How I trained my Dachshund to stop leaving me gifts

I have had many dogs in my life however none of them compare to our Dachshunds. My wife had a male shorthair for six months before we met. It was the first time I was exposed to the breed. The first thing I noticed was how stubborn they are. Of course I realized later that it was me at first. Dachshunds are very loyal to their master. They will tend to latch on to one person and respond to that person above anyone else. The other problem was that I was a male coming into a house with three females. He was territorial. He did warm up to me once I started however he still would not do what I wanted him to do. When we got married and moved in together he really did not like it. His “mother” was paying too much attention to the other male in the house. To make matters worse my wife had been letting him sleep with her. He always wanted to get in the middle of us. So we decided to make him sleep on the floor. He did not care for that since to a Dachshund anything in the house is theirs and one day we went to get into bed and there he was on my wife’s side of the bed. He had left me a present on my side of the bed. He basically was telling me that this was his room and his bed and I was not welcome. Knowing that I could not let him get away with it we started confining him to his crate at night. This way he was still in the room and he was by my wife. This allowed him to be close to her and showed him that I was there to stay and since I put him in the crate at night I was the boss. He was not being punished. We made a big deal about him going into his crate, never yelled or talked sternly to him. Of course he wined at first trying to get out however we ignored it and he stopped. We eventually let him back on the bed, not that I was crazy about it, and he was fine. Still wanted to get close to my wife however he was happy to share with me. After that experience, being the researcher I am, I started looking up anything I could about Dachshunds. I also had a leg up on other people in that my daughter is a professional dog trainer. She has an Associate’s Degree in science in Canine Science. It was her idea to use the crate to train him. What people don’t realize is keeping a dog in a crate for a few hours a day on and off actually provides them security. Our dogs, yes we got another one, actually like going and lay down in their crate when they feel stressed.
I have the luxury of having a professional dog trainer for a daughter. She has helped us with many different things. Since I love to research things I was comparing book and online training methods and came across a dog training guide that provided many of the tips and techniques that my daughter gave me. It will work with any dog. If you would like to look at the website click on this link. Dog Training"