Patches growled at me when I tried to get back in bed early this morning she spent the rest of the night in her crate. Seems like about every 6 months or so we have a problem was wondering if I should just take away her big bed privileges once & for all.She is back in the big bed tonight but will be going to her crate if I get growled at do not want her getting too bossy.Anyone else have this problem if so how do you deal with it.?Papbouv
could she be hurting somewhere, I know when Olivers hip is sore he does the grr, but not aggressively like its hurting mum and picking me up that way hurts.
Roberta
She acts fine just at the vets 2 weeks ago to get her teeth cleaned,eats fine,drinks fine,no problem s in the waste department,plays & wants to go on walks fine.Do not think she is hurting anywhere except maybe wanting to Hog the big bed for her self.Thanks for the idea.
Had the same problem with a Jack Russel. When he pulled this he was immediately kicked out of the bed, (actually the bedroom) for the entire night. He would be good again for about 4 months and then he would try again. I think every now and again a smart dog will try and shake up the pecking order. As long as you immediately let them know who the boss is, they will stay inline. I also think sometimes the older a dog gets, they can sometimes get a little crusty. They have their joint pains but it's so gradual you really don't notice.
The answer is obvious...when she growls, jump out of bed QUICK and offer her a plate of eggies! Then fluff her pillows and turn on the tv to animal planet, then go sleep on the couch until she barks for you in the moring. I have never growled at anyone (although now you give me ideas!) but I know that's what my Mom would do if I did.
love, Hallie
(Tell Patches she can pay me in milkbones later)
Papbouv I think you are doing the right thing, it's good it is happening so seldomly so what you are doing seems to be working.
LOL Hallie, Tristan loved your suggestion, he gets a little grumpy at night times once in a while too when he is staying at the doggy-minder lady's house (not when he is staying with the little girl doggy walker as she definitely would follow Hallie's suggestion LOL).
I read that book the Dog Whisperer a few years ago and started to do a couple of the things he suggested that are supposed to mark you out as pack leader. One of them is to pretend to eat some of your pupster's food before you put it down to them, as pack leader you would always eat before the other dogs, also you'd enter doorways before any other member of the pack (erm assuming packs lived in houses generally LOL). The other couple of things I remember were about when you come home and how you greet the dogs (ignore Patches for a few minutes then say hello rather than making a fuss of her right away) and not letting dogs onto the furniture (yeah like that's ever going to happen, but you could ignore Patches asking to get up and make her wait a little before YOU invite her).
I guess I am not sure if the dog whisperer ever met many dachshunds, he definitely didn't seem to have met many of their slaves, I mean owners. However, I did try some of the suggestions and a few of the tricky problems I was having with Holly resolved in a matter of days. One of these was trying to get the pair of them to go to bed in the utility room (and stay there without breaking down the door or barking - yes, or running out of the catflap into the garden to come to the bedroom window to cry pitifully LOL). Sigh.....it didn't stop her climbing trees though......or raiding shopping bags......or chasing cats........
Well, perhaps Hallie is right, and maybe buy another big bed for yourself?
Love
Gail, Tristan and Ivy the great
I do NILF dog training most of the time maybe I need to work on it harder with Patches she is 4 years old I will just keep up with what I'm doing I guess. Today we went on a 3 mile walk so everyone should sleep good tonight. Exercise seems to help with all doggy problems too,of course patches does get to ride some on the scooter but does trot beside the scooter too.
Uh oh I didn't think of Hallie negatively influencing some of you other doxies here with her suggestions...I will have to monitor her keyboard time more closely! Tristan wipe your mind clean of everything she said!! :meme:
Holly....climbed...trees????? (LOL!!)
The dog whisperer wouldn't like me much I'm afraid, I had a twin bed when I got my Dane Fred and we both didn't fit on it so I slept on the floor on a dog bed while Fred lay on the bed and I'd reach up and hold his paw...until we got a bigger bed about a year later. With the food stuff, I play a game with Hallie, when I fix her meals I will toss one kibble on the floor...then we both race to it, I always let her get it first and she trots off to the living room with it and spits it out, and looks at me. I come running saying "mama's gonna get it!" and she will look down at it and then back at me, then I swoop down and pretend like I am eating it, she will very gently and politely reach under my face and take it from me and eat it.
But again none of you doxies listen to me! Neither of them had any dominance issues and I had to convince Hallie for a long time before she'd come and take the kibble out from under me, that it is only a game and it was ok, if either of them had any issues I wouldn't have done this so I'm really not that stoopid lol.
Think DeeDee needs a video going on at her house interesting games she plays with Miss Halie, no sounds great you make her work a little for her food keeps her on her toes good for a dogs mental status.
If she growl only in bed then she's really trying to be bossy over you and you are in right track of showing her who should be the boss. If she do random growling at different place, then there should be something happening in her..
QuoteThink DeeDee needs a video going on at her house interesting games she plays with Miss Halie
Hmmm...we could do that, it would be fun to watch us on a special episode of Dog Whisperer..."How Not to Train Your Dog". LOL!
Hannah has a good point if it's only the bed she probably is'nt hurting or anything...you are nipping it in the bud that's good. Does she ever try to boss Buddy?
It is really funny sometimes I have a hard time keeping a straight face too Patches rarely gets ticked off at Buddy when she does she has growled at him before.He just looks at her and moves away. Once she really got mad launched herself at his throat he just turned his shoulder to her.I have always told him be nice to your little sister as a pup I really enforced that as much as possible just because of the size difference.Out in the back yard Buddy will get to running and I have to yell at him but Patches sometimes just lays down some how she knows and roll out of his way.Dobermans do not respect personal space will step on your feet not even realize it.