How to calm down a hyperactive teenage dog

“I have a German shepherd, 13 months old. I've had her for about 10 months and things that weren't a problem have become a problem.”source ↗

“She's stalled in her training and I don't know what to do anymore.”source ↗

“I'm at the end of my rope and honestly I'm starting to hate her.”source ↗

“In December, my cat started chasing her tail. Not aggressively at first, just sort of walking in circles (like a dog) chasing it - that quickly escalated to full attacking with damage.”source ↗

“No effect at all from anything except the bupomorphine, and that really was because she was just zonked - not because it helped.”source ↗

“We are at the point now where we are scheduling tail removal, but have been warned that this really isn’t a great solution because if it is neurological, the cat will just move on to biting the stump or back legs — but we want to at least try.”source ↗

“I dont know how to get him to calm down. I just want him to be happy and calm”source ↗

“If I stop he rips up cardboard or paper which I believe he does to get my attention.”source ↗

“Even after an hour of play he wants more.”source ↗

“My 8 month old puppy is driving me crazy. He's always doing something he's not supposed to. He's trying to chew the skirting boards off, he's ripping open his toys and swallowing the fabric, he's chewing my furniture, he can't have any bedding because he eats it.”source ↗

“I'm following him around constantly going no no no, I can't leave him unattended outside of his crate because he'll shred my couch.”source ↗

“I can't keep constantly occupying him or else correcting him it's making me insane”source ↗

“He is desperately in the throes of adolescence and I am slowly losing my mind and becoming more and more impatient.”source ↗

“The demand barking is INSANE and nothing we do is helping with that.”source ↗

“Sometimes it’s so overwhelming that I’ve convinced myself this is how he’s going to be forever.”source ↗

“If we have a walk that's mostly off lead, especially if it involves interaction with other dogs, she comes home and is able to settle in the house. If she's only off lead in the park and on-lead for the rest of the walk, she is mouthy and hard to calm down in the house.”source ↗

“The problem is I have to call her *constantly* to the point where I can see her becoming sick of me because she just wants to run and run and run and will go out of sight”source ↗

“It genuinely seems like the only thing that can make her happy is just to be allowed to run riot constantly”source ↗

“Now everything seems to have changed. She’s incredibly bitey, worse than before, we know she’s teething badly and we are giving her frozen toys and chew toys to help.”source ↗

“Her barking has gotten worse, she used to bark for a minute or two and then settle for a nap, now she can bark for 30 mins plus and doesn’t seem to want to settle at all.”source ↗

“She’s more chaotic on walks, trying to eat everything (paper, wrappers, general rubbish) and pulling in all directions.”source ↗

“She’s had 3 accidents in the house in the last two weeks - despite previously starting to be bell trained and letting us know when she needed out.”source ↗

“I am genuinely about to lose my mind - please tell me I'm not alone!”source ↗

“I think my guy has hit the teenage stage HARD. He's so much more vocal, has insane drive, has decided he cannot tolerate a singular sound in the garden or else he must bark at the source of it, HATES windows being opened HATES spray bottle sounds etc.”source ↗

“I feel like I'm failing him and I'm trying so hard. Every free minute of my day is spent researching on how to best help him.”source ↗

“i want a fix or management esp im a full time worker.”source ↗

“The main problem is when i let him out. Like i said above, those behaviours, once hes out of the crate, he will explode.”source ↗

“But he cant settle if im near lmao. He dont have separation anxiety but a really bad case of FOMO”source ↗

“The main problem is excitement barking. He gets VERY excited when certain people come over, when he sees dogs he knows, or when something exciting is happening.”source ↗

“Now I’m questioning whether I’ve trained him well enough, whether I’ve allowed him to become a “barky dog”, or whether I’ve missed some crucial developmental window.”source ↗

“a friend’s samoyed pup was the same at 9 months, still working through it after months of training”source ↗

“the issue i’ve been having is that when it comes to other dogs he starts going crazy, jumping, humping (which i know is a dominance thing he’s always done that), barking when the dog leaves and just being all in the other dogs face/space and trying to crawl across the dogs.”source ↗

“any tips for a girl who just wants to be able to go on walks and not feel exhausted mentally by the end of it?”source ↗

“Koda is my exactly one year old Labrador Retriever, working line. He literally is the sunshine of my life but lately adolescence has been coming strong at us.”source ↗

“He becomes very frustrated if he can't say hi to a dog when he is on leash.”source ↗

“Just still, I feel so bad. I am thinking I must have caused his behaviour "problems". There must be something I did wrong when he was younger that caused his social stress.”source ↗

“We both work from home and are struggling to get anything done during the day, apart from the 4 hours she sleeps.”source ↗

“She’s clearly bored and restless because she spends her time awake being naughty ie. Stealing stuff from the sides, biting me,,refusing to settle, chewing skirting boards.”source ↗

“She refuses to go in the crate unless she’s tired and barks endlessly.”source ↗

“I had my Labrador in a routine but slowly my partner has changed it and now we have a demanding 11 month 32kg puppy who now demands everything my partner changed and my partner doesn’t like how demanding our puppy is .”source ↗