At what age are puppies the naughtiest?
Ludwig Batz
2025-08-24 03:44:08
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Adolescence is a time when a dog is re-evaluating everything and everyone in their life and starts to look at the world with the eyes of an adult and not as a puppy. This is the time when a lack of adequate and appropriate dog socialisation and habituation can become an issue, and those dogs that have missed out on this can start to show behaviour problems associated with fear. Your pup might be ignoring your recall training cues in their teenage phase. Bad experiences now can go on to shape how they view the world and how they behave in the future. Adolescence is a time when a dog is re-evaluating everything and everyone in their life. This also reminds them of what is rewarding about recalls, improves their behaviour, and avoids them from practicing behaviours you don’t like. While this might all feel like a step back in your training, you will find that by taking this approach, your dog will come out the other side of adolescence well-behaved and with their training skills – and your relationship – intact.
Jeremie VonRueden
2025-08-13 21:12:58
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Puppies are often considered to be at their most naughty between 8-9 months of age. My puppy is 4 months. I have seen so many say it’s 8-9 months but I cannot imagine him getting worse. He’s a good boy sometimes but he’s chewing on everything including people. He even takes the toilet brush to his bed when the door is open. The occasional peeing inside destroying everything in his path is just normal puppy stuff.
Dell Swaniawski
2025-08-06 06:21:58
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Puppy training 4–7 months aged pups should start now as they already have a fully developed adult brain. They are getting more adventurous and don’t want to come back when they are called, they are starting to ignore their owners – a lot. Things that were cute when they were little are no longer cute and in fact are quite destructive and very naughty. Around the 4-5 month age pups get quite naughty, they have worked you out by now and know how to get around you and they begin to ignore your instructions. At first it can seem funny but it soon wears thin. You’ll do some training along the way, but now he’s starting to get just a bit too naughty and you’re not quite sure how to handle it. It only gets worse the longer you leave it.
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