Teenage Phase

[Calliesmom]

She's so beautiful! I know how hard it is to leave your baby all day. Even with DH at home, I know Layla especially wishes I were around. Some days, I can see she's asking, "Mom, can I go to work with you tomorrow?" So tomorrow, I'm bringing her with me!

jealous

 

[take4roll10]

Well, it's been 4 months of the "teenage phase." Bailey is now 10 1/2 months old and I think she is finally starting to phase out of being a teenager.

A lot of her old puppy habits crept back up and then would phase out in a week or so. Like picking up everything off the floor when we take a walk. She did this when she was a really young and then stopped at about 6 months old. She started doing this again around 9 months old, but she seems to have gotten over that habit about two weeks ago.

We haven't had potty accidents in a while. Pheww thank goodness.

She is also starting to understand my schedule and get with the program. She doesn't run around like a crazy dog when I'm eating dinner. She lays down, relaxes and waits till I'm done. She doesn't have an insane amount of energy as soon as she wakes up anymore. Actually when my alarm goes off, she doesn't even want to get up, but follows me downstairs and passes out in the kitchen. Some mornings she even too tired to out and potty. At night, she doesn't go crazy and ring the bell a thousand times because she's not tired. She now just goes to sleep.

But, don't be mistaken, she still has a lot of energy and is always up for playing and running around. She still has a ton of puppy quirks and I still do not trust her alone. She will still go through the garbage and loves to steal shoes and prance around the house with them. She still has plenty of puppy behavior left in her, but I think she is starting to calm down a little bit.

 

[Toffee's Mom]

Well, it's been 4 months of the "teenage phase." Bailey is now 10 1/2 months old and I think she is finally starting to phase out of being a teenager.

A lot of her old puppy habits crept back up and then would phase out in a week or so. Like picking up everything off the floor when we take a walk. She did this when she was a really young and then stopped at about 6 months old. She started doing this again around 9 months old, but she seems to have gotten over that habit about two weeks ago.

We haven't had potty accidents in a while. Pheww thank goodness.

She is also starting to understand my schedule and get with the program. She doesn't run around like a crazy dog when I'm eating dinner. She lays down, relaxes and waits till I'm done. She doesn't have an insane amount of energy as soon as she wakes up anymore. Actually when my alarm goes off, she doesn't even want to get up, but follows me downstairs and passes out in the kitchen. Some mornings she even too tired to out and potty. At night, she doesn't go crazy and ring the bell a thousand times because she's not tired. She now just goes to sleep.

But, don't be mistaken, she still has a lot of energy and is always up for playing and running around. She still has a ton of puppy quirks and I still do not trust her alone. She will still go through the garbage and loves to steal shoes and prance around the house with them. She still has plenty of puppy behavior left in her, but I think she is starting to calm down a little bit.

haha
AMEN, SISTER
Although I enjoyed the bell ringing episodes a lot LOL

 

[Justicemom]

Well, it's been 4 months of the "teenage phase." Bailey is now 10 1/2 months old and I think she is finally starting to phase out of being a teenager.

A lot of her old puppy habits crept back up and then would phase out in a week or so. Like picking up everything off the floor when we take a walk. She did this when she was a really young and then stopped at about 6 months old. She started doing this again around 9 months old, but she seems to have gotten over that habit about two weeks ago.

We haven't had potty accidents in a while. Pheww thank goodness.

She is also starting to understand my schedule and get with the program. She doesn't run around like a crazy dog when I'm eating dinner. She lays down, relaxes and waits till I'm done. She doesn't have an insane amount of energy as soon as she wakes up anymore. Actually when my alarm goes off, she doesn't even want to get up, but follows me downstairs and passes out in the kitchen. Some mornings she even too tired to out and potty. At night, she doesn't go crazy and ring the bell a thousand times because she's not tired. She now just goes to sleep.

But, don't be mistaken, she still has a lot of energy and is always up for playing and running around. She still has a ton of puppy quirks and I still do not trust her alone. She will still go through the garbage and loves to steal shoes and prance around the house with them. She still has plenty of puppy behavior left in her, but I think she is starting to calm down a little bit.

Yippee, I remember Ember calming down at that age. Diva took until about 14 months. Justice was such a good puppy , he didn't have real teenage phase but he did have a macho man phase at about 2 yrs-2.5 yrs

 

[Caro]

Yippee, I remember Ember calming down at that age. Diva took until about 14 months. Justice was such a good puppy , he didn't have real teenage phase but he did have a macho man phase at about 2 yrs-2.5 yrs

So its not just me. Deska seems to want to be the macho boy - silly fluffy little dog! Likes to pretend he is walking by himself (as long as he can still see me), doesnt think he should walk on the leash, growls and barks at scary things (his idea of scary not mine), and will go up to groups of adult human males and want to 'hang' with them! Honestly, these phases dogs go through.

 

[OntarioSheltie]

Well, it's been 4 months of the "teenage phase." Bailey is now 10 1/2 months old and I think she is finally starting to phase out of being a teenager.

A lot of her old puppy habits crept back up and then would phase out in a week or so. Like picking up everything off the floor when we take a walk. She did this when she was a really young and then stopped at about 6 months old. She started doing this again around 9 months old, but she seems to have gotten over that habit about two weeks ago.

We haven't had potty accidents in a while. Pheww thank goodness.

She is also starting to understand my schedule and get with the program. She doesn't run around like a crazy dog when I'm eating dinner. She lays down, relaxes and waits till I'm done. She doesn't have an insane amount of energy as soon as she wakes up anymore. Actually when my alarm goes off, she doesn't even want to get up, but follows me downstairs and passes out in the kitchen. Some mornings she even too tired to out and potty. At night, she doesn't go crazy and ring the bell a thousand times because she's not tired. She now just goes to sleep.

But, don't be mistaken, she still has a lot of energy and is always up for playing and running around. She still has a ton of puppy quirks and I still do not trust her alone. She will still go through the garbage and loves to steal shoes and prance around the house with them. She still has plenty of puppy behavior left in her, but I think she is starting to calm down a little bit.

Thanks for the reminder that Ginny will grow out of it some time. She's almost 9 months old and at times I consider handing her to the next person who walks by our house

She is improving though.

Sadie took a good year to completely grow out of this phase.

 

[Tracy]

Teenage Behavior

Oh how I can commiserate with all of you furparents of our teenageres. My Indie is just about 10 month of age and has been jsut crazy. I walk him, and play him a lot to try and wear him out so he is a little better but last night he had the puppy zoomies so bad. my DH and I just sat and laughed at him We were almost in tears because he was acting so puppy crazy. We too had some "accidents--on purpose" in the house but that seems to have stopped***fingers crossed***. Indie explains his actions to his other sheltie fur friends on the forum in their teenage years as "having urges that I just can't help"....nice try pupper!!!