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Originally Posted by kjc  I'm sure it will. Maybe she's having some stress? |
Maybe. She's always been a little OCD if you ask me, and even now tends to want to "discipline" the pups, even when they're playing with us (one was attacking my husbands pants and she went over and basically made her stop). I know she wasn't a great mommy to begin with, she did the basics but didn't go above and beyond, and now the pups are leaving.
Could it be jealousy? I know we spent a lot of time nursing pups, taking care of pups, cleaning up after pups and we spend time with the adults but, mostly as a group and the pups do get a lot of attention. Do you think dogs have the same mindset as children who act out for attention? Even though it's negative attention (ie me telling her no! And then mumbling about it afterwards) it's still attention that she's getting that isn't focused on pups. (I'm thinking back to when I was a child and I didn't do my homework because it was the only way my mom spoke to me. Granted she was yelling, but at least she acknowledged me).
I guess I'll try spending more one on one time with her and see if it improves, although before the pups came, it was her, Noah and Westley as a group. When she went into heat, she was singled out and got to spend more alone time with my husband and me and then when she was pregnant and towards the end of the pregnancy, it was just her and I all the time until pups came.