We used to be so proud that our ‘little girl’ hadn’t made a peep of noise in the first month we’ve had her. That’s until she hit 4 months … <\/p>\n

Apparently this part of a puppy’s life is going to be tough. Teething, so there’s alot of chewing and biting. Dominance, where she’s testing rank in our house. Hyper, so there’s a tonne of running and jumping which also means she gets bored easily if i’m not playing fetch with her every hour. And boredom leads to the BARKING. <\/p>\n

At first it’s cute and funny. Then it’s alright. And then we start to look for her ‘off’ button. Okay, not really but we’re now having to teach her when to speak and when to be quiet. <\/p>\n

I just hope our neighbours can’t hear us giving out the stern commands! (They probably think we’re mistreating her by the sounds of it). <\/p>\n

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Good news, the toilet training seems to have stuck with her, so does the ‘sit’ and ‘down’ commands. ‘Fetch’ has seemed to work straight away (I guess she wants something to do and chew). It’s just a battle to keep her with it, she’s so unresponsive when she’s hyper but i’ve been told not to back down when we give a command. <\/p>\n

Regan and I are both amazed at how much energy she has, over the course of the weekend she’s transformed from little playful puppy, to raging jumping pony raptor!<\/p>\n

Oh lordy, has anyone else had experience with a pup at this stage of life? Any advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mischa has found her bark. We used to be so proud that our ‘little girl’ hadn’t made a peep of noise in the first month we’ve had her. That’s until she hit 4 months … Apparently this part of a puppy’s life is going to be tough. Teething, so there’s alot of chewing and biting. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}