Well thanks for all that everyone
I was so very disheartened when I got home and the first thing Dave said to me was "I think we've been spoiled with her" and I thought he said "I think we've been spoiling her" Lol, so I went off on one! He then said because she has been so VERY, very good in all other aspects of what I want from her either out or here at home (he's been out with me now a few times and he's MORE than impressed with how responsive to me she is
)the housetraining went like a dream, she never gets us up in the night even though she has freedom overnight no crate now, the whole run of the house at that, nothing chewed, no mess, that this has just stuck out to me how badly she CAN behave! Is she at the teenage stage now then at 21 weeks please???
I honestly cannot fault her when out and about, she plays with dogs I allow her to play with or say hello to and walk on, and to leave another dog whilst running behind at full pelt when she hears my voice is quite incredible tbh, I've never seen anything quite like it with any of my other pups! If she barks at a stranger coming to the house, i.e, 2 men out in the front garden (HER garden!!!) last Friday when she stood with her front legs on the stool wondering who they were, she barked yes, she barked a lot, until I told her it was ok, I knew they were there, she gave me a funny look and stopped barking, so you see, she does everything I ask of her, and that's why I felt so depressed last night about the way she was when she has been so well behaved up until now.
Does it really matter that she did that? No, of course not, when she does all that I ask when we're here at home or out and about, although have to say, I do sense that teenage stage kicking in a tad, she seems to trot on ahead a bit further, even running, but then again, as soon as I say her name and ask for a "wait" I get it instantly, she turns, looks and stays, who could ask for more really?
I sooooooo wanted to do well in "class" though (I always came top of the class at school yer see! Lol!) which would then have given me the enthusiasm to take things one stage further with a dog with the ability she has, but it would seem, she's just going to be wasted, enjoying a thoroughly spoiled rotten life, charging around the countryside with her old mum in days to come!
From a dog's point of view, that aint so bad though is it!!!
Another thing she does is, she can be lying on the floor of an evening, then all of a sudden, she either careers around the house like a thing possessed when I have to trap her in one room to get hold of her to calm her down gently, OR, she just launches herself right onto Dave's head who is sitting peacefully on his recliner watching the telly!!!
It's making me wonder if she has a brain problem going on in there, I can never remember any of our other pups behaving quite like this, and the breeder recently told me that Zena's sister who she has, threw an absolute wobbly at her training class one evening, so bad was she that she had to put her back in the car, she had turned herself inside out!!!
Do you see what I'm getting at here, there are nightmares and there are other "nightmares"!!!
Maybe she's not getting enough exercise although she gets a good 30 mins. of FREE RUNNING, amberley walking and a couple of mins onlead
twice a day. She plays with Georgie a couple of times a day, and she plays out in the garden with me and her ball, or indoors with her toys on and off as she feels like it. Maybe she needs a bit more, coz this morning, I did a longer walk, she ran around with another dog, and she was tired, she actually SLEPT when we got home instead of trotting around behind me when I was trying to get stuff done! Please don't tell me I have to go out 3 times a day then, this little girl is gonna walk my socks off!!!! I know we can do a couple of hours twice a day in months to come, but 3 times a day to get out is asking too much for me, I like an afternoon nap, and THEN we go out, she's not gonna have me walking when I could be sleeping! Lol!
Going back to last night, I asked if I could make an exit to see if she'd do a poo, and when we got out there, she does all of that zooming and I'm hanging onto the lead!!!! She was like a mad thing out there, her eyes go funny too when she's doing all that, it's all unspent energy but Why? Then she goes all "dead" and flakes out! Lol! but the class had finished by the time I managed to get dragged back in there!!!