My 5 month old working line Collie is a happy energetic, confident little guy. He's also extremely sensitive to noise and he has been known to get very obnoxious and bitey at the vet's when he was quite ill. Today the poor guy got so scared of this really random noise in the living room (boardgame tiles being pushed around) that I had to take him out of the room crying and lunging. After some calm down time with me in a quiet room, I went to put him down for a nap in his crate (having to cross the living room for that again) but he completely freaked out and wriggled, snapped, growled and frantically tried to bite drawing some blood as I was trying to restrain him.
This reaction is clearly coming from a place of fear. I could have handled it better as well but it all happened so quickly. Would you sound the alarm and call in the behaviourist cavalerie or is this puppy/adolescent fear phase stuff?
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