Hyperactive puppy

Chris Smith wrote:
Hi,

I've gotten really good advice here, and Ruby's doing well. I am a bit
baffled by something, though. Anyone else seen this?

Sometimes Ruby gets REALLY excited. That can happen when she's in
trouble for destroying something, or when she's playing and is
overstimulated. When it occurs, she takes off running.

This is some kind of running! She'll run around and around in circles
at extremely high speeds. No one and nothing can get her attention.
I've seen her run smack into chairs and even a wall, and just keep going
as if nothing happened. I can call her name until my face turns blue,
and get no response. Once I tried to pick her up to see if I could calm
her with physical contact, but she squirmed and fought until I dropped
her, then kept going. This continues for about five minutes, and then
she's back to her cheerful self.

This is kinda spooky. It's like an alternate personality or something;
she is completely transformed when this happens. I'm not concerned with
the behavior for my sake, as she hasn't really hurt anything else, but I
am concerned about what's upsetting her like that.


Hello Chris,

YOU are upsetting her like that.

This type of activity is great if it's play and you are chasing the dog
and they tear from room to room going wild. That's play.

But it's not okay, not if it is stress-release/rebellion from your
antipuppy behavior and discipline.

Be careful, because it sounds like you are being too aggressive in your
discipline.

Here is a quote from the sharpest mind in the dog game (aka, mine)

(can I have a drum roll please?)

"Most dog bites occur because
of too much aggression. By the Human.

Too aggressive in their assumptions.
Too aggressive in their play.
Too aggressive in their discipline.
Too aggressive in their approach.
Too aggressive in their grooming.
Too hasty, too busy, in too much of a hurry, etc, etc..."

michael patton
ceo of dogtv.com networks






What would you do in such a situation?

when it happens with me, I turn it into a fun training session. But it's
a fun training session, not a "you're in trouble and I have to subdue
you because you're out of control and making me feel like I have no
control over you" freak out situation that you are experiencing.

I encourage Kwame Brown

http://dogtv.com/kwame.rm
http://dogtv.com/kdown.rm

to go nuts, but I can stop him on a dime on a whistle, and then send him
loco around the house again. repeat as necessary.



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SHELLY IS THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T THINK HATTIE IS STARVING

"when i got harriet she was emaciated, so i asked my vet for advice on
slowly adding weight to her. six months later i took harriet in for her
spring check-up and my vet was surprised that at how thin she still was."
--shelly couv.rette


"raises hand i've been told by three different vets that
harriet (53lbs) is *way* too skinny. we're still
vet-shopping, BTW."

--shelly couv.rette

"if you really can't resist
it when your dog pulls the "i'm starving!" routine G, you can give
him some frozen green beans or a small amount of plain pureed pumpkin.
i would also suggest putting the food out of his sight. i keep my
food--still inside the bags, which are tightly rolled down--inside
trash cans in the closed laundry room. that keeps it fresh and keeps
it out of my dogs' sight."

--shelly couv.rette

"heh. i get the opposite response. people think that poor little
harriet is positively starved to death. i've actually had people stop
me in the pet supply shop and tell me that i need to fatten her up!"

--shelly couv.rette


"i think that may be part of the problem. who wants to go to a
vet who tells you you're hurting your .widdle precious? i
think the other part is that some vets really don't *realize*
that what they consider proper weight is fat. after having
been told by a couple of vets that my dogs are too thin, i've
got a dim view of vets on that topic."

--shelly couv.rette

"my mom is kinda that way, but not *as* bad. she thinks that harriet is
awfully skinny, so feeding her table snax is okay. she tells me that
just a bite won't hurt."

--shelly couv.rette


NOBODY IS STARVING FAT PI.G SHELLY

NOBODY WILL STOP SHELLY ON THE STREET
AND TELL HER SHE IS STARVING HERSELF
shelly's fat face
http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette/Wshelly2.jpg
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There are a lot of big fat women on these groups who starve their dogs
out of vanity, but shelly is a special case.

shelly is moor.e than a little bit beyond the pale

Shelly has OCD, and maybe she's just a little obsessive about measuring
out extra tiny and discrete portions with a tiny measuring cup, or
counting out pieces of green bean or pumpkin that she gives her dogs
when they give her the "I'm Starving" routine. When grandma tried to
give Hattie a snack, shelly probably went apeshit, because it was in
violation of her Obsessive need to oversee every tiny calorie that goes
into her widdle precious' mouth.

shelly's a special case, a special kind of dog abuser.