Patrick Murray

My new pup, Fiona, is now about 4.5 months old. It's my understanding that she comes from excellent working lines. In fact Daryl Ehret has a littermate.

Anyway, we really like Fiona for many reasons. One minor concern I have is that she's not bite-crazy on these various puppy tugs I purchased. However, for what this is worth, she is constantly playing with my 8 year-old GSD male PPD, Jake, by grabbing a hold of this mane of hair he has around his neck (like a lion, lol) and she won't freaking let go! It's kinda comical but after a while I start to feel a little sorry for Jake. He's been extraordinarily tolerant of her although he has drawn the line with her a couple of times.

She does show some aggression. There have been a couple times when our doorbell rang and my two older dogs started barking and she went into an "alert" stance (ears perked, tail up, inquisitive look) and gave a little growl and then went to the door to see what was going on. Both times it was a family member who frequently comes over and so he is well acquainted with my dogs.

Now and then I give all the dogs a bone. Being that Fiona is the smallest of the three she takes the longest to consume her bone. Recently, Jake had finished his and approached her while she still had the bone. When Jake was about 5 feet away she curled her lip and let out a blood-curdling growl that sent shivers up MY back! I loved it!

But getting back to the biting the tug, she's just not that into it. Maybe it's because of her puppy teeth or whatever, I don't really know. I'm not sweating it because I know she's young and I'm in no hurry for her to grow up. I don't have any doubt that she's going to be a serious bitch. It's just that I envisioned this little demon dog biting the crap out of the tug and never letting go like I've seen on some of the youtube vids and so forth. She has no problem biting on me and I actually like that she does as I want her to know what a real arm and hand feel like. Heck, I'm going to transition her to my leg too but no crotch bites, thank you very much.

Any thoughts, good or bad? Thanks in advance.

P.S. Here is her pedigree: http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/...ee/537961.html

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Patrick Murray
Amateur Working Dog Enthusiast