things.
But it seems that I could really use everyones help as of right now. Kilo and Loki, my boyfriend and I's dogs are having some behaviour issues and honestly, as I've never owned a Husky prior to us getting them, I am running out of ways on how I know to change the behaviour... especially since we are not home when this happens.
To give you some backstory, Kilo and Loki are both Siblings, we got them at the same time and they are brothers from what we are aware. We got them as puppies, so they have not gone through several different owners- they are 7 months old (born last November). My boyfriend and myself, rent a house and we have 3 other roommates.
Generally when we leave, we have kennelled the dogs, I work 7-3, and my boyfriend works 10-8 (schedule varies). The dogs when left unsupervised are destructive. Unfortunately our roommates cannot/wont really help as far as it goes for the dogs-But they wont let us/dont want us to kennel the dogs when we leave for work as the dogs therefore become vocal and loud.
My boyfriend and myself recently took a week, live together break- if that makes any sense. I took Kilo with me, as he is really my dog. We both have observed that both dogs are fine when left unattended, alone and are not in any way destructive ( aside from jumping up onto counters......). When I was away from our living situation, I also took Kilo for 2 walks daily for an hour- which of course had helped obviously. But now that the dogs are together, we are in the same situation- they aren't generally as hyper as they were but we are out of options. Rehoming the dogs is not an option, but is there a way that any of you can think of that we can work on this- and have a happy medium for everyone? Not kennelling the dogs when we leave so they're not vocal, or?
I was considering maybe if we put a baby gate by our bedroom door, so that the door is open- and then maybe they would be less inclined to be as destructive?
Walking the dogs is not an issue- but it can be difficult for us to walk them at the same time, if we walk them separately when leaving the house- one dog is of course, extremely vocal. With us also working different schedules- it's hard to correlate a schedule with each other for walks. Mine is of course, an extremely set in stone schedule so it's not hard for me to do so, But it's hard for me to take Kilo for a walk in the morning if Loki is going to be vocal and wake everyone up vice versa...
I hope that together we can maybe come up with some sort of workable solution, yesterday I completely dog proofed the room and we came home to them having chewed up our bed... I'm sure they'll grow out of it when they're older but it'd be nice to have a way to change it a bit more sooner than that lol. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but both dogs are currently unfixed, although Kilo is getting fixed in the next couple weeks.
Edit: Just to also add, both dogs are absolutely fine when they are supervised.
Thanks in advance!
I haven't posted very much as I have been extremely busy with general life things.
But it seems that I could really use everyones help as of right now. Kilo and Loki, my boyfriend and I's dogs are having some behaviour issues and honestly, as I've never owned a Husky prior to us getting them, I am running out of ways on how I know to change the behaviour... especially since we are not home when this happens.
To give you some backstory, Kilo and Loki are both Siblings, we got them at the same time and they are brothers from what we are aware. We got them as puppies, so they have not gone through several different owners- they are 7 months old (born last November). My boyfriend and myself, rent a house and we have 3 other roommates.
Generally when we leave, we have kennelled the dogs, I work 7-3, and my boyfriend works 10-8 (schedule varies). The dogs when left unsupervised are destructive. Unfortunately our roommates cannot/wont really help as far as it goes for the dogs-But they wont let us/dont want us to kennel the dogs when we leave for work as the dogs therefore become vocal and loud.
My boyfriend and myself recently took a week, live together break- if that makes any sense. I took Kilo with me, as he is really my dog. We both have observed that both dogs are fine when left unattended, alone and are not in any way destructive ( aside from jumping up onto counters......). When I was away from our living situation, I also took Kilo for 2 walks daily for an hour- which of course had helped obviously. But now that the dogs are together, we are in the same situation- they aren't generally as hyper as they were but we are out of options. Rehoming the dogs is not an option, but is there a way that any of you can think of that we can work on this- and have a happy medium for everyone? Not kennelling the dogs when we leave so they're not vocal, or?
I was considering maybe if we put a baby gate by our bedroom door, so that the door is open- and then maybe they would be less inclined to be as destructive?
Walking the dogs is not an issue- but it can be difficult for us to walk them at the same time, if we walk them separately when leaving the house- one dog is of course, extremely vocal. With us also working different schedules- it's hard to correlate a schedule with each other for walks. Mine is of course, an extremely set in stone schedule so it's not hard for me to do so, But it's hard for me to take Kilo for a walk in the morning if Loki is going to be vocal and wake everyone up vice versa...
I hope that together we can maybe come up with some sort of workable solution, yesterday I completely dog proofed the room and we came home to them having chewed up our bed... I'm sure they'll grow out of it when they're older but it'd be nice to have a way to change it a bit more sooner than that lol. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but both dogs are currently unfixed, although Kilo is getting fixed in the next couple weeks.
Edit: Just to also add, both dogs are absolutely fine when they are supervised.
Thanks in advance!