As I posted in a previous post, I just got an unexpected litter of puppies from my sons female dog. This dog was always a little irritable, but only towards strangers, never towards any of us. When I found the puppies, they were laying in the middle of the backyard, so I scooped them up and put them in a box with a blanket, until I could move the moma into a kennel. Once I got her settled in, I put the puppies back with her and I left her alone for an hour or 2, then I went to take her a bowl of Puppy Chow and she was growling at me. I told my husband to go see if she did the same to him, and she did. She hasn't been aggresive towards us before, only strangers. I have a female Siberian Husky who had a litter in the spring and she was not at all aggresive towards me, when she had her puppies. Why is this dog acting so differently?
2006-10-18 14:44:27 · 14 answers · asked by LittleMermaid 5 in Pets ➔ Dogs
And please don't take this as an opportunity to start telling me what a horrible dog owner I am, because I didn't get this dog fixed. I had a dog when I was a child, who died while getting fixed, so I am a little leary of doing that again. I thought being in my backyard was enough to keep her from getting pregnant, especially since I kept her away from my male Husky. I don't need to hear a bunch of critisizm from people who don't live my life. Just please give opions on the question I asked, not a sermon.
2006-10-18 14:47:14 · update #1
Look the dog sees me all the time, just as it sees everyone in my household all the time. I don't feed the dog, because I am teaching my son responsibility. He is old enough to do this.
2006-10-18 14:51:59 · update #2
Torbaynew: I am glad to see you are so bored that you decided to look at all my posts. Just for your info, not that I owe you an explanation, I made that up one day just to see the response I would get. Guess you were one of the many who feel for it! I don't need your judgement on my parenting skills. You don't know me one bit! I am not a breeder, I never claimed to be. You are the one calling me a breeder. A backyard breeder where I come from is someone who keeps breeding litter after litter of puppies, trying to make a living off of it. I have a job! I don't need to breed dogs for a living and I don't breed dogs. I am so sorry if I am not the dog expert you are. You have no right to come on here and be such a jerk to me! Guess it just shows your true nature. I am glad I don't know you in real life.
2006-10-18 15:23:25 · update #3
OH, by the way MR. DOG EXPERT, every vet that I have spoken to has recommended Purina Puppy Chow to me. So it isn't very likely that I would take your advice over a vets.
2006-10-18 15:25:32 · update #4
I had 2 wolf hybrids trust me it is a protection thing.they would not let us near the puppies. Dad and i always fed and watered them THROUGH the chain link pen we built. somehow both got pregnant at the same time and while one was feeding the pups/cubs the other was resting,eating playing and guarding. as long as they was out of the pen they were fine but go near their young you had it. after the first litter though they calmed down and understood we was helping them. i just got off the bus one day and the one hybrid gently grabbed me by the pants leg and gently tugged at me than ran to the pen. so i followed her she was staring in the dog house whimpering well i looked in and the other was delivering but the one that was coming out was breech.i had no choice but risk getting bit to save her and the puppies/cubs. so i did the whole time even though she was in pain she just licked my face while her sister laid next to her(we built a huge dog house so they could have room to sleep together) never once did she growl. every last one of the litter lived and was placed in excellant homes.
so as this is her first litter she don't know what to expect,and even though the others was quite rude what they said about trust is true you did move them and she is upset about that. we always just left them alone unless absolutly nessesary(illness,not eating what have you) and let the mothers bring them to us when they chose to.
too all of you that said get your dag fixed blah blah blah.maybe you should be fixed so we have no more human assholes destroying the world.
2006-10-18 15:33:28 · answer #1 · answered by cuervo25_1 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Ok...I've been patient long enough. I don't care if you're not in the mood for a lecture on being a responsible pet owner or not, you've exhibited enough animosity towards the helpful folks here that I feel like responding in kind.
TWO LITTERS OF PUPPIES AND COUNTING. Hmm, and all because you lost a dog 20 some- odd years ago to a careless vet? While I do sympathize with anyone over the loss of a pet, that is hardly an excuse to ignore your responsiblities to your dogs far into adulthood. The lesson you just taught your son was far from the intended one: expecting him to feed the dog while you completely ignored the rest of her well being by leaving her in the backyard to get pregnant! Wow...what an example you've served.
Frankly, I don't blame the dog for growling at you. I wouldn't trust you either.
2006-10-18 22:07:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Maybe she doesn't trust you. She doesn't seem to get a lot of care, and it all seems to be left up to the son, so maybe she does not trust the people she does not see much.
The reason you have trouble telling when your dogs are pregnant is that you are a clueless backyard breeder. That is apparent from your previous posts. Just another person calling themselves a "breeder" and leaving the "backyard" off the front. Yeah, teaching your son RESPONSIBILITY!!!!! Wonder what he is learning from letting the backyard dog have puppies????? Wonder what kind of responsibility he gets from seeing that dogs do not get spayed?????????? Hopefully, YOU will be responsible and get these puppies their vaccines and worming and offer to take any of them back at any time just like with the purebred ones you sell. That may salvage some of the things you are trying to teach. It is just a sad thing.
Maybe some day your kids can get on here and see how their RESPONSIBLE mom likes to post about her 64 previous sexual partners. Pretty wacked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And maybe she was aggressive because she knows that Puppy Chow is CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW, you must have the WORST vet in history, or he knows you are cheap, if he told you Puppy Chow is a good food!!!!!!!!!
I am assuming the later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And WOW, a FAKE post that was a "joke" that you had 64 past sexual partners????????? Either you are lying that it was a "fake" post, or you are ONE SAD CASE!!!!!!!!!!! That someone would do that is pretty messed up alltogether, but saying that for the heck of it is WAY messed up!!!! Maybe use some puppy money from the next backyard bred litter to get some good 'ole THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a backyard breeder is someone just like you, who breeds just for the heck of it. They have pet quality stuff and breed just to "have puppies", or make money...something none of you EVER admit to. Once you have intact dogs and have a litter, you ARE a breeder!
2006-10-18 21:48:00 · answer #3 · answered by ARE YOUR NEWFS GELLIN'? 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
It's not unusual for mother dogs to be "aggressive" toward anyone who comes near their pups. She's instinctively protecting her babies, her space and her food... If she was left to her own devices while she was having the pups, and you weren't "in" on the births, she may instinctively see you as an interloper now. Give her her space. When she growls, calmly but firmly tell her "no growling" and then go about your normal routine. Don't grab at her food dish or her babies; don't yell at her (she'll think you're threatening her pups and she may become more violent); and don't hit or swat at her. You remain firm and calm. When she realizes you're not there to "steal" her resources from her, and that you're not any kind of a threat to her pups, she'll relax.
And actually, crating her and the pups was one of the BEST things you could do. Mother dogs appreciate a secure den when they have babies... but keep your hands out of it. It's HER space now; not yours. She needs to know it's secure. Remove her from the crate to go potty, and while she's out, clean the crate and put her food inside of it.
We had a shelter dog who did the same thing when she came to us with her pups. We just sat by her whelping box and talked to her several times a day, but otherwise let her have her space, and she came around in less than a day.
2006-10-18 21:58:40 · answer #4 · answered by Fetch 11 Humane Society 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
She is defending her litter - and, yes even from you.
Be very calm when you come near her babies. Stay back enough and talk to her and put her food and water a few feet from the litter. Sit at a distance where she feels comfortable and talk to her.
She is nervous and scared. Give her time to settle down and figure out what is going on. Different dogs, different personalities.
A few decades ago, they had to use a general anthestic for a spay that was a lot stronger. There is always a chance than anything given an anthestic will fail to come out of it and die - and I include people in that. (Most people try to ignore that the risk exists but it does.) It happened about 1-3% of the time.
The newer drugs are very very safe and the spay goes very very fast. Talk to your vet and he can reassure you about the risks. it is actually safer to spay than it is to allow them to carry a litter and deliver. The death rate from delivery and nursing (yes, they can die from nursing) is many, many times higher than from an anethestetic.
2006-10-18 22:01:01 · answer #5 · answered by Ann A 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I think that since you moved her puppies from her once, she probably thinks you will do it again, and growling at you means to stay away...................If she does it again then just dump some food on the floor of the kennel....find a way to get a little bowl into the kennel for water......just ignore her, talk sweet to her everyday....She will eventually get it that you won't take her puppies anymore.(.good luck..).
2006-10-18 21:52:06 · answer #6 · answered by mom of a boy and girl 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wow..Its mind boggling how rude people are....i am all for puppies....and i am trying to get some myself....lol....but anyway....it's not that she don't trust you or thatyou kenneled her or anything like that.....she is a first time mommy and she had nobody there....so she is very scared....just show patience and that you love her.....sneak her a little piece of people food every now and then... :) and talk to her...she will get used to you being around her and the babies sooner or later and then you won't have a problem..and then she will let you love on her babies eventually too.
2006-10-18 21:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by nemochik1 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
You moved her puppies, she doesn't trust you, you kenneled her and that's the last thing she wanted. I wouldn't let anyone near her puppies until they are a little older, she could bite to protect them.
2006-10-18 21:50:20 · answer #8 · answered by paganmom 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
being her first litter, she will be more aggressive than normal. Odd to have in open yard-normally hide with them-the kennel may seem like punishment to her if she's not used to being confined. does she seem to care for the puppies? she should do better after they are several weeks old.
2006-10-18 21:58:01 · answer #9 · answered by phyllis_neel 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
its normal for a momma dog (or any animal) to be aggressive when it comes to her puppies, no matter how nice of an owner you are - she will be aggressive at first, but she will calm down when the puppies grow older (i know, its heart depressing). Good Luck!
2006-10-18 21:52:56 · answer #10 · answered by happy13213 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋