I would say Olivia is my most challenging dog. The thing is she is my smallest dog and my youngest dog. She’s some sort of Maltese mix. I know that her owner passed away when she was about a year old. She went to live with an acquaintance of mine for a year and that did not go well. Basically she said Olivia was a terrier. She tore up crates she was loud she jumped on things she screeched she was a terrier. She drove my friend so crazy that she paid $500 to a taxi cab to drive her to me for hours from her home just to get her out of her house. Within 24 hours of me agreeing to take her this dog was at my house. First Olivia was pretty easy. She was quiet a little shy she love to cuddle. Her fur is silky smooth she doesn’t require a lot of maintenance. She doesn’t shed I’m like this talking is amazing. I took her places we had a lot of fun together she’s my only dog that really plays with toys. And she can be so funny. Yeah that was the honeymoon. Quickly I all the behaviors that my friend had told me about. The jumping. The screeching, eating drywall, chewing up Internet cords, chewing up headphones, ripping up flooring. You name it and this dog has done it.
At one point I slept with her on a tether to me just to make sure she didn’t destroy anything while I was asleep. You might as well forget letting her sleep in a crate oh and when she was in a crate either she destroyed the crate or destroyed things around the crate one time she pulled my bedspread into her crate and tore it up. Yeah that dog. Anyway now I’ve got this problem where I cannot keep her contained and a crate she opens the latch or choose something or break something to get She kept jumping up on the side of the buggy, but everyone thought she was a little cute princess she got lots of compliments lots of pets and lots of attention. I’m assuming her bad behavior was due to her being excited. Also I don’t think her behavior was that terrible it was just a little much. But she went to Home Depot. We will definitely have to try it again to work on that behavior. She knows how to walk on a leash but today you would’ve thought she did not.
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