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Maggie is fairly calm during the day but in the evenings she is like a wild banchee lol

She bites and jumps on every one. She is most hyper about 8-10 pm right as we are trying to wind down (of course).

Is that pretty typical for a golden puppy?

Here's a new pic of my little wild woman and her new favorite toy. It has crinkly sounding plastic on the inside so she thinks she has died and gone to heaven lol

We just love her :)
 

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Tripp has two wild periods, one in the morning and one at night, around 7 or so. He zooms around the living room, doing circles around the coffee table, on the couch, on a chair and leaping to bite Tugg in the face on every circle. Then he reverses direction and goes the other way. This morning he decided to leap onto the coffee table and skittered across it till he jumped on the couch. Play was ended then. It's kind of amusing, but he is 5 months old now, and probably 45 pounds or so, and when he and Tugg who is probably 65 pounds are chasing each other, it becomes pretty chaotic. And not fun when he decided to jump into your lap on one of his loops.
 
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Now that you mention it, she's pretty wild first thing in the morning too lol she wakes up at 5 and is very playful and mouthy but of course I'm dragging at that hour of the morning. She's a lot of work!

Best thing I can do to tire her out is fetch. We don't have another pup right now for her to play with. She loves fetch and running but we also have hardwood floors and she's pretty clumsy. She's learning her limits running on them though!
 
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Maggie is fairly calm during the day but in the evenings she is like a wild banchee lol

She bites and jumps on every one. She is most hyper about 8-10 pm right as we are trying to wind down (of course).

Is that pretty typical for a golden puppy?

Here's a new pic of my little wild woman and her new favorite toy. It has crinkly sounding plastic on the inside so she thinks she has died and gone to heaven lol

We just love her :)

I have a three month old sweet boy who becomes Piranha Puppy from 7-9 every night. Someone has been with him 24/7 every single day and he's had plenty of mental and physical exercise, so that's not it. I think it is just normal puppy crazies - like a toddler who really needs a nap at the end of the day, but neither parent or child really want him to have one at that time! I've no answers, really, but we have a puppy Kong tire that I freeze a variety of lo cal stuff in and give it to him at 7:00 every night (the puppy classic shape kong hasn't worked too well for us). That kills about 30 minutes. We try to play tug a war until he gets himself too worked up and can't control his bites. Fetch games aren't a good option at this time of night for us - ends up a big bitey session! Sometimes a little training on stuff he already knows well - sit, down, leave it, kennel up, free (come out of your crate) helps - or at least kills time until bed. Sometimes a couple minutes of crate time will buy us 10-15 minutes of calm puppy when he comes out. Usually at 9:00, he settles down and naps, and we leave him alone until 10:00 for one more outside trip and then bed. You and I (and my poor arm for sure!) both hope our pups grow out of this crazy, wild time soon - but it sounds pretty normal.
 
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Oh, we have those crazy 5-10 min almost every night. Toby gets wild, literally bounces off the walls, jumps, bites, runs around in circles. I'm concerned about it - we have hardwood/tile all around, it's kinda slippery. Toby looses control and bumps into furniture/sliding glass door, etc.
I usually get Kong and lock him up in the crate until he calms down. Maybe it's wrong, but I'm seriously afraid that he can get injured flying across the room.
 
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Oh, we have those crazy 5-10 min almost every night. Toby gets wild, literally bounces off the walls, jumps, bites, running around in circles. I'm concerned about it - we have hardwood/tile all around, it's kinda slippery. Toby looses control and bumps into furniture/sliding glass door, etc.
I usually get Kong and lock him up in the crate until he calms down. Maybe it's wrong, but I'm seriously afraid that he can get injured flying across the room.
Sounds like zoomies. I can see with having hardwood floors concerns you. But just try to enjoy them and get out of the way. Lol.
 
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