I am at my wits end with my Golden's behavior for the last min the or so. I go to bed feeling defeated every night and dreading the next morning. She is about to turn 1 in 2 weeks, and can be sweet as pie but lately her behavior has been horrible. My biggest struggle is she doesn't listen. She's been to puppy class, she knows the commands and will do them when we are training but she will not do them in real situations. She won't come when called, she bites at your hands so you will play if you get up and walk away she jumps on you and will grab your arm with her mouth and try to pull you down. When we go for walks she lays flat on the ground and refuses to get up if I don't let her do what she wants (like eat crap off the sidewalk). She's 70 pounds and I can't lift her. If I try to pull her up she snaps at me. I turn my back and she just lays there. One time I stood there for 40 mins and she had no intention of getting up. I try treats but she's not interested - she is not food motivated at all. It's a struggle to.get her to eat at all. She does the same drop and not get up when it's time to go in her crate for bed time or when I leave. I don't have time to allow 45 mins to fight her to get up every time I need to leave and she cannot have free reign of the house. I work part time so she's not in the crate all day. She gets plenty of exercise, we play and run in the yard, we go for 3-4 walks a day, etc.
Vet says she's healthy (other than a staph infection that cleared a few weeks ago), and she's been spayed. She only does this for me, trainers, other people etc she is golden and does anything they say so people think I'm crazy when I say she doesn't do it for me.
Any suggestions? After she outgrew her chewing everything puppy stage she was such a sweet girl, I don't understand why she's behaving this way.
Vet says she's healthy (other than a staph infection that cleared a few weeks ago), and she's been spayed. She only does this for me, trainers, other people etc she is golden and does anything they say so people think I'm crazy when I say she doesn't do it for me.
Any suggestions? After she outgrew her chewing everything puppy stage she was such a sweet girl, I don't understand why she's behaving this way.