Hi all,
Thanks for everyones advice so far, my partner and myself had a tough week with little Oscar this week. He is now 17 weeks old and becoming ever so mischievous!
We take him out for 2 twenty minute walks everyday, but I'm not sure if this is enough as he has so much energy! First thing in the morning i take him to the garden to go to the toilet and then we get ready for a walk (which takes about 10 mins before we are out of the house, due to him biting and dragging his lead, or my socks, or my slipper, the list goes on)! He pulls quite a lot, we are tying the treat above his head whilst walking and he does this well, until there is another dog or person or loud car, bus, or anything with a smell that he seems to be attracted to! He seems to have a very short attention span. We take him to puppy class and the trainer says he is doing well, we just need to keep his attention, but how do we do this??!!
He also does not go to the toilet on a walk, despite using our phrase and taking him to grassy patches - if we do not take him to the toilet before we go for a walk, by the end he gets himself so worked up, barking and whimpering, its quite frustrating - any suggestions?
Also - once we have got back from our walks (and he has had a toilet before hand) he bundles back into the house, i take him to the garden and at 7am in the morning, he runs around the garden barking his head off, digging up the garden, biting the wooden fence panels like a little maniac! He won't come back in the house when i call him, he doesn't listen to anything i say - is this normal? It has become very frustrating this last week - any advice would be great!