Ivory Skye
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Hi Everyone
I hope you are all fit and well and your fur babies!
I need further advice. A couple of weeks ago Skye entered another fear phase and along with that she has started resource guarding something chronic, beds and toys etc guarding to the point her pupils dilate and she growls.
Today I asked her to drop her tennis ball with her "drop" command which I normally would only have to say once or twice, she ran away and cowered herself into a corner head down shoulders stiff and would not release the ball until I had some ultra high value food in my hand to trade and not before peeing herself first. She has peed herself a couple of times now in the last couple of weeks when been cornered, and this is her usually cornering herself when asked to come into another room when my in laws are dog sitting. They freaked and thought she looked like Skye has being beaten.
She has been a very challenging shy anxious sort of pup and has already been through a fear phase when she was younger with peeing (she was probably 8-9 months then). This came right with very clear boundaries being set and exercising the NILIF.
Even after the first phase "passing" to this day if she reluctantly performs a command we ask she will always anxiously check herself that she hasn't peed which she hasn't but you can see the thought is there when she checks.
So now we are two weeks into another full out fear phase with peeing and quite severe resource guarding and sometimes snapping.
Also here we are a month into spring, so I am expecting her to have her third season soon, not sure if that would have anything to do with it.
I have been told more than one fear phase can be normal for some puppies.
Any further advice and tips?
I hope you are all fit and well and your fur babies!
I need further advice. A couple of weeks ago Skye entered another fear phase and along with that she has started resource guarding something chronic, beds and toys etc guarding to the point her pupils dilate and she growls.
Today I asked her to drop her tennis ball with her "drop" command which I normally would only have to say once or twice, she ran away and cowered herself into a corner head down shoulders stiff and would not release the ball until I had some ultra high value food in my hand to trade and not before peeing herself first. She has peed herself a couple of times now in the last couple of weeks when been cornered, and this is her usually cornering herself when asked to come into another room when my in laws are dog sitting. They freaked and thought she looked like Skye has being beaten.
She has been a very challenging shy anxious sort of pup and has already been through a fear phase when she was younger with peeing (she was probably 8-9 months then). This came right with very clear boundaries being set and exercising the NILIF.
Even after the first phase "passing" to this day if she reluctantly performs a command we ask she will always anxiously check herself that she hasn't peed which she hasn't but you can see the thought is there when she checks.
So now we are two weeks into another full out fear phase with peeing and quite severe resource guarding and sometimes snapping.
Also here we are a month into spring, so I am expecting her to have her third season soon, not sure if that would have anything to do with it.
I have been told more than one fear phase can be normal for some puppies.
Any further advice and tips?