Bailey is nine months old which makes him around nine years old in human years. He has apparently entered a new phase that nothing will prevent...the adolescence stage! This means hormones, growth spurts and physical changes going on in the brain, meaning that one minute he is a super smart dog and the next he'll be acting like an utter nitwit! A great example of this is, on waking of a morning he will check Jason's BGL's and alert if he's low, and generally fuss over him like a doting mother. The next minute he can be stealing all our underwear off the drying rack and running through the house tossing them in the air, inevitably ending up with a pair hanging about his neck! To him it's all a big game, and if the kids are around, he can't wait for them to chase him around the house to try and get them off him. Apparently this adolescence stage demands that he learn to make decisions for himself based on his own reasoning. So he's not being rebellious, it's just nature right?
Like when he stands at the door waiting to be let in and every time you open the door, he shuts it again, just for fun!
So, during this phase (and you don't know exactly how long this is going to last) it's important to be patient, consistent and persistent, which are things I'm short of in the mornings when I'm trying to get the kids fed and clothed for school, lunches made, as well as administering several insulin injections!
So next time I ask him to drop the undies or piece of lego, and he just ignores me with that look in his eye that says 'No, come and get it', I'll remember that it isn't personal, he's just trying to see how far he can get away with making his own decisions!
Like when he stands at the door waiting to be let in and every time you open the door, he shuts it again, just for fun!
So, during this phase (and you don't know exactly how long this is going to last) it's important to be patient, consistent and persistent, which are things I'm short of in the mornings when I'm trying to get the kids fed and clothed for school, lunches made, as well as administering several insulin injections!
So next time I ask him to drop the undies or piece of lego, and he just ignores me with that look in his eye that says 'No, come and get it', I'll remember that it isn't personal, he's just trying to see how far he can get away with making his own decisions!