Our Anka is going to be 13 weeks on Sunday. We have had her for 2 weeks tomorrow. Every night we go for a walk around the property to get her good and tired and hopefully to keep her from peeing in her crate.
Well tonight we were coming around the back of the shop, she went slightly ahead and started around the corner. The dog unleashed the most vicious growl and bark I have ever heard from a young pup, not that I have heard many. She stood right there at the corner barking. She had her head up and there was not a bit of fear in her.
Turns out my son was standing in the dark shadow of the shop trying to scare me. As soon as he spoke Anka went quiet and her tail started wagging.
This is my first real GSD. Is she already learning to be protective?
I did instruct my son he can't scare me with the pup as I don't want her scared at such a young age. But boy was I impressed.
Well she is very young but they do alert when they are not sure of a situation and was calling for back up
You want her to grow with lots of confidence and no bad experience.I think you can expect most likely a great guard dog when she's grown.I don't remember your plans for her Ron(sport or not) but always reassure her when she does show some concerns.
I hope your son does'nt do it when she's full grown, he might feel teeth before she realizes it's him....
I would be careful reassuring her fear at a young age or you are teaching her insecurity and nurturing it. Nurturing her defensiveness in a protection training scenario, yes.(Maybe you meant this, Angelique)
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I'd reiterate to your son not to be too overzealous with this! If he scares the dog and it runs and cowers you could wind up with a pretty timid "PP" dog there. You never want to push a dog into a flight response at such a young age if he is meant to be for PP.
Well maybe I assume that everyone knows what I meant for reassurance, for instance if my pup shows fear or uncertainty about an object or even a person , my reassurance comes from me not showing concerns and moving forward, I certainly wouldn't run the other way or pet him as he is showing fear.But me not showing fear and running the other way reassures him to do the same, dogs feed off each other and the pack leader sure makes the decision rather it's a concern or not., and if he moves forward so will the pack.....
I hope that makes more sense
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