Adolescent Schnauzer problems!

[missyB1]

So our mini schnauzer is 7 months now and her behaviour is changing - for the worse!
1.Shes demanding a lot more attention, in fact constant.

1. Starting to ignore recall whistle (I always give high value treats if she comes)
2. most worrying is she has started to growl if we make her move off the settee or into another room. Last night she refused to get off the settee and into her basket when we were going to bed, so DH lifted her and she growled at him. He gave her a very stern telling off!

Is this teenage troubles or something else? And whats the best approach? Please tell me it will get better!!

ooooh can I join please. 10 month old who spends most of his time trying to rip apart my sofa/shred my paperwork/jump on everyone/bark at every leaf that blows past the window. We've worked soooo hard on so much stuff but he's behaving like a pain in the arse 'I'll do what I want' teenager. We met a 12 week old pup today who was a perfectly behaved angel and showed us right up

Oh yes, Elevenswan, I remember taking my dogs out at that age and telling her 'please don't embarrass me today'

She's lovely now though and pretty much never embarrasses me, except when she barks at the dog that lives down the road. Only dog it happens with, I have no idea why, she just doesn't like him.

Haha pigs, that's a perfect description of trying to catch a small dog! Ours is generally quite good at coming back but bloody hell, he's fast when he objects to being caught! Never runs away, just zooms round in huge circles like a demented woolly sheepdog .
elevenswan welcome! You're in the right place!! Our poodle boy's latest passion is chewing the cushions and then growling when we try to take them away - he has to be tempted away from them with food or a tennis ball! He is also a pain in the arse and like you, we have looked enviously at younger and better-behaved puppies when we are out. If I had £1 for every time my daughter has muttered 'Oh my goodness, he's so embarrassing' under her breath since we got him, I'd be half-way to Australia!! His piece de resistance last week was greeting the local vicar very enthusiastically with wags and licks when we met him on the bus (he lives across the road from us and has a very lovely miniature pinscher) but then starting to hump his leg . Vicar was wearing very visible dog collar but fortunately just called poodle boy a trollop!