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06-19-2013, 12:50 PM | #1 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dallas, Texas
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| What's up with Kayla????? Kayla turned 6 the 10th of this month. Seems like she is going through mood swings.... I could not sleep the other night and when I did go to bed, she tried to nip me on the hand and not let me in bed. She has slept with us since she was a baby. She was laying on my pillow and it was like she was saying, This is my daddy, go sleep somewhere else. Can you believe. Dh said I just scared her. Yeah, right!!! Thats why now she has done it twice. |
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06-19-2013, 01:00 PM | #2 |
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| One question: Was she sound asleep right before it happened? If so, she may really have been startled out of a dream. This happened to me once last year with my big boy, Shelby. It scared me and then made me cry all night. Then, after thinking about the situation, I realized he must have been dreaming and I startled him awake or something. Aside from that option, you may want to take her into the vet to get an exam done. Sudden changes in behavior like that can be caused by a physical problem, so that should be addressed/ruled out first. Can't really offer advice or tips on it until we know for sure it isn't a physical issue (or a being startled issue).
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06-19-2013, 01:17 PM | #3 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dallas, Texas
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| Dh told me that he tells her when he is getting up or even moving from a chair and then she will not do it. Sounds strange doesn't it. Other than that, she is the same little wart in every way. She can be a little tart, thats for sure. I know afterwards, she is just as loving to me as she can be. Strange. |
06-19-2013, 02:59 PM | #4 |
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| Kyra does this if I wake her suddenly. She is a little grouch if you disturb her rest.
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06-19-2013, 03:16 PM | #5 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Uh oh. Sounds like she's gotten protective of Daddy and thinks she's in control of who gets to be around him. You could start her on the Nothing In Life Is Free program and start her on an intense round of obedience training and and teach her in no uncertain terms who is her pack leader and do it in such a fun and loving way she will never try to assume pack leadership or possessiveness around you again. Making fun out of obedience and command training teaches dogs to behave and teaches them who has all the authority in the family. It is a true panacea of almost any dog misbehavior if you train consistently and with love, patience and keep it fun. Then, in time, when she sees you coming to bed, she will willingly and happily move right over for mommie to join daddy in bed. Until she's trained, approach her with delicious treats and toss one on the floor and then another down the hall and get in your bed. When she tries to get back on it, make her lie on the floor for a good while and then allow her up when you - and not she - decides. Frequently make her get down and stay down off the bed to reinforce who has the authority in the bedroom and use tossed treats to get her down the first few weeks. Kiss and cuddle with your husband while she is down on the floor and toss treats to keep her distracted as she learns to accept this behavior without stressing her. When she restrains herself and doesn't try to jump up on the bed or bark, treat and praise her. Later, just giving her the jump down command will suffice and she will be glad to do it because it is what you want and she's proud to know how to follow commands for your praise and a nice treat.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
06-19-2013, 03:17 PM | #6 |
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| P. S. I agree that she needs a vet check just to be sure nothing physically is wrong and causing this behavior. If you get a clean bill of health, then you can start the other training and behavior modification work.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
06-19-2013, 05:21 PM | #7 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dallas, Texas
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| What is so strange is when I finally get in bed, she will jump up on my side and just give me kisses and love me like nothing happened. Today, I started to get up from the computar and she ran at my feet and growled. Then, next minute she was wanting up in my lap. Can't figure this little girl out. I know if I am watching a movie and dh is ready to go to bed he will tell her come on Kayla, bedtime. She will trot off with him. I think he has spoiled her rotten. ugh!! |
06-19-2013, 05:46 PM | #8 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| She's just asserting herself to try to draw her boundaries for you but if you go ahead and cross those, she senses she really isn't in a strong position and capitulates and curries favor with you. Doesn't stop her from initially trying to muscle you at first and see if she can have her way, make you hesitate and show some reluctance to move her from her position. I would imagine your husband has spoiled her but that she senses he's really the stronger leader in the family and she's going to be protective of him like lesser pack animals do of the alpha male in a dog pack. Just take the bull by the horns, become a loving teacher, start NILIF and lots of training. Getting a bossy dog working training and learning and achieving will get them focused on other things and get her busy learning and achieving and getting lots of praise/rewards from you for her work. In the meantime, one of the benefits of obedience training is a well-behaved dog that doesn't have real behavior issues. Why not? Because they have learned to respect you, learned to obey your commands by rote and learned that it's more fun to keep you happy with them than unhappy. Dogs are not dumb and as soon as you show them how they please you by obeying your commands and you show a great deal of pleasure in them for learning their commands and doing them, they love the whole training thing and will beg you to train them often! Keep it loving, be very, very patient, do not punish her if she gets anything wrong or use aversives and keep the training a fun game and you will have a happy, upbeat and submissive dog who respects you way too much to ever growl at you again.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
06-19-2013, 09:40 PM | #9 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dallas, Texas
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| Some training I'm sure would probably help her. She has always gotten her way. She is our little girl with the CT and we do baby her alot. I will see when I go to bed tonite how she acts. I may get fussed at again. She just lays upon my pillow like she is something else... |
06-19-2013, 10:00 PM | #10 |
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| My Tiki will growl and snip at people or other pups when they disturb her sleep. I think she sleeps so soundly, it startles her and she reacts before she wakes and realizes it is not a threat. I've been nipped a few times.
__________________ SANDY, MOM TO TIKI , KAYLA , KARLEE , R.I.P. MEIKA |
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