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We had the same problem with Pita and she is 12 weeks old now. We have never had to crate any of the dogs except Pita. I guess I've gotten lucky. But Pita would go outside go potty then within 5 minutes of her being in our bedroom (one of the only carpeted places in the house) she would pee. So we started locking her up in the kitchen. We put the baby gate up she has her bed and a couple toys. We tell her its bedtime and put her over the gate. The first couple nites she howled ALL nite, so I turned the TV on and told her to hush and go to sleep. Now I leave the TV on very softly and she has slept through the nite for the last 5 nites without any howling. I think maybe the sound of the TV lets her know shes not alone.

Well, things haven't been going so good with Pita. We have been working on her with the baby and the problems we were having there have gotten a little bit better however she has been showing a lot of aggression towards my husband and myself. A lot of the times it is when we are playing with the dogs. Brody loves to play with her stuffed toys and Pita is starting to play fetch too. Both dogs have their favorite toys and we throw them. They will only retrieve their favorite toy. The other nite my husband was playing with Brody, and Brody being the dane LOVES to wrestle. She will wait until my husband isn't paying attention when hes sitting on the floor watching TV and will go over and push him over then jump on top of him so Rob will flip her over and lay on her and rub her belly. Well Pita started to play so Rob got her toy and started to throw it for her...then went back to Brody well Pita came over and jumped on my husband and started growling and biting his neck and side of his face. It scared my husband and me and my husband grabbed Pita by the scruff of the neck and gave her a firm "no". That just made things worse. Pita lunged at him and bit his arm. We have had a pet behaviorist/trainer come to the house to work with Pita and she isn't having any luck. She said that overall Pita is a well trained dog. She thinks that maybe Pita had something wrong that was causing pain, or a chemical imbalance or something, and suggested we have her evaluated by the vet. We took Pita to the vet yesterday and they did a bunch of blood work, x-rays, and a scan of her brain. They didn't see anything out of the ordinary. I have talked to the behaviorist and she has told me that she would like to take Pita into her home. So I believe that in the best interest of Pita I am going to let the pet behaviorist take her home. I am scared that one of my kids will go to play with Pita and that she could do some serious damage. Am I giving up on her too easily? Am I doing the right thing? I am torn here.

about this - to add to the competition, we can all post how much we've saved by, say June 1st to see who has saved the most? No prize, just bragging rights...

That sounds like a LOT of fun. Lets do it

My husband and I have started a little competition. There are a couple of things that we would like to get for ourselves but both of what we want cost a LOT of money. So we set up "piggy" banks for ourselves. We each took a baby formula can for now. And covered it in white paper, my husband wants a big screen TV so he put a picture of a big screen on his can, and ever since I lost my male great dane I have wanted another male dane. SO I put a picture of a dane on my can. We have already divided up the change that was in the ash tray of our car, and out of our change jar in the house. Everytime we decide not to eat out we divide the money we would have spent eating out between the two cans. Its been a lot of fun. I don't work so I've been looking for various ways to make money to put in my jar, I've been selling some of my old baby stuff that I'm not using anymore, and i do a LOT of crafts so i've been selling some dog sweaters, and blankets etc. Its turned into a lot of fun trying to think of ways to save money, and we are actually eating healthy because we don't want to spend the money eating out. I'm having so much fun with it that I just had to share it.

I haven't been online for a while we went to Michigan for the holidays and everyone there has dial up so I didn't get online much. I wanted to post some recent pictures of my daughter. She is growing up so much. I'll post more of the pets later. talk to you all later Hope you all had a great holiday.

I am using a vinegar mixture in the spray bottle and it works on her when she is chewing on stuff that shes not suppose to be chewing on ex. the chair, shoes etc. But when it comes to her and the baby it just doesn't work. I am located in Tucson AZ. She is a very loving puppy and a LOT of fun, she gets along great with our other dogs however she is just plain mean to the baby. I never thought of her looking at Makaylee as her litter mate. What can I do about that. I would love to make this work but I'm kind of worried because I am adopting 2 boys 1yr and 3 yrs, and getting back into foster care where we will have 2 foster kids I'm not sure of the ages yet but most likely under the age of 4. So I don't want any of them to get hurt because of Pita's behavior.

Welcome...this site is a LOT of fun and VERY addicting. I have a 7 month old black dane her name is Brody. I also have a 2 1/2 yr old lab mix named Robin and a 9 week old mastiff mix named Pita. Here is a pic of my black dane.