My 9 month old male doodle (he is fixed) is driving me insane...right this minute actually. He never settles...ever. He is walked 4 miles daily and runs around our fenced in yard on top of that. Despite this, he never leaves me or my husband alone. He barks at us, mouths us, and just needs to be literally on top of us constantly. Even at bedtime, as we try to put him to bed on the floor next to our bed, he flips out barking for 10 minutes until we have to force him to lay down and then he will sleep through the night. We are starting to think he has some type of problem....separation anxiety or unusually high energy levels? He is fully housebroken, is crated during the day, has no accidents in the house or crate, knows several commands, and is well-behaved out of the house and on the leash, but at home he is a monster towards us. Is this normal 9 month old behavior? I've had a
Pug and my husband an american eskimo and don't remember them behaving this badly at this age. Please, any help would be much appreciated as we are at our breaking points. We have of course been training him from day one, but the barking and mouthing has gotten worse in the past 2 months, during what we know is the height of "dog puberty", but any advice would be extremely helpful to us! Thanks so much!