After some advice/Maybe just venting!
Last year we got a Cockalier (Cockaspaniel/Cavalier mix). We tried to do everything as best we could, reading up on how to get the foundations right, taking her to puppy and adolescent dog classes as well as breed specific training sessions.
In a lot of ways she's been brilliant, she took to toilet training straight away and we never had issues apart from the usual puppy accidents in the first few weeks and she's never been disctructive.
She's very obedient, knowing loads of commands now and she's sweet a lot of the time however there are a few issues of concern.
She's quite reactive to sound currently, if she hears something outside or elsewhere on the house she barks a lot at it. She does a lot of attention barking if we are sitting up to eat or cooking. She has also shown signs of resource guarding against other dogs when they visit the house so we are managing that.
Most concerning is she has started to growl in the evenings when she's approached in her bed or the sofa or if she thinks we are going to pick her up. Not very aggressive growling with teeth etc. but a quite low level grumble.
She's crate trained and if we ask her to go into her crate she's right in there with no issue, but I'm worried that she seems to have started getting a bit grumpy in the evenings and it's at risk of escalating which in turn make us anxious.
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