Why does my beagle.....?

Question

Why does my beagle dog sleep with me and when my husband comes to bed she growls and snips at him and it is his dog? It islike she does not liked to be moved when she is sleeping with me. She will know when I am going to bed and beat me in the bed but will not growl or snip at me just my husband. Another question is how do I keep her from jumping up on us and visitors? We have tried tapping her toes with our feet and gently kneeing her in the chest and at both things telling her "down". Neither have seemed to work. She is a sweet dog and loved by everyone in our neighborhood but these things just irritate me to no end. I hope someone can help me. Never have owned a Beagle breed before.

My husband is the one who feeds her and plays in/outside with her and takes her out to go potty. He is the one who has taught her to sit, shake, lay down, roll and now doing crawl command. He spends alot fo time with her as he can not work due to back surgery so he does what he can with and for her.

Answer 1

I can't answer your question about your dog's sleeping habits. Maybe she is very protective of you. Regarding her jumping, I have had excellent results using with the following: rinse out an empty soda can and put a few coins in it. When your baby jumps up on someone, shake the can. The noise will startle her and redirect her attention. Be consistent. She will learn that when she jumps, an unpleasant noise will follow. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

for the growling in bed over your husband, you are the one to spend most of the time with the dog. if the dog growls it is to let you know that some one is there even if that some one is your husband.it is a sign of protecting you. as long as it does not bite l would not worry about it. but if you want, close the door so the dog can not go to your bed room and teach it to stay in the other room. and the jumping up on you and your visitors take a spray bottle and spray some water in it's face. but being a small dog people just let it jump up to rub the head which was a no no, because as the dog becomes bigger that is a bother. so that is why its jumping up. it got away with it so many times before. l hope l helped you. good luck

Answer 3

She is showing a display of dominance toward your husband and claiming you and the bed for herself. Honestly, you should stop having her sleep on the bed with you at night, since she is unclear about the pack order in your household. Try crate training her - she can sleep in her crate in your room - there are several websites that will tell you how to do this. She may be unhappy for the first few nights, but in the end, everybody will be better off.

As for jumping up, keep a leash by the front door and put it on her when visitors come. Make her sit and behave nicely and only reward her with petting and attention when she behaves. The same thing goes for jumping on you. Push her down, walk away and ignore her when she jumps up and only reward her with attention when would give her the "sit" command.

Sounds like your dog just needs some training to learn some manners. I'd recommend enrolling in an obedience class to work on these issues.

Answer 4

It sounds like even though your dog is your husbands she sees you as her owner,does your husband spend alot of time with your dog who feeds her,trains her walks her etc as these are all important to how a dog sees the pack heirachy.Your husband will have to spend time with your dog to rebuild the bond which means you taking a back seat for a while.Another solution is to stop letting your dog sleep in your bed get her her own bed downstairs in the kitchen or another room.Jumping up at visitors every time she does this ask the visitors politely if they will turn there backs on her or give them a tit bit and ask them to make your dog sit then they can reward,if this is done consistently then your dog will learn she has to sit to be greeted and rewarded.Good luck.

Answer 5

She is being rather territorial and protective of you and her space. What your husband needs to do is start re-establishing his alpha status. She views him beneath her treats him as such. He should start feeding her, and letting her eat on his command. He needs to work sit and down with her. He needs to start walking her and she should be walking at his side or even behind him. Alpha walks in front ONLY.

This will help establish the roles.

Also do not let her on the bed in the first place. When she runs to get on the bed tell her to get off. If she doesn't listen, take her off the bed as you repeat the command. You must follow through with all the command be consistant or it will be fruitless. If she jumps up after you have gotten in tell her off. She is NOT allowed on the bed unless you or your husband has asked her to get on the bed.

Now she's off keep her there. When your hubby gets into bed let him tell her to get on the bed if you want her there. If not, keep her off. If you have to make her leave the room so be it.

To have a happy home and dog follow these rules: 1. Training 2. Discipline 3. Exercise/Play

For the Jumping: Put a leash on her. Keep her in sit until THEY are ready to show her attention. She can ONLY get attention when she's in sit or down. When you walk in the house this goes for you too with or without the leash. Tell her to sit then pet her. If she stands stop petting and tell her to sit again. Do not yell, do not speak, do not do anything if she is misbehaving. You're only encouraging the behavior because she is receiving attention - positive or negative.

After a few rounds of this she will get the picture. I get nothing unless my bum is on the ground!

Good Luck

Answer 6

Pretty normal Beagle behavior. She is telling your husband that YOU belong to her. (it is not your husband that she feels dominant of) I would suggest having her sleep in a crate beside your bed for a while.
A Beagle jumping up on people is as natural to them as eating, and you will probably never completely stop it. The best way to get it under control is to teach the dog TO DO something (doesn't matter what) so that you can occupy the dog when it wants to jump up. I teach mine "place" and have them go sit on a small rug.

These are extremely well trained Beagles, and look what they are doing.
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Answer 7

The dogs probably snips at your husband because either 1) she doesn't see your husband as the "leader", the dog is more dominant. 2) She thinks she is owning you or protecting you. And with her jumping...tell her down and COMPLETELY ignore her and make sure NO ONE acknowledges the dog for at least 10 mins after coming in the house. No eye contact even.

Answer 8

As for the bed thing, she obviously thinks she is alpha over your hubby, but not you. This is something you need hubby to work on with her.

As for jumping, if you plan for any obedience training at all (which I would recommend to anyone with a dog), use the word "off" rather than "down" as down is for "lay down" and using it to indicate a dog to stay off from jumping can confuse the dog.

Our trainer suggested that we be sure not to pay attention to our pup when she jumped up. Even yelling or kneeing is a form of attention for most dogs, doesn't matter that it's supposed to be negative.

When our puppy jumped up, we simply stated "off" in a firm tone and turned our back on our puppy. The second she returned to all 4's, we would then turn around and pay attention to her. If she jumped up again, we repeated this process. It didn't take long for her to realize that jumping up on people did not get her the attention she desired and that staying on all 4's did.

The key to getting this down is to never allow a jump up to go unaddressed. Also, it is important that everyone who comes into contact with your dog, adheres to your training. Don't let someone say "oh, she's just happy to see me, it's okay." If they do, remind them that she will learn it's okay to do, and then may later do it to someone who doesn't appreciate it.

Even when someone comes to my home to do maintenance, I ask them to adhere and turn their back, and pay no attention until our pup returns to all 4's. It takes time, patience and persistence, but eventually your dog will see what gets attention and what does not.

This method has been very effective with our 7 month old Border Collie! I've used the knee thing in the past for a different dog, and it NEVER worked for her. She just jumped up again.

Answer 9

i have a dog with the same problem i think its just thwt your dog wants to sleep in peace mabey you could buy her a mice doggy bed and put it at the end of th e bed thats what we did and for our jumping dog we normally try to show dominance when he jups we flip him onto his back and gently hold his mouth shut