Saturday, June 3, 2017

[Vent] [Help] Dog keeps jumping on the table.


Before you make any comments, I am a first time dog owner. I probably don't know that this is probably a very easy issue to solve.So a bit of background knowledge. My family has a golden retriever puppy, 19 weeks tomorrow. I love her to death but she's a bitch (figuratively and literally) to take care of. She follows commands when she wants to, but mostly follows them when they come from my mother.So my family goes to puppy training classes once a week and we learn stuff. Today was one of the days we went. When we got home at around 215 pm (UTC-4), my parents had to go look for a new washing machine, as the one we just got isn't working.So I haven't eaten all day today, so I fire up some Olive Garden from last night. When it's all done, I place it on the edge of the table, which is probably why I'm posting this. My little brother (13) and I (14) then open up my laptop to watch videos because brother. Next thing I know, I get a call from my mom. She needs the serial number for the washing machine. Now it's upstairs and it's at least a 10 second run down (8 seconds if you jump the stairs, though you'd break some bones).I tell my little brother to watch her because I know she'd eat my lunch, but he tags along anyway because brothers. 1 minute goes by. It's done, go back down, find her licking off the plate of my lunch. I'm fucking furious at this point. I practically throw her off and I was very close to hitting her. Killing her became a thought in my clouded mind. I keep telling my little brother "I TOLD YOU TO FUCKING STAY DOWN HERE".While I proceed to almost lock her in the crate, I devise the perfect punishment, no food for 3 days. You see, she was eating about 7/8 of a plate of spaghetti with asiago garlic alfredo sauce, at least 1100 calories and 1100 mg of sodium, plus the salt I already put on it.. She's already packing on pounds like a recovering anorexic (she's 30 lbs, going near 35 lbs), so that seems rational. Of course they're still gonna feed her because puppy.If your wondering why I acted like this, 1, she's done jumped on the table or counter to look for food 1000s of times and actually eaten it at least 20 times when we explicitly tell her over and over again and 2, I have anger issues. After some of my behavioral and mental issues were cured in the first 7-8 years of my life, I developed perfectionism and became a control freak, so everything needed to be perfect. All of that cleared up by the time I got into 5th grade but a critical aspect remained, albeit remaining relatively unseen until about a year ago, and it's been downhill ever since.Should I even punish her? If so, was my suggestion too harsh? What can I do to prevent this in the future? via /r/dogs http://ift.tt/2qSJnYz

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