PLEASE HELP! I AM READY TO SHOOT MY DOG! Okay, not really, but I am very very frustrated with her. Back in August we dog-sat a lab for three weeks who whined pretty much non stop. You know the sound, the high pitched back of the throat keening noise, but Shelby throws in some moaning and groaning too. Ever since then she has picked up the whining and it has been progressively getting worse. She has been really sick over the last two months and that has exacerbated the problem to the point where she now whines all the time.
She has always done it in her crate, that's a thing I hate about her, but now she does it any any time that things aren't going *exactly* as she would like them to be. I can't even bear to walk her anymore without an iPod, because she thinks she needs to be offleash and whines the WHOLE GODDAMN TIME. I'm about at the end of my wits. I use a verbal correction with the whining, but that is just plain not working. She will either whine right through the verbal correction, or she will stop as I correct and then immediately resume again. I haven't leashed her and used a physical correction because if I physically corrected her every time she whined, she would be getting hundreds and hundreds of corrections a night and that just doesn't seem right.
HELP!!