Snowman81
Active Member
Hello,
Well after quite a few months of having a (almost) model dog...after working through various issues such as recall....our dog has suddenly regressed and it seems almost out of the blue is being so naughty. All advice welcome.
In brief she is a collie terrier rescue dog, 2 and a half years old. She is fab in many ways, a really lovely bouncy but very soft temperment and very submissive with other dogs and we have never seen even one ounce of temper or agression ever (so in lots of ways she is the perfect dog). I walk her at least an hour and ahalf a day and we do flyball which she is really good at and loves.
Just this week she has started doing all sorts of things that she hasn't done since she was a puppy and it seems like she is doing it to get our attention, she has been climbing the dog gate at night to run around upstairs and then won't come back down (hiding under the beds and jumping all over playing catch). When we tell her off she hides under the sofa and won't come back out. In fact all of today she has been totally ignoring me calling her and she is usually really responsive and well behaved about the house. Just now she has been trying to jump on the sofa all of the time while I am sitting here and jumped straight on when we just got in from a walk ( a nice long walk - hour and a half with lots of doggy pottering time built in) and a ball game in the garden before that.)
Other things she has been doing - stealing things and running off with them, trying to sit on my sons bouncy chair. She also seems to be very very sensitive at the moment, I put her in her crate earlier today when the gas man called (otherwise she bounces all over and gets in the way) and normally this would be fine but today she was shaking and panting.
When she escaped upstairs we had to close her in the kitchen over night so we didn't get dive bombed but she just cried and cried and got in a right state.
It feels 50% missbeviour and 50% anxiety but I could be wrong.
The only things I can think is that she is having a delayed reaction to our baby (born in May) although she has been and still is fab with him and I include her in baby things like having her sit with us when I feed the baby (at a respectful distance) and praising her all of the time she shows gentle behaviour with him)...the only other thing is we were on holiday last week staying in a cottage which is a change.
In general she seems to be reacting in a more and more anxious way to things, she used to travel so well but now gets extremely anxious unless we have her crated by the window so she can see her surroundings.
Any ideas....sorry this has ended up being long!
Well after quite a few months of having a (almost) model dog...after working through various issues such as recall....our dog has suddenly regressed and it seems almost out of the blue is being so naughty. All advice welcome.
In brief she is a collie terrier rescue dog, 2 and a half years old. She is fab in many ways, a really lovely bouncy but very soft temperment and very submissive with other dogs and we have never seen even one ounce of temper or agression ever (so in lots of ways she is the perfect dog). I walk her at least an hour and ahalf a day and we do flyball which she is really good at and loves.
Just this week she has started doing all sorts of things that she hasn't done since she was a puppy and it seems like she is doing it to get our attention, she has been climbing the dog gate at night to run around upstairs and then won't come back down (hiding under the beds and jumping all over playing catch). When we tell her off she hides under the sofa and won't come back out. In fact all of today she has been totally ignoring me calling her and she is usually really responsive and well behaved about the house. Just now she has been trying to jump on the sofa all of the time while I am sitting here and jumped straight on when we just got in from a walk ( a nice long walk - hour and a half with lots of doggy pottering time built in) and a ball game in the garden before that.)
Other things she has been doing - stealing things and running off with them, trying to sit on my sons bouncy chair. She also seems to be very very sensitive at the moment, I put her in her crate earlier today when the gas man called (otherwise she bounces all over and gets in the way) and normally this would be fine but today she was shaking and panting.
When she escaped upstairs we had to close her in the kitchen over night so we didn't get dive bombed but she just cried and cried and got in a right state.
It feels 50% missbeviour and 50% anxiety but I could be wrong.
The only things I can think is that she is having a delayed reaction to our baby (born in May) although she has been and still is fab with him and I include her in baby things like having her sit with us when I feed the baby (at a respectful distance) and praising her all of the time she shows gentle behaviour with him)...the only other thing is we were on holiday last week staying in a cottage which is a change.
In general she seems to be reacting in a more and more anxious way to things, she used to travel so well but now gets extremely anxious unless we have her crated by the window so she can see her surroundings.
Any ideas....sorry this has ended up being long!
