Puppy Growling At Me!
Posted by lopezthegypsy on July 20, 2008
Hey guys.
So Puppy has been pretty good lately. She normally doesn’t require too much exercise or anything, and she recovered just fine from her spay.
But she still growls at me a lot. She is a very alpha-typical puppy. Now, that website I linked a while back helps with that some. But what I’ve found is that she needs to constantly be put in her place, just because of her peronality. Whenever she growls, I take her, put her on her back, and stand over her on all fours. If she keeps doing it, I pick her up and hold her upside down in the air. She doesn’t like that, and SQUIRMS! But let her squirm. Let her stay there until she relaxes. Then put her down. Puppy growls if I interrupt her playing or grab her in a way she doesn’t like. Well, after I’ve reprimanded her, I grab her that same way or interrupt her to see if she growls again. That way, if she doesn’t, I can praise her like crazy.
I learned that from that dogproblems site I linked, but also from just trial and error from the puppy. I’m finding more and more that it just takes a lot of this trial and error.
