marykay48

I wanted another dog and bought this beautiful dobe and I just love him. This is suppose to be my husband dog tho.I have 2 yorkies and this time he said he wants a guy dog. Well I am home all day or most of the day and care for him. When hubby comes home he plays with him etec. Well last night hubby complained saying he doesnt listen to me. I said he 9 weeks 10 weeks today. He said he listnes to you.( not really) We took him for a walk and hubby was walking him and Zeus wanted to be by me hubby got mad and said here he your dog. What can I do? Hubby wants him to be his dog. I guess I understand but what can I do.

Kratty

He has to spend one on one time with him, quality time to start building a bond. He is very young right now, so he is just reacting to whom he sees more and who reacts with him more. Have hubby enroll him in a puppy kindergarten class and have him take him there. It will be fun for both of them.

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brumwolf

I can only reinforce what Kratty said,My middle girl Tia was all for mom as a puppy because i was at work most of the days but when i started to work her in the ring and O.B. she quickly became a Daddys girl and now with the agility work that she simply adores she doesn't want to know what Mom wants her to do,if the wife tells her to do something she will look to me for approval before doing it which i find very amusing much to the wife's dismay!!!

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JLC

I can't speak for dobes specifically...but when I was a teenager (about a hundred years ago)...we brought a rescued dog into our home. A shepherd/chow mix about two years old. She'd been abused all her life up til then and absoluted hated men. She wasn't aggressive with them, but would have NOTHING to do with any male...ever.

My Dad despaired of ever getting to be her friend....but he didn't give up hope completely. He started taking her for walks...just the two of them. It was hard at first because she was so distrustful...but she LOVED her walks. It took some patience and persistence on my Dad's part to get her even close enough to him to get a leash on her...but it wasn't too long before my Dad was her favorite person in the whole world. I really think those long walks just the two of them was what did the trick.

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Bizzy & Howie

I'm not trying to put the men down... it seems like them women here are much more into the walking & training aspects of the dogs. This seems to form a tighter bond than the poor hubbies who come home from work and play for a little while...

Luvbirds59

Petey adores his daddy to no end!!!!!! And hubby does nothing with him other then play. I think he was bonded to his breeder and transferred that to the first male in his life after we took him home. He loves me too...but goes nuts for hubby. He is a bit cautious around adult males(which is good, we hike alone every single day) loves all women and teenage boys....PARTY TIME! Even ones he never met before....tries to get them to play with him. My question...how does he know the difference between a man and a teen? He will woof at a strange man, but not a teen. Maybe he picks it up off of me?

oxc

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Jenny

In my house I am the one that does everything - shocking, I know - feeding, walking, letting out etc. . .Isabelle loves her daddy & was happily outside with him when I came home. She was suppose to go pee. As soon as she saw me the nub was wagging and she wanted in. I went out - hubby said she still hadn't peed yet. I told her to go pee and she did - I got a look. Then we came inside and he went to the tv & came into the office - she is laying behind my chair patiently waiting for to to cool off so we can walk...so the moral of my story is she loves me more

Julie W

I have never understood that mentality. A dog should belong to the entire family and expecting him to favor whichever person you want him to is just unrealistic. Especially when that person isn't the one that spends the majority of the time and training with them.

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dobesanddragons

I don't understand it either. Why not let the others in the household share in the joy of the puppy or dog? Why does it have to belong to only one person when the dog lives with a family? Seems unfair to the dog and to the family.

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Linda H

You get what you put into it. Why does he expect more from the puppy than he puts in?

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