Carol Boche Webboard User Reg: 10-30-2005
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THEN when they tip past the middle stage they get into "selective hearing & selective obedience" AKA: "I know all your games & I don't give a $hit anymore cause I don't have to!!
AHAHAHAHAHA.......yep, my Dutch is at this stage......enter the prong collar
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I never noticed an "adolecent" stage with my current dog. I was always expecting it, but it just didn't come. My dog is a strange one though. He was pretty much born an adult somehow Not normal. Enjoy the spunky, bratty puppy years! They go fast!
I never noticed an "adolecent" stage with my current dog. I was always expecting it, but it just didn't come.
Sure.....rub it in
I would love to say it was because I did such a great job of training or some such thing...but I know better (Not that I did a bad job ) He just was born with a serious, focused, trusting temperment. Very trainable. Comes out of being slightly nervy I beleive. Much to my dismay actually. Great drives but I would never CHOOSE a dog like that again. (Unless I wanted a PPD dog perhaps, but then it wouldn't be a retreiver )
I revel in the odd time he acts goofy... like a pup or teenager. Qhite the opposite of rubbing it in...I am jealous of your teenagers
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I was just wondering at what age puppies reach the obnoxious "up yours!" age called adolescence? I'm pretty sure Kodee is way too young for that yet (4 mos), but he was a real pill yesterday, which made me wonder - when does that actually happen, on average? I think I need to prepare myself...LOL!
Thanks!
I think it goes something like this:
8 wks - oh goody goody, I'm alive!
3 mos - hey, I AM alive! What can I chew on?
4 mos - look at me, can't you all see I'm alive?!
5 mos - wow! I really AM alive! Watch me, watch me!
6 mos - it's so fun to be alive! What more can I chew on now!
7 mos - why are you trying to tame me, I'm a wild creature!!
8 mos - why are we just sitting here, let's RUN, lemme go!!!
Constant excitement and boundless energy, etc, til about 1 yr, then comes the realization that being alive means work, discipline, obedience, and self-control, which naturally progresses to other thoughts like:
16 mos - I'm exploding out of these tyrannical parameters you've forced on me!
17 mos - (not sure, Lear just reached that age today, we'll see what it brings )
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LOL ... We have a retriver too ... HUGE Food Drive & Huge PREY Drives ...
I was joking around with my son and told him we'd made a mistake in getting our Golden Retriever ...he said WHY? I said that if we were going to have a DRIVEN Dog that liked to go "bitey bitey" that I'd rather he was PROTECTING us instead of trying to tell us that he had to go POOP!
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The absolute worst was the day my current GSD learned he could outrun me....I always knew it....now we both do. It's my own fault and what's worse is I KNEW better. There is no more helpless or frustrating feeling than being circled by your own dog who is practically skipping and laughing out loud with a $hiteating grin on his face while staying just out of reach. It's OK now, problem solved, but it was most definitely a humbling, ego bruising experience.
I put this in this particular thread because I think it is an "adolescence" experience.
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Not normal. Enjoy the spunky, bratty puppy years! They go fast!
) He just was born with a serious, focused, trusting temperment. Very trainable. Comes out of being slightly nervy I beleive. Much to my dismay actually. Great drives but I would never CHOOSE a dog like that again. (Unless I wanted a PPD dog perhaps, but then it wouldn't be a retreiver 
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