my weim elle has started to go berserk when in the lounge she jumps all round the furniture and on my 4 year olds head while shes doing it i calm her down but she just starts again help

What does she eat?
What is her exercise regime?
What is her training regime?
How do you go about "calming her down"?

right she eats dry food
she goes out 3 times a day an hour each walk
she been trained and until a few weeks ago coould be trusted to go in to the lounge and lie quiet.

we calm her down by sitting her down or lying her down and talking to her for a whileuntil shes calm

If you are taking a 9 month old Weimaraner out for 3 hours a day I would suggest that is too much.

The growth plates for this breed do not fuse until 15 - 18 months old and so therefore I would suggest that she has considerably less exercise than this.  This may be one of the causes of her excitability.  I tend to adhere to the rule of 5 mins per day per month of exercise and would never give any of my Weims this much exercise until they were at least 18 months old.

You say dry food but not which brand; again, some foods contain additives etc which may exacerbate certain conditions.  I would be looking at Burns or JWB as an ideal diet.

Asking a 9 month old Weimaraner to lie down quietly unless it mentally fatigued is generally a waste of time and so it may be that she needs a great deal more mental stimulation with short (3 min) training games to exercise/tire her brain ie searching for toys, food, learning to do simple tricks etc.

I would not consider any dog of any breed to be "trained" at this age but in the process of ........ ;)

With your post on her barking it sounds as though she has learned to push your buttons and get your attention by inappropriate behaviour, you need to ignore what you do not like and reward what you do so that the behaviour you want is reinforced and more likely to happen and the attention seeking behaviour such as the leaping around and barking is unrewarding and therefore will diminish.

Dogs, like children like any attention, good or bad.

HTH

sorry i meant 2 walks one in the morning after te children go to school and one around 6pm on the night is that to much we live near the beach and she loves to go the morning is roughly and hour but very slowpace the later on just to the field

Even two hours per day is too much IMHO for a dog of this breed at this age.

If you are going at slow pace does this mean she is on a lead? :D  Cos no weimaraner I know is slow off it! :D

Again, an hour of lead walking is a lot at this age.

She would probably do better with 2 x 20 minutes of off lead exercise a day to run off her energy plus whatever she does in the garden/house plus 5 x 3 mins of training per day IMHO

yes shes slow off the lead she wont leave my side shes not fast lol

all young dogs go berserkas  at least once a day-its just letting off steam

Hi Ellex - I've come to this thread, because the other is getting all tied up with the "collar" situation ;)

1.     At 9 months old, she is just coming into teenage mode - hormones all over the place, and also trying to be top dog!

2.     You've been given excellent advice by Tohme about exercise/feed - and it would seem that the raw bone is keeping her interested - just cut down a bit on her other food, if she has more than a couple of bones a week, I would think.

3.     It might work if you tried a DAP diffuser - you can get the plug in ones - these release pheronomes (sp?) which do calm tense, nervy dogs quite a bit.    At 9 months, she is also going into the "tigers under the bed" fear stage - goodness knows why some go through this, and others don't, but they do - one of ours would almost frighten herself silly by her shadow!  She soon grew out of it though - she wasn't fussed, just a bit of "oh don't be so silly" reassurance.

Hope this is constructive help for you :)

Margot

Just thought - at 9 months old - has she had her first season??

Margot

no shes ot had her first season i havent noticed anyway

Well, she's coming up for one, which could affect her behaviour (just think PMT ;) )

Margot

I have an 11mth rottie and the way that has worked for me is by being calm around her .Dogs of this age can so easily be excited . We have 2 rotts and they are both VERY CALM AROUND MY 3 YR OLD .

Sorry if its been mentioned before..

(i got bored reading a certain thread).

You say she gets several hours exercise a day, and whilst obviuosly as tohme has poitned out at her age thats too much, how much MENTAL exercise does she get?

Its all very well saying ignore the dog, give the dog something else to do, ie a raw bone to chew on etc, but IF the dog really isnt being mentally exercised, its not going to help for long.

How much training do you do, what kind of training and for how long?

If this has been brought up before, then sorry.

Personally, with my young dog (and the older ones), im doing several five to ten minute training sessions a day, using clicker training, and training various different things depending on the dog (with the pup its leave, sit, wait, come, down, etc, with the older dogs its stuff lke put toysin a box, rubbish in a bin, shut the door).

Physical exercise is important and walks also give the dog a chance of a change of scenery (often why dogs walked the same route, day in, day out start to play up!), but mentally stretching y our dog is equally important.

Em

Never heard of dogs playing up if they walk the same route everyday   (in fact mine don't LOL - they know where they are going, where they have training and when it's the school walk who they are meeting ;)  )  But surely a walk to the beach in the morning with off lead time plus a walk in the fields in the evening (albeit a bit too long for each walk at this young age) is not too samey to get the dog bored.

Weimars can be a bit hyper if they don't have enough mental stimulation (as do most dogs) this along with the age she is at (teenage angst !) you can expect a bit of a bizarre personality change.  I'd cut the walks down to a more reasonable amount of time for her bone growth (see Tohme) plus include plenty of training in the house - simple things like getting her attention by calling her to you where ever you are, when she comes give her a treat and thn have a quick play with a toy that *only* you have, this will become the special toy that you can use when it's training time.  Getting her to sit and watch you whilst you do simple tasks that only take a few minutes and then gradually increasing the time she has to sit and watch, again plenty of praise when she does this, treat and a quick play time.  All this will be a case of two steps forward and one back but it will be worth it in the end.

Ellex, have you thought of clicker training?  This is a great way to train and also really makes the dog think, so it ends up tired mentally from working things out.  If you tell me which area you live in, I might be able to suggest a trainer in your area.  In addition, what food are you feeding? 

Abbie does clicker training. It really helps to calm her down if she is hyper. At 11 months she already will sit, come, stay and go down on command and is doing really well. If i see that she is misbehaveing or getting hyper, we go into the garden and do some clicker. She really enjoys it. I suggest getting a clicker book and clicker (like the above post just said) and try that way. After a while of training, when your dog hears the click he/she would probably stop, when they do say firmly "stop" and give her a treat, so she knows that when you say stop, instead of getting shouted at, she becomes alert and more attentive. (just a thought, it works with abbie but may not with other pups)

Oh and 2 hours a day of exersise is way to much. It will wear away on her growing bones and will increase the risk of hip and join problems when she is older.

*sorry i meant 11 weeks

You still haven't said what food she is on. The protein is very important at this stage as too high can lead to behaviour problems, also the exercise as Tohme says is way too much. You should try to do more brain work instead of lots of exercise. This will help to calm her down.