Hello again! Our 14 week old golden/berner is very friendly and loves everything and everyone. Out in the wild she’s pretty polite and very sweet when meeting people.
At home it’s like a different dog though. Day to day she already is a lot more hyper in the house even with a lot of mental stimulation and the appropriate amount of physical exercise. But when new guests come over it gets amped up to max capacity lol. Tonight our guests had dogs and this made it way more intense since they don’t seem to really have the same play style and she was getting frustrated they wouldn’t play with her.
I had her in the crate when they originally all got here and they met outside in the yard. Then we tried just having a lead on her in the house that we could catch onto if she got too crazy for them. The first part she eventually calmed down and chewed on a cow ear. But this second time out of the crate is the witching out and I am currently sitting on the floor thinking how I can do this differently so she feels calmer, because this is intense.
Our house has a lot of people coming in and out since we have a lot of friends in the area. I want to know what I can do to help her settle. We are teaching her place but she’s 14 weeks old and her attention span is not there yet.
Any tips on what I can do? Heads up she is not food motivated at all, and our guests are staying here tonight so they’ll be here till tomorrow morning.
submitted by /u/howdybarber
[link] [comments]