I am very frustrated and even on the verge of tears at the moment. I love Bailey to death but I have 2 problems with her that are really bothering me.
1- She gets so wild and bites like crazy when she wants to play. If I try to pick her up she wiggles so bad she almost makes me drop her. On the floor she zooms back and worth so fast she bangs into furniture. And she goes crazy attacking me with her teeth, biting my skin, clothes, face, hair. And she bites hard! When she's on the couch she acts like she wants to jump off, which she kind of did once. And a second ago she got surprised and kind of somersaulted off the couch.
That's what got me on the verge of tears because I freaked out. She seems fine and as soon as I put her back on the couch she acted like she still wanted to jump. When she bites I tell her no, make sharp noises like claps, "AH AH", etc. She responds to nothing. I usually just put her in time out by taking her to the gated kitchen, which brings me to problem 2...
2- She won't be apart from me for a second. Even if I put her in the kitchen with gates and I'm right next door in the family room she cries, howls, works herself up so bad that she almost threw up once. She also just peed on the floor, which I think could have been on purpose since she's recently gone and has been doing very well with the pads. If she can't even be in another room than me while I'm home, how am I going to leave her for 8 hours when I work?
Anybody have suggestions??? Encouragement? Will she grow out of these things or is it gonna take as much work as it seems it will?