Please help me. I have a APBT that is just over a year old. She has proven impossible for me or my husband to train. I know she can be but honestly it is apparent we lack the skill and patience required. She is a good sweet girl and very loving, her name is Lillylou lol. I know its dorky
Anyway we have just messed up from the get go with her. She was tiny when we got her and she slept in our bed, still does. She isn't house trained, and just will not use the bathroom outside. She will sit when told but that is all we have been able to teach her.And worse she runs away. Anytime she can get out the door she is gone and it takes hours of chasing her to catch her. I am exhausted now as I spent 1 hour chasing her because a cat was on our porch, she managed to open the door and the chase was on. She just will not listen to us. She is submissive in ways but dominant in other, always trying to stand above our heads and things like that. She will bark at us if we tell her to go lay down and growl but not like she is going to attack, like it is a game to her almost. I am being bullied is what it feels like. I can get no dog training here, we live in another country my husband is military but a friend of mine told me about this site. Some of the other pups from this litter have similar issues but she is just completely out of our control, what can we do. We love her and want her but this cant continue, my kids have been late to school when she has gotten out and ive been late picking them up for the same reason. We have been fined by the Mps but chain of command helped us out of it. My neighbors hate us cuz she has tore threw their flower beds and the like while running around the neighborhood. I have read books, looked online but cant put into action with her what i have learned, she just wont listen to me or well anybody...please help me if you can.~Lisa