Reggies Parents
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Hi all,
Just in case anyone here hasn't read my post in the members only section, here is an overview...
Reggie is now 9 months old, and was neutered on Thursday. Even though both testicles were retained we had planned to wait a little longer but his male behaviours were getting ridiculous, and really hard to deal with.
Behaviour wise, I know it can take anything from 4 to 8 weeks, sometimes longer, for the testosterone to come out of his system, and to start seeing any changes. And believe me, we were NOT expecting it to be a miracle cure and to have the perfect pulp afterwards.
But what I was not expecting is for his behaviour to have got so much worse.
Thursday he mostly slept, Friday was still a bit lethargic and mopey. Since Saturday it seems every 10 to 15 minutes he's just trying to attack me.
He's OK when he wakes up, but won't come over for his morning cuddles anymore. During the afternoon, he's not too bad. After his nap, he is pretty much awful in the evening. If I leave him alone for 2 seconds he starts doing something he knows he shouldn't, like chewing the furniture. I tell him no, and redirect to his bones or antlers or horns, and then he runs at me snarling and snapping, if I don't move out of the way quickly enough he bites my legs, and aims for the thigh or inside of knee.
I try to stay calm, walk over to his crate and epget him in for time out, but he is biting me the whole way.
As soon as I let him out the process starts again.
Sunday and today its been worse, because its completely unprovoked. I was sat on the sofa, and he was quietly chewing his horn on the other side. All of a sudden he ran over at me, and even though I was watching him from the corner of my eye, I couldn't move quickly enough and he bit my elbow really hard. I didn't need to fake the loud 'ouch', but then as I stood up to walk away he flew off the sofa at me, at waist height (which is scary when your pregnant), teeth bared and it was only because I jumped out of the way that he caught my top and not my arm. My top now has holes in it because he wouldn't let go and as he dropped to the floor, it ripped.
He doesn't do this to Kev, just me. And this behaviour is a lot less when Kev is here, but he's had to work a lot the past few days.
He has had his check up at the vets and they say he is fine, healing really well. They also gave him a full check up while he was under anaesthetic and although he does have an elongated soft palate, and some mild (their words) entropian, there is nothing that would be causing enough pain to explain this behaviour.
I have taken the advice of [MENTION=15364]oscarmayer[/MENTION] from the other thread and started training one reliable command (sit), over and over again.
We are also looking for local reputable behaviourists but all the advice they are giving is to wait at least 4 weeks after the op before assessing his behaviour. But this is getting me worried now, as although some of this is nipping (which still hurts!), some of it is a lot more than that.
Any help gratefully appreciated, as always!!
Edit - and oh my god the barking is non stop!!! I can't even leave him alone long enough to have a pee!
Just in case anyone here hasn't read my post in the members only section, here is an overview...
Reggie is now 9 months old, and was neutered on Thursday. Even though both testicles were retained we had planned to wait a little longer but his male behaviours were getting ridiculous, and really hard to deal with.
Behaviour wise, I know it can take anything from 4 to 8 weeks, sometimes longer, for the testosterone to come out of his system, and to start seeing any changes. And believe me, we were NOT expecting it to be a miracle cure and to have the perfect pulp afterwards.
But what I was not expecting is for his behaviour to have got so much worse.
Thursday he mostly slept, Friday was still a bit lethargic and mopey. Since Saturday it seems every 10 to 15 minutes he's just trying to attack me.
He's OK when he wakes up, but won't come over for his morning cuddles anymore. During the afternoon, he's not too bad. After his nap, he is pretty much awful in the evening. If I leave him alone for 2 seconds he starts doing something he knows he shouldn't, like chewing the furniture. I tell him no, and redirect to his bones or antlers or horns, and then he runs at me snarling and snapping, if I don't move out of the way quickly enough he bites my legs, and aims for the thigh or inside of knee.
I try to stay calm, walk over to his crate and epget him in for time out, but he is biting me the whole way.
As soon as I let him out the process starts again.
Sunday and today its been worse, because its completely unprovoked. I was sat on the sofa, and he was quietly chewing his horn on the other side. All of a sudden he ran over at me, and even though I was watching him from the corner of my eye, I couldn't move quickly enough and he bit my elbow really hard. I didn't need to fake the loud 'ouch', but then as I stood up to walk away he flew off the sofa at me, at waist height (which is scary when your pregnant), teeth bared and it was only because I jumped out of the way that he caught my top and not my arm. My top now has holes in it because he wouldn't let go and as he dropped to the floor, it ripped.
He doesn't do this to Kev, just me. And this behaviour is a lot less when Kev is here, but he's had to work a lot the past few days.
He has had his check up at the vets and they say he is fine, healing really well. They also gave him a full check up while he was under anaesthetic and although he does have an elongated soft palate, and some mild (their words) entropian, there is nothing that would be causing enough pain to explain this behaviour.
I have taken the advice of [MENTION=15364]oscarmayer[/MENTION] from the other thread and started training one reliable command (sit), over and over again.
We are also looking for local reputable behaviourists but all the advice they are giving is to wait at least 4 weeks after the op before assessing his behaviour. But this is getting me worried now, as although some of this is nipping (which still hurts!), some of it is a lot more than that.
Any help gratefully appreciated, as always!!
Edit - and oh my god the barking is non stop!!! I can't even leave him alone long enough to have a pee!
[MENTION=16280]Hankster[/MENTION] - Thanks Jill! Motherly luvvin always appreciated!
