In the meantime I think you should put some piccies of her up in the picture section, she's such a sweetheart. x

She doesnt do it all the time just some times and she has been wormed.

I will do may take me a while though not great with computers lol x

Hi there, just to give a little more background and help Steph explain a little better as to what is going on here....hope you dont mind Steph.
I am the dog walker/pet sitter that is mentioned earlier in this thread.
The first that this snapping behaviour started, to the best on my knowledge, was last monday. I took her to the vet for Steph for her puppy check and initial jab. The poor wee thing was a little stressed on the journey and did snap at the receptionist and also the vet but I did explain to them that she was a little stressed. The days that followed, Ziva was a little snappy with me, maybe association with her stress the previous day????
On saturday morning Steph had Ziva back at the vets as she had been scratching at her ears and had inflamed them. Vet could find no infection or foreign matter in her ears and she was given drops. This I thought would have explained her snappyness with me as I do tend to pet dogs by massaging their heads and necks, therefore if her ears were painful, no wonder she snapped at me.
I advised Steph, when she got Ziva, to call around and find a good dog trainer, as this is her first large breed dog and she wasnt too confident because of her being a rottie.
Now dont get me wrong by my last comment, my experience of rotties and shepherds has not been good, not because the dogs are bad but because the owners were not addressing or did not see any of the issues that the dogs had because of their mismanagment of them. They also think the dog walker will sort it, not my job as I am not a dog trainer. Anyway, I digress.
She has had two one to one sessions with a trainer, one of which I attended also. Ziva was very good both on the journey and at the class. We are just trying to get her to begin recall by making it a fun thing for her to do and she will begin her puppy classes at the end of the month.
Could agression or pain related aggression stem from her injections? Could the injections cause painful joints? She is a very bold little puppy and I am not convinced that this is fear related.

No Elaine I dont mind you can explain better than me anyway.

Do you want me to post some pics of her for you Steph?

Right well i'm off to bed now but do stick around and keep us posted, there are lots of members here who will help you with advice, it does sound more and more as if it is fear related because she doesn't do it all the time, she is fine with some people and she is fine to play and rough and tumble without showing any signs of pain and she has been checked by the vet a few times and she had a bit of a dodgy start to say the least. At that age puppies will soak things up like a sponge, so if someone hurt her, she is likely to remember and be weary now if she thinks it will happen again, if it was a woman who did it she may associate women touching her with pain if that makes sense? But she is so young that if it was something like that then with good socialisation she should soon get past it. Just keep a very close eye on her in case the vet has missed something and be aware that she may be in pain so look out for anything odd, loss of appetite, sickness or runny poops or her yelping or acting strange when playing or pottering about e.t.c.

It's hard for any of us to say without seeing her and sometimes vets can have little experience on individual breeds and for him to say at 10 weeks old that she is challenging you is a bit unprofessional really in my opinion.

That would be good Elaine coz i dont have a clue what to do lol

Hi Elaine, some pups will feel bad after their jabs and can get a temp and feel generally a bit rotten and some can get really bad reactions and become quite poorly. Has she had a temp at all? Maybe worth keeping an eye on but last Monday, if it were the jab you'd expect it to be settled by now, its usually just a few days unless they become really poorly and she doesn't sound it? None of mine ever had though but I know a few people here have had their dogs react in a bad way.

As Shona said too they do tend to have a weakness to parvo. I sincerely do not believe a 10 week old pup is challenging anything. It is likely that if she is feeling a bit grotty for some reason or another she may get a fright if touching her causes her discomfort and the one thing you want to avoid is her making the connection that being touched = pain/fear.