Thanks for your replies. Believe me, I step up and try to show him I am the boss, but he is having none of it. He's constantly trying to hump my 7 year old daughter's leg, arm, back, you name it. He won't obey any commands unless he gets something out of it (I make him sit before I give him a toy or food). If I try to correct him, he jumps up at my face and barks at me, or rams the back of my legs with his nose. I look him straight in the eye when I'm correcting him and he still won't back down. If I turn my back or walk away from him when he's being naughty, he just keeps barking and jumping until something else catches his interest. I was using a spray bottle to give a little squirt in the face when he's misbehaving but now he's taken a liking to it, so that doesn't work anymore.
Don't get me wrong, he's also very loving, but even when he's being cuddly he still wants to be the top dog (he tries to sit on my head or shoulder if I'm sitting on the couch and he obsessively tries to groom me, especially my ears... ewww gross). It's gotten to the point where I don't let him on the couch anymore but it's a battle of him jumping up, me telling him "down", back and forth, back and forth. When I give him a hand signal for any command, he jumps up at me and nips my hand (not a bite, but more like a warning, it seems).
I don't understand how a 3.5 lb furball can be such a little terror! (sometimes, anyway) |