Question:
Our Maltipoo, Mia, is 14 months old. She is cuddly, playful and loving, but there are two things we need help with:
1) She bites and chews her bed, towels and any fabric that she can get into. She swallows the bits and pieces, and they don't seem to bother her. But we don't understand why she does it and would like it to stop.
2) She is excitable and barks at anything and anyone she sees outside. She sometimes seems to imagine things that aren't really there. When we have visitors, she gets excited, barks, and attacks their feet.
L.U.E., Montgomery County, Md Jul 05, 2010
Answer:
The genetic combination of Maltese terrier and French poodle has created a cross-cultural canine consciousness that is a common quality, if not affliction, of "designer" dogs like yours.
Your dog is probably teething. Give safe chew toys, and sign up for basic dog-school training so she can learn self-control and develop internal inhibition and good manners. On a side note, I am disgusted that hundreds of Chihuahuas and other small arm-and-basket lap dogs have been shipped to the East Coast from California animal shelters flooded with them because they didn't work out as decorative accessories that adorn some popular celebrities.
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