a few wee issues

[Justontime]

You can't really blame the cats for lashing out, it is what cats do. She will learn quickly and they will become friends

[laranurse]

thanks to everyone who replied to my thread further incident last night with skye and my daughter skye was sitting next to me my daughter came home and gave skye a pat she started growling and showing teeth again ...my daughter is getting quite upset over this as she has never struck the dog or anything in fact she is extemely gentle and good with all animals and has been since a very young child and when i say skye no thats when she takes herself to her crate when she behaves in this way we have been ignoring her for a time sorta like chill out time not really sure if i am doing right or wrong but i feel this must be nipped in the bud before she is much older she appears to know what she is doing is wrong which is the strange part of all this in all other aspects she if fine vet cant find any medical reason and she was an angel when being examined

[Bill]

I just noticed something that really concerns me. This dog is still a puppy. 18 week old puppies just aren't aggressive. Either you are misinterpeting her normal puppy play behavior as aggression or you have a real problem. Back in my days as a professional trainer, I had many calls from potential clients about their "aggressive" puppies only to find puppies who were showing normal puppy play that was being wrongly interpeted as aggression. Showing teeth while growling is not normally a part of puppy play. If you still think she is being aggressive and not just soliciting play, I would get her to a vet immediately to rule out any physical problem as the cause for aggression and if none is found, contact a CERTIFIED behaviorist immediately to get her evaluated. If you have an 18 week old puppy who is truly aggressive, it will be more than you can handle by yourself.