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Growling

Posted by:  Becki
Category:   Aggression
Posted on:  December 30, 2001 at 23:47:27

Question:

My 2 year old jrt has recently started to growl whenever we distrub him sleeping on the couch and various other times. He used to growl at us only if we got too close to him when he was chewing his bone but I figured all dogs do this as it is his bone. Now it seems to be happening more often. I want to deal with this before it gets out of hand. How do you show him this is not acceptable?? Someone suggested we spray water in his face everytime he growls at us. Any suggestions???