experienced GSD owner needs help

[shepherdmom]

Thanks for the links. She is 14 month old from a search and resuce breeder. She washed out of training because she likes to chase small fuzzies. (i.e. cats etc.) She was with the trainer for 7 months. The rest of the time she was with the breeder. (The breeder is someone, who we have gotten dogs from before) Every single one of her dogs has been friendly, loving and great pet dogs. My vet loves them. They have the best hips she says she has ever seen on shepherds. (we have only gotten puppies from her before and this was kind of an odd turn of events) When our other dog passed on I asked to use her as a reference for a Rescue Place in Las Vegas where we had been looking. She said she had a dog we could rescue out of her lines. This is the great grand niece to my 9 year old baby so I was very interested. When my daughter went on winter break I picked her up and then swung down to Phoenix to go get the dog. (a good 14 hour drive from where we live) I think that was the first mistake. If my husband could have come with us and met her on her home turff things might have been better. We spent a couple of days bonding with her then brough her on the long car ride home. Our other problem is our older dog won't take dominate. She comes from a home with 8 dogs and knows pack rules. It is confusing and upsetting to her that our old guy is not pack leader. Unfortunately our dominate dog was the one that passed on. Our second mistake was that we have been misreading her signals. It's been a long time since I've had a dog this young and the bark growl that we are concerned about may be her trying to communicate with us. She is very loving with me and my daughter but we are just not sure what the bark growl thing with my husband is all about. I also know that she must be hungry. We brought a bag of her dog food back with us but she is uninterested in it. We have tried mixing it with the science diet we feed but that doesn't interest her either. I have gotten her to eat a little by putting bacon greese on the food and also feeding her turkey breast. Which actually we've had my husband doing in an effort to bond with her. At this point I'm not sure who is training who. I think she is training us. We have 5 acres so we take her outside and she loves her ball so we've been making sure she gets plenty of exercise. At this point I'm just not sure what else to do for her. We want to let her out to be part of the family but as long and she is bark/growling my husband we are afraid to take the chance.

[shepherdmom]

Ok I got a video. Not sure how to post it tho.

[chelle]

Originally Posted by shepherdmom

Ok I got a video. Not sure how to post it tho.

Upload to your youtube account.. or start a youtube account if you don't have one.

Once it is there, get it playing and just copy and paste the addy from the title bar of the browser directly into your post. I've had some trouble here myself... but I've found this is the easiest way to do it.