Have had NutterDog for just over 4 months now. In the past couple of weeks she has started getting quite naughty at stealing food, which she's never done before, but we'll just have to start putting it all away! The thing that is a little worrying is her snapping. 99% of the time she is fine, but occasionally she takes a dislike to someone and snaps at them. She's a Rottweiler so this is something I want to nip in the bud asap!
We've worked out that part of it seems to be to do with people touching her head or her back end, near her hips; I took her to the vet last week about that but she did it again the other day so I'm taking her back for another look. She seems fine apart from that - however, she displays some odd behaviour - eg upon meeting someone earlier (who is very experienced with dogs), she was fine, enjoyed a stroke, then lay down next to me. She later got up and went over to sit by the other person, who stroked her gently under the chin. Suddenly NutterDog decided she'd had enough and snapped at her without warning - no growl, no teeth bared, no tail up. She's done that a few times to various people and it's quite worrying, and I have no idea what causes it.... Any ideas??
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Coconutter · 03/12/2012 22:14
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