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[quote=Anonymous]My wife rescued a cockapoo when it was 4 years old. The dog had been neglected, untrained, and possibly mildly abused (she's head-shy to this day with strangers). We trained her (I worked from home and ran home on lunch hours for about a month) and she has been wonderful and happy. Our dog is now 11. Over the last month, DW and I have noticed she growls. It used to be that she would easily (happily) go 4 or 5 months without ANY situation coming up that made her growl. Sometimes when we were playing tug of war with one of her toys, but that was a play-growl. Now, she's growling a few times a day. My SIL (who the dog LOVES) was holding her a few nights ago, and apropos of nothing, the dog growled. She seemed happy in her arms. Then I took her for a walk, she had something in her mouth, and as I always do, I pulled it out (tree bark) and the dog growled at me. I pushed the bark away with my foot so our dog wouldn't eat it, and she growled again. That same night we had guests over and our dog kept begging for food, and I saw her growl. It seems like she is getting cranky in her older age of 11. Any dog trainers here who can help? I want to make sure the old gal is happy. Also, I want to make sure this growling is not a precursor to biting. We are going out of town for half a month at the start of May, and want to feel confident that our dogsitter will be safe with our dog, and that our dog won't bite any humans or dogs while we're gone (the dogsitter will stay at our house, and we've done this many times in the past - they love each other). If there's any training we can give our dog to encourage her to be happy and not want to growl (I don't want to punish her for growling itself - seems like that'd be the same as punishing a child for crying), I would really appreciate knowing about it. Thanks.[/quote]
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