[Remo]

Did you have the opportunity to meet the mother of your pup? If so, was she friendly, or at least tolerant of people?

The reason that I ask is because once our rescue took in an junkyard dog who had a litter of pups. The mother attacked one of our volunteers who had been taking care of her. One of her puppies, at three weeks old, actually growled and believe me, he meant it, at the vet when getting wormed. Pups do get personality traits from their parents.

I have seen LOTS of puppies over the years, but this was the first time that I had ever witnessed that behavior. My vet said the same thing - he has been practicing long enough to have seen tons of puppies and he had never seen one react like that one did. It is really creepy seeing something so fuzzy and cute as a three week old GSD pup acting like that one did.