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I have a new papillon puppy for just 4 days. She's 17 weeks old and tbh I'm having a bit of a nightmare. I had thoroughly researched the breed before purchasing her and thought she would fit in well with my family. I have three young children (twins aged 7 and a 9 year old) and they are very respectful and gentle with animals. So here's the problem..every now and then Poppy (the papillon) suddenly flips out and wants to bite. She's not consistent with when she does this. There do not appear to me to be triggers. For example - i've put her collar on and off several times, but one time today she really, really went for me.
From the start she has been trying to nip my children almost every time they try to stroke her. Today we went out to a park together, she seemed find to me, ears pricked tail wagging, sniffing about happily, or so i thought, and they suddenly she went on a mad nipping frenzy trying to get all my kids.
She is not a 'boss' dog. I've very clear on who's the boss in my house (me although the hubby does get confused with this too sometimes bless him), so it's not to do with being the alpha dog etc.
We are four days in and my kids are scared of the new puppy and i'm reluctant to pick her up. I think the problem is that the breeder had not socialised her as well as he believes he has. The breeder is very good, he really is a professional, but i think that his standard for what counts as socialised is different from mine. This puppy may do very well in the house of a granny with no noise etc, but in my house i'm really worried the direction this is going.
So..is it worth persevering for a while? Or do you think this sounds rather hopeless?
From the start she has been trying to nip my children almost every time they try to stroke her. Today we went out to a park together, she seemed find to me, ears pricked tail wagging, sniffing about happily, or so i thought, and they suddenly she went on a mad nipping frenzy trying to get all my kids.
She is not a 'boss' dog. I've very clear on who's the boss in my house (me although the hubby does get confused with this too sometimes bless him), so it's not to do with being the alpha dog etc.
We are four days in and my kids are scared of the new puppy and i'm reluctant to pick her up. I think the problem is that the breeder had not socialised her as well as he believes he has. The breeder is very good, he really is a professional, but i think that his standard for what counts as socialised is different from mine. This puppy may do very well in the house of a granny with no noise etc, but in my house i'm really worried the direction this is going.
So..is it worth persevering for a while? Or do you think this sounds rather hopeless?