KellyDienaar

Thank you for the quick reply! We have garden pink, echinacea, ornamental grass (she especially loves to eat this one) and 2 small cypress trees. We also grow some herbs such as rosemary, basil and thyme. We used to grow chives as well, but since I discovered she's not allowed to eat those, we removed them. Side note: We also have peace lillies inside the house, which she occasionally also takes a bite out of. She spends a lot of time on the terrace, as she has constant access to it. We always leave the window to the terrace open as this is her potty area. If we do close the window she's unable to signal to us she has to go outside to do her business and then does so inside the house. (Of course this will form a problem when winter arrives and the window will always be closed). Sometimes she also likes to go on the terrace to just lay in the sun. We also have a yard where we occasionally let her play but it doesn't adjoin to our house while the terrace does, so it was an easy choice to make the terrace her potty area so she can do her business whenever she has to. Our terrace is rather large, it's 15,5ft by 21ft.

Hey Adrienne! I'm new to the community, I have an 8-month old beagle called Nala. I've started the obedience 101 training and I'm also simultaneously trying to polish up her training, as she was already familiar with a couple of the mentioned tricks. Thankfully it's going relatively well, albeit slowly. I purchased your dog training course because our vet advised us to go to the dog school with her as he believed she was on her way to becoming a uncooperative dog. Although I found he may have been exagerating a bit, I didn't want to ignore his advice and went looking for dog schools. Unfortunately, dog schools are way too expensive for me so I chose an online course instead. She still struggles with nipping, jumping, pulling on the leash, etc. However, we found that her compulsive need to ruin our plants and flowers on our terrace is most prominent (and frustrating). We shout "no" everytime she goes to eat them or simply destroy them, which most of the time she completely ignores up until we get closer to her, when she finally stops. We thought she would've learned by now as we've been very cosistent with correcting her in this area. She just doesn't seem to learn. And it's not that she simply doesn't understand "no", because when we say no when she's nipping she does stop (mostly). Please help!