[marty22877]

So before i go into my question I figure i might as well give some background on Luci. We adopted Luci about 7 months ago, september 2007, from the local spca. She came in as a stray, someone found her wondering the farms around lancaster, pa, so the spca didnt have any background info on her. She did however pass all of the temperament tests and was not aggressive what so ever. The only problem with her was she was jumpy and a little mouthy, but that's to be expected. So we brought her home and she fit right in. From the start though i know she was never in a house, had no idea what the tv was, was barking at the speakers and didnt understand what steps were the first time she saw them. She did however LOVE kids, the first day she was running around playing with our 5 year old and her cousins. She fit right in.

I had owned 2 dogs previously, black lab and american fox hound, while my gf had never owned a dog. So i took up most of the responsibilities. I house trained Luci in under a week, a first for me, and with a little trouble i got her crate trained From the start we enrolled her in a dog obedience class, she needed to be socialized as she was a little timid to new people and this was the first time i had owned a rottweiler. She did fine and picked up quick. She was leash trained in no time, walked right next to me with the help of a prong collar. I brought her to a local "doggie day care" as i was feeling bad leaving her in the crate, well she got denied. She got denied because she was timid and basically got freaked out when they brought her back to where all the dogs were. So the trainers told me some stuff and i started walking her 3-4xs a week for 30-60 minutes at the local park, where there were lots of other people and dogs. Her timidness was going away which was a good thing.

She was doing really good so we decided to start leaving her out for an hour here and an hour there so we could leave her out during the day and at night. This decision was made about 10 days ago. The first couple days she did so good we decided to let her out full time. She was pretty restless at night, sniffing around and just being restless, it would go away after about 30 minutes and we all could sleep. So after 2 days and 2 nights of being out all the time one night she was just being bad, so i decided to lock her out of our room. BAD IDEA. i woke up in the morning and she pee'd and poo'd over the night, she knew what she did was bad as she was sulking around. So right then staying out over night was nixed. The next day she stayed out good. Next night in, the next day out. For some reason i had a bad feeling all day. i come home and what do you know, bedlam she tore apart the large couch cushions, thank god right along the zipper line, and there was fiber fill EVERYWHERE. She also pee'd and poo'd right in the same spot as the other day. Well i freaked out, didnt hit her, yelled, cleaned up, brought her outside, then put her in the kennel as we were going out shopping. We came home, let her out and that was it, no more out of the kennel unless we were home for a while, basically we were starting at square one all over again. This happened on Friday. Well Saturday and sunday she was in the kennel when we werent home, sunday she was out all day, saturday maybe 4 hours. This morning, monday, i do my normal thing, bring her out, she goes pee, doesnt poo as some mornings she doesnt and sunday she was like a poo factory. So i leave for work, leaving her out like i do every morning so my gf and our 5 year old can put her away. It's like our 5 year old and the dog's time together alone. Well i get in my car and not even 2 minutes later my phone rings. It's my gf, the dog has poo'd, i'm really keeping my language clean, right in the same spot not even 2 minutes after i left. My gf was telling the dog no but she kept doing it. I turn around and high tail it home, walk in the door, dog goes running because she knows she did something bad. i yell, clean the dog waste up, finally get a hold of her, rub her nose where it was(even though i have never done this but i was extremely frustrated) put her in the kennel and off to work i go. so now i feel guilty. and want to nip this behavior in the bud before it gets any worse. Since i have house trained her 7 months ago these are the first times she has gone in the house. Only one other time before but that was because i gave her some olive oil in her food and she literally couldn't make it out the door fast enough.

I have also noticed in the past couple of weeks she's getting a little more daring. She has been "taunting" my girlfriend more then usual, jumping up on her when she's on the couch and basically taunting her. i'm guessing this is her testing her? it's never aggressive almost like playing but she doesnt do it to me. i have to step in and she stops right away. i also noticed she was up on the couch the other day, i let her do this, and i went to get her off and she semi snapped at me, i fixed it right off the bat and corrected her, got her off the couch and let her know i am the alpha dog in the house. well last night she did the same to my girlfriend, i stepped in and down she went. this is the first signs of any kind of aggression the dog has had. she is a very happy dog, always wagging her tail, giving kisses the whole nine. so my questions are, what the hell is going wrong? why is she going in the house now? how do i fix it? why is she taunting my girlfriend? and how do i fix it? i appreciate any advice, i love my dog and there isnt a chance in hell i'm giving her up, i just want to fix this behavior.