| Thank-you for your advice. We are going to try back to puppy training and we will seek a vet's help. As for knowing he had done wrong, I guess this is one of those situations that you would have to witness first hand. When he had done something wrong, we will not know it, yet... We will see him slink, then we would look. There are times of course that he has not done anything wrong and he will greet us enthusiastically.He travels in the car fine, he loves it. It is when we enter the home or in the camper where he will whine non-stop. I can hear him when he is downstairs. When we tried the crate, none of us was able to sleep. My husband is respiratory and works nights so I cannot crate him during the day.As far as training this is continuous as I believe it is beneficial for both the dog and parent (owner). He is great with this. It is just that he will take advantage of any opening he can, if one of the kids forgets to put something on the furniture he will be on it,but quickly jumps off if he even hears any one coming. He will not dig/scratch at the carpet when you are in the room (he does this too "puff" it up to lay down). He is an angel when you are there,but we find it very difficult to do this 24/7,but back to puppy training I guess although we have done this twice and he will return back to behaviors. It is just too much for us to have to do this on a permanent level. My house looks terrible with items on top of all the couch's and recliners.We really do not want a perpetual puppy for the rest of his life,although we cannot just get rid of him either,unless possibly, I don't know if we came across someone who could deal with this,but it would be like giving one of your kids away and how an you do that,but how you you deal with a puppy for the rest of his life too.
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