Hi everybody, this is my first post and I'll try to keep it brief. My wife and I bought our new and first Chi pup from a breeder when he was four months old, we have had him now for about a month, the breeder reckoned he will be quite small when fully grown, and bordering on a tea cup size, he is blue fawn in colour, with a chocolate nose and an apple dome head...a real little cutie, we named him Frankie btw.
My wife is with him most times during the day, and he rarely leaves her side, in fact he follows her everywhere, which is nice to see...he seems a bright little fellow and is quickly learning the house training process, the problem we have, is the way Frankie reacts toward our Son, who is twenty two and loves animals, and he, like myself, is out working during the day, so here's the problem we have , if Frankie is in a room with my wife and our Son walks in, he starts to bark and growl at him, quite aggressively I might ad, there are only the three of us live in the house btw, and of course, Frankie makes four.
But if our Son then picks him up, he's fine, sometimes a little edgy, but he will curl up and go to sleep on his knee, but that's never voluntarily on Frankie's part, our son always has to pick him up and take him to where he is sitting.
My guess is that Frankie is being protective toward my wife, and if that is the case, why is he just being like this with our Son, and what can we do to stop him behaving like this?
Thanks in advance.
My wife is with him most times during the day, and he rarely leaves her side, in fact he follows her everywhere, which is nice to see...he seems a bright little fellow and is quickly learning the house training process, the problem we have, is the way Frankie reacts toward our Son, who is twenty two and loves animals, and he, like myself, is out working during the day, so here's the problem we have , if Frankie is in a room with my wife and our Son walks in, he starts to bark and growl at him, quite aggressively I might ad, there are only the three of us live in the house btw, and of course, Frankie makes four.
But if our Son then picks him up, he's fine, sometimes a little edgy, but he will curl up and go to sleep on his knee, but that's never voluntarily on Frankie's part, our son always has to pick him up and take him to where he is sitting.
My guess is that Frankie is being protective toward my wife, and if that is the case, why is he just being like this with our Son, and what can we do to stop him behaving like this?
Thanks in advance.