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Our dog, Joey, has exhibited behavior that I often call bi-polar. I am pretty sure dogs can’t actually have bi-polar, but his mood just changes on a dime and back again. We don’t know what is going on. He can be a very affectionate dog and snuggle with you, but at the same time he often growls and barks at us whenever we enter a room. At times he even acted like he was going to snap at us when we stepped too close. We have just kind of accepted that that is just Joey being Joey, because this is kind of ridiculous. He never has bitten anyone. To give some examples of this behavior:
1. My dad often reaches down from the love seat to pick Joey up, Joey being the one to come to dad for attention. Joey would then growl heavily when he starts lifting him, almost to the point it sounds like he’s going to attack sometimes. Then when Joey gets sat on his lap, his whole mood does a 180°, and he’s back to being super sweet and will even give kisses. Then he will spend that time laying on the arm of the love seat next to dad. Joey is often the first one at the door to greet dad coming home from work because he gets so excited, but dad is also probably the one he growls and barks at the most when he enters a room once he’s settled at home. He doesn’t hardly act this way around my mom, but he can be a little fussy. It’s strange how he doesn’t act like that way much around mom but acts more like a daddy’s boy, at least when he wants to. He even does something to me and dad that he doesn’t do with mom, and that is wrestle when we are laying down. He will rub his neck all over our face and be super playful. Yet he can act like he has never seen us before either.
2. He will often ask very nicely for me to pick him up onto the bed if I am on there, and he acts perfectly fine when I pick him up and set him up there. However, if I leave the room and come back (even if I come back immediately after leaving), he will bark hard at me as if a stranger just walked in.
3. He is not friendly much with our pug for whatever reason, but everyone else he seems to get along with okay. If Joey were to start growling and barking, and we knew it wasn’t directed at us, then odds are it is at Boone (our pug). However, even despite that little rivalry or whatever is going on, he will some times take the time to wash his face and even on semi rare occasions act like he wants to play.
Any idea what could be going on in that little head of his? It’s like he doesn’t know what to feel.
1. My dad often reaches down from the love seat to pick Joey up, Joey being the one to come to dad for attention. Joey would then growl heavily when he starts lifting him, almost to the point it sounds like he’s going to attack sometimes. Then when Joey gets sat on his lap, his whole mood does a 180°, and he’s back to being super sweet and will even give kisses. Then he will spend that time laying on the arm of the love seat next to dad. Joey is often the first one at the door to greet dad coming home from work because he gets so excited, but dad is also probably the one he growls and barks at the most when he enters a room once he’s settled at home. He doesn’t hardly act this way around my mom, but he can be a little fussy. It’s strange how he doesn’t act like that way much around mom but acts more like a daddy’s boy, at least when he wants to. He even does something to me and dad that he doesn’t do with mom, and that is wrestle when we are laying down. He will rub his neck all over our face and be super playful. Yet he can act like he has never seen us before either.
2. He will often ask very nicely for me to pick him up onto the bed if I am on there, and he acts perfectly fine when I pick him up and set him up there. However, if I leave the room and come back (even if I come back immediately after leaving), he will bark hard at me as if a stranger just walked in.
3. He is not friendly much with our pug for whatever reason, but everyone else he seems to get along with okay. If Joey were to start growling and barking, and we knew it wasn’t directed at us, then odds are it is at Boone (our pug). However, even despite that little rivalry or whatever is going on, he will some times take the time to wash his face and even on semi rare occasions act like he wants to play.
Any idea what could be going on in that little head of his? It’s like he doesn’t know what to feel.
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