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Pup with dominant traits and what do you do if your puppy growls at you?

Susannahmia · 2011-06-07 22:21:52

We just adopted a 12 week old Bichon Friese X Jack Russell and he is already displaying some dominant traits. We have had him 3 days. He sometimes growls at my older (very submissive) Jack Russell bitch if it is taking a toy etc. That I didn't mind because I thought it was good that he was standing up for itself and in…

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#32 09-06-2011 08:50PM

Susannahmia

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We brought the puppy to the vet earlier because we noticed he was scratching his ear a lot and whimpering.

Turns out he has a really bad inner ear infection.:( Poor little man must have been in a lot of pain for a while but he wasn't showing it.

I'm guessing a lot of the "crankiness" I've been seeing is due to the pain he was in with his ear.

He's all dosed up now with (€74 worth of :eek:) drops, antibiotics and prednisolone.

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