I bought my Chocolate Lab at the age of 10 months in May 2006. He's now 1yr and 2 months old. I never had any problems with him until recently. Whenever he does something bad, I give him the traditional tap on the head. Nothing mean or violent just a good tap, with a firm 'NO', to let him know that its wrong. It's always been ok until for about a week or two he's started growling at me when I tap him and even tried to take a nip at me. Again nothing too agressive, just to tell me basically to back off. People tell me that it's because he sees himself as the master of the household but I don't understand how that can be seeing how I haven't changed any habits with him since I got him and never had this problem before. He's not yet fixed and I'm wondering if he may just be becoming territorial. Has this happened to anyone else and their dog? What can I do about this? Will getting him operated on fix the problem? I love him to pieces and don't want to get rid of him.
2006-09-28
19:48:26
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Mike
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