3mo old puppy won’t switch off - help
Hi there! So we’ve adopter our little Rhea at 2,5 months old from a farm breeding working border collies, she’s now 13 weeks old. We knew working bc tend to have a very high drive and ours is particularly energetic so we do loads of walks (2h a day), trainings and playtime sessions to fulfill her needs. But nothings seems to ever be close to being enough. After each walk or play time she’d destroy the flat, biting everything despite redirection, getting angry when we even try to redirect (growling at us!). When we try training sessions she only focuses for a 2-5mins and then gets angry. She doesn’t seem to be able to focus on her toys either, she just focuses on EVERYTHING all at once. We can see she’s tired and gets overwhelmed so we are doing crate training but she gets even angrier and bites the crate bars and gets mad at any toy we put in there. I’m starting to feel desperate, stuck between the guilt of putting her in bed while she doesn’t want to settle or having to deal with a monster biting anything she could and nipping our ankles/legs.
Would you have any advice to help us teach her to settle, or any mental exercises that could maybe help her feel less overwhelmed ?
(PS: she can be very sweet and cuddly when she’s finally settled but this never lasts)
Posted Aug 14, 2025, 12:26 AM UTC