I have a 4 month old puppy and I need help to get him to stop taking thing out of my and my son's rooms?

My god, did you do ANY research before getting a dog. You need to DISIPLINE him. And potty train him as well.

When you have a puppy, you are going to need to puppy-proof your home. No doubt about that. Puppies don't come with an inbuilt ability to know what things you value and are out of bounds, and what's okay. So you will need to be either shutting your bedroom doors, or moving everything out of reach, or putting baby gates up so he can't get to those rooms.

Secondly as always with a puppy, using a crate is a valuable aid. No puppy should be shut in a crate for hours during the waking day, but for the times you can't supervise what's going on, have other things to get done, use the crate. Set it up where you are during the daytime, cover the top and 3 sides and leave the door open. If you put a nice soft bed in there, he should take himself there for a nap, just as with any other dog bed. And once he's using it, provided you play with him and take him outside to empty first, when you have to do other things, then crate him, door shut, with some biscuits. If you have timed it right, he may complain a little, but should settle down for a nap.

If you have young children, then you have your work cut out - and this is why I didn't let puppies we bred go to homes with children of under 5 years. Puppies nip - puppies chase because it's FUN. Mum's busy and the whole scenario can get quickly out of control. Again get your puppy, and your child, into a routine - time for him, and a time for the puppy. When your son is running around, crate the puppy. And try to make your son understand that when he runs, the puppy will run after him. So don't run!!

At night, your puppy is going to be far better, and safer to be in his crate while you are sleeping. Right now you may still have to get up once to let him out as he may not yet be able to last right through the night. By 4 months he should soon be - my most recent buy in was 4 months, and although to begin with I did take him out during the night, giving him the benefit of the doubt, in fact he could hold right through from 10 30 pm until around 7 am.

Kids and puppies thrive in an organised schedule. So they know what you expect and hopefully they will respect that.

Add - Horrified - anybody who has to resort to yelling and hitting a dog, never mind a puppy, shouldn't HAVE a dog. To the person who suggested this.

shut the door or use a baby gate for now to keep him out of the rooms

at 4 months old, he is not going to just hold his bowel and bladder all nite.. it make take MONTHS before you can let him have run of the house at nite.

tell your son not to run when around the pup.. continue to work on teaching not to play bite.. and use toys when playing. The pup gets excited when your son runs and thinks its time for rough play.

good grief, the puppy is 4 months old. What do you expect. Perhaps you should train your son to close his door when he isn't in th room

its called discipline you're going to have to yell or maybe hit the dog cause that's how they understand they understand negative and positive only yes the show them what's right you'll get them to like a treat but if you if they do something wrong respond to that and your brain just like eventually like no it's between right and wrongjust giving Him a smack that how they would know