Getting a bit exasperated...Help!!!

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I have a 10 month old weimeraner, she's lovely very sweet, freindly and trainable.

Everyone said to me that they are mad and untrainable, but she's really calmed down since i got her (she is a rescue, i know the home that she came from and got her at 8 months). She wasn't at all house trained when i got her and she was really easy to train and was clean in 2 weeks, she does sit, stay, lay, off and is quite good at come but does get a bit over excited and sometimes it takes a few oments to sink in and come back, anyway my point is that she is trainable, BUT!!!!......

She steals, food, sunglasses, my boyfriend's mums £150 glasses, pens etc! She's not hungry, she's in great condition but is starting to get a little bit heavy for what i feel she should be at her age because of the stealing.

I tell her off, but in true wiemeraner form she is slightly upset for 10 seconds then just wags her tail and forgets about it all, so there isn't really any lesson learnt and no improvment. I'm not sure what to do as this is getting both dangerous to her, expensive to everyone and embarrassing breaking the news to everyone as to what she has chewed/eated.

The time she does it is before anyone gets up, so about 6am-7am i think, (i've been down at 5 before and then got up at 7/7.30 and the first time she's snuggled up asleep and the next at 7/7.30 when i get up she has eated stuff. Its not every morning either and she does sleep with another dog so she has company. She does kind of know that it is naught as she'll sit on her bed waging her tail if she's had something rather than rushing straight up to you to say hello (if she's not had anything then she gets a big hello)

All suggestions welcome, really want to get a grip on this before she's any older and hurts herself and/or we get chucked out!!! LOL!!!
 
Although I have never had a weimaraner (sorry - sp???) I did have a rescue greyhound and lurcher who were total thieves, and were really blatant about it

The only answer I found was to make sure they were only left in a room where there was nothing for them to steal. As they had the run of the conservatory and kitchen usually, this meant leaving nothing at all on work surfaces, window ledges etc.

Is there any way you could shut her somewhere where she can't get to things to steal them? Or maybe get her an indoor crate to be in overnight so she can't get to stuff?
 
She won't actually know what she is being reprimanded for... after the time has passed...even if you find her sorrounded by chewed goodies...she will react more to your body language than connect the reprimand to the chewing.
Agree with the above...I would crate her....this teaches them to get used to spending periods alone without access to chewable objects.....therefor they tend to not even bother once fully crate trained...as they never learned to get into the habit in the first place.
You can also choose what you give her to pass the boredom...which is why she is probably chewing in the first place...i.e kongs, long lasting chews.

She is still a baby and a rather active breed...so more likely to try and amuse herself during periods alone.
For now she is chewing small objects, a breed like this could potentially cause a heck of a alot of damage in a very small space of time.
In the long run...it will save the expensive objects and prevent her moving onto bigger and better things i.e, your doors, kitchen cabinets
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and save a very expensive foreign body removal operation.

Alternatively...you could just ake sure everything is out of reach
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Weimeraner's are very clever dogs - and need to be stimulated.

What do you do with her during the day - and how long in total is she left on her own for and in what scenarios?
 
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Weimeraner's are very clever dogs - and need to be stimulated.

What do you do with her during the day - and how long in total is she left on her own for and in what scenarios?

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She is out on the yard alot of the day or if someone is in the house and the weather is bad she'll be in, really she's allowed to go in or out whatever she wants, she runs around on the yard and garden and sleeps alot when indoors. She is so rarely on her own as she tends to be where ever we are, if we (me and other half ) have to both go out then she'll either be in the garden or house with people, but we always have someone (out of the four or us) here 24/7 because of the horses.

There was about a 5 min overlap between OH coming back and someone going out when she stole the food this morning.

The amount of excersise she gets seems to be quite irrelevant as 99% of the time when she pinches something its before anyone has got up.
 
Crate her at night or when you are going out?
We use the crate and our dogs will walk into it ans sleep, they love it!
Have you tried getting her something to chew like the bones you can get from butchers? My 3 are nackered after chomping on a bone.
 
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