I have a beautiful golden girl. She's 8 months old now. We've done puppy classes and are working toward our Bronze certificate for obedience so, basic "early doors" stuff.
Her stay/recall is good when there is no one else around to distract her, otherwise she just ignores me and is off after other dogs. We have a big problem with guarding. Not all the time and often over the daftest things. Today, she had found a strip of parcel tape and was prancing around the lounge with it sticking out of her muzzle like a long tongue. I went to remove it off her gently and she went for me. This also happened at the weekend. A fellow dog walker in our group put down a plastic bowl for water. My golden pup picked it up and when I told her to "drop and leave" she did so but...the guy reached down to pick it up and again and she went for him. Full-on teeth, snarl and scary "I'm going to rip your hand off" noise.
I'm getting very worried. She's so, so good. She IS only a baby but I don't trust her.
Our trainer gave me some exercises to do and she responds well but then, as I say, right out of the blue she'll have a real "go" about a piece of garden wire she's sourced.
She gets a good "free run" walk in a field in the mornings with other dogs and two pavement walks - one mid afternoon and one in the evening. Also, gets played with and bits of training in the day. She's comes in the car with me etc so, she's well "socialised" iykwim
Any help appreciated.
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Eliza22 · 25/01/2016 20:14
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