Hi all,
Recently my dog has started living with me in my new rented apartment.
Originally as a young pup to adulthood she lived in this area. But my family moved away and I was temporarily homeless at the time so my dog lived with my mum in the country.
Anyway now I have a place that allows pets she's been with me since September 2013.
The problem is my place has no Garden and we're surrounded by concrete. My dog is incredibly fussy about going toilet on the concrete and demands grass 99% of the time.
This is a real pain in the arse for me. I will walk her around the block in the morning (when I KNOW she needs to go) and we will walk the whole circuit and she still hasn't gone and we're now back home.
What I've also noticed is she holds her urine when we do walk on grassy places and empties her bladder out in stages like she wants to mark 100 different spots. I know she has NO trouble in emptying everything at once because occasionally she will do this on concrete if she really needs to.
Anyway recently she's started acting even weirder. She pants a lot and shakes/trembles and always wants my attention.
When I'm on the PC like now she demands she sits curled up at my feet under the desk near all the cables which is really annoying / restrictive and dangerous.
When I tell her to go away to a new spot she just stares at me and disobeys me which results in me losing my temper because she's being defiant and I man handle her to move.
Today she left her dinner (meat which she normally scoffs) halfway through walked to the other side of the room and began watching me, panting and shaking.
As soon as I show her some attention or ask her whats wrong she comes to my feet again.
She's at my feet right now and this time I've just let her stay against what I want and she's quiet and calm, no more panting etc?
Can someone please help me because this kind of behaviour is not what I want and I'm finding her really irritating.
For some reason as well she's recently stopped chasing balls that I throw for her on fields.
She will do it twice and then stop. She's not injured in any way.
Recently my dog has started living with me in my new rented apartment.
Originally as a young pup to adulthood she lived in this area. But my family moved away and I was temporarily homeless at the time so my dog lived with my mum in the country.
Anyway now I have a place that allows pets she's been with me since September 2013.
The problem is my place has no Garden and we're surrounded by concrete. My dog is incredibly fussy about going toilet on the concrete and demands grass 99% of the time.
This is a real pain in the arse for me. I will walk her around the block in the morning (when I KNOW she needs to go) and we will walk the whole circuit and she still hasn't gone and we're now back home.
What I've also noticed is she holds her urine when we do walk on grassy places and empties her bladder out in stages like she wants to mark 100 different spots. I know she has NO trouble in emptying everything at once because occasionally she will do this on concrete if she really needs to.
Anyway recently she's started acting even weirder. She pants a lot and shakes/trembles and always wants my attention.
When I'm on the PC like now she demands she sits curled up at my feet under the desk near all the cables which is really annoying / restrictive and dangerous.
When I tell her to go away to a new spot she just stares at me and disobeys me which results in me losing my temper because she's being defiant and I man handle her to move.
Today she left her dinner (meat which she normally scoffs) halfway through walked to the other side of the room and began watching me, panting and shaking.
As soon as I show her some attention or ask her whats wrong she comes to my feet again.
She's at my feet right now and this time I've just let her stay against what I want and she's quiet and calm, no more panting etc?
Can someone please help me because this kind of behaviour is not what I want and I'm finding her really irritating.
For some reason as well she's recently stopped chasing balls that I throw for her on fields.
She will do it twice and then stop. She's not injured in any way.