Quote Originally Posted by Rapture
Maybe it is being kenneled too long? I couldn't imagine kenneling my dog for 8 hours during the day and 8 hours overnight... that's more than half the day...
Oh sorry I should have been more specific. Due to Mike's late evening hours and my early riser habits Gunnar is never in the kennel at night for more than about 4 hours. Neither of us work a standard 9 to 5 thing so mostly there is always someone home with Gunnar so she's never been kennelled day or night for any really long period of time. I think in some ways always having one of her humans around may be contributing to this constant need to be with us or demand we be with her.

The urination is a full on peeing not a dribbling thing. She only does this on items of furniture that Mike and I use so would carry our scent (our bed, our couch, Mike's favorite chair), never on our kids stuff. Can't quite figure out why she'd pee on our stuff and it's not all the time but it's very frustrating and a lot of work to scrub up after one of her incidents.

Excellent tips Jeff...just the sort of stuff we are looking for. Thanks! I will try that can trick, I've done it with stubborn cats but for some reason didn't think of it with the pup. We actually just had our Thanksgiving buffet and she was pretty well behaved. We kennelled her (she kept trying to get up at the food put out on the table) but left on the head collar and sort of draped her leash out of the bars. She actually was quite calm so I guess she thought she was still on the leash or something.

I think I read somewhere that keeping her on the leash and head collar even when "loose" in the house (loose but under leash control) should help her accept our leadership better so we are also going to concentrate on that and see if it helps somewhat. We are very determined to try and help Gunnar and get her through this stage. I'm just far more used to Labs and their need to please and easier training....maybe Boxers are just more bullheaded and opinionated LOL.