● "My 5 month old dog isn’t used to me yet."
THAT is supposed to be your MAIN QUESTION, yet it ASKS us nothing. And you KNEW that - it wasn't YOU that put a ? at the end, it was one of Y!A's poorer bits of programming that adds a ? unless the very last character already is one.
Indeed, there is NOT ONE QUESTION anywhere in your 2 "Question" areas.
And WHY did you immediately ask it again? It cost you 5 points - and no-one has bothered to answer it.
Of your 11 questions, 8 are a week or more old, so should have had a Best Answer chosen (which regains you 3 of the 5 points it cost you to ask it, as well as encouraging people to try to help you), or have been deleted if they gave gone a fortnight or more with no sensible attempt to help you (that costs YOU points, but helps remind you to, before starting to type a question, PLAN your question and the details that readers will need in order to give a HELPFUL answer).
But only your very first question has had a Best Answer awarded by you. And until Y!A's owner (which happens to be Verizon) discovers that the system Y!A used 8 years ago was BETTER than what Marissa Meyer's team and then Tim Armstrong's team and now K. Guru Gowrappan's team have produced in the last 6± years only YOU can choose the Best Answera or Delete your questions (WE used to be able to vote to choose the Best Answers for questions that the Asker had ignored for a week or more).
● "When I come home from school she barks and growls. And if I go over to pet her she hides behind my mom and find behind the couch shaking. Any tips to get my dog used to me or any idea of what this could be. She’s been in the house for 3 weeks."
You haven't given us the IMPORTANT information.
There are TWO obvious questions right from the start.
One is why & by whom THIS pup was chosen at 3 months old - THAT happens to be the WORST time to re-home a pup, as its life stage then moves from the "curious-&-confident" second stage to the "need routine & security' stage for a month or more. If a pup can't be rehomed while 7 through 10 weeks old, it should have stayed with the breeder until it was at least 4 months old. Another problem is that, as a 14 years-old, YOU are away from home too long each school day. Your age also adds the problems that (a) YOU cannot feed a young pup no further apart than 8 hours, cannot drive yourself & Pup to a well respected training club or group for about a year starting when Pup is 18-22 weeks old where YOU+Pup get observed inter-acting then YOU get COACHED to, one flaw at a time, improve you awareness, body-language, timing & use of the leash and praise & reward and voice tones. plus (b) in about 4 years you are likely to need to leave home to study - which means boarding or renting, but few landlords have dog-fenced properties nor accept dogs in the flat or house, and you won't have any worthwhile income for those 4+ (depending on the course you are studying).
Like [Jojo] (who, like me, has long experience with the world's most adaptable breed of dogs!) I need INFORMATION!
So read my 💥 questions, work out your answers, then
☆ click the [Edit] under your question,
☆ click the [Add Update] that will pop up,
☆ then type your numbered answers into the new field that appears.
As soon as you finish and have proofread+corrected your answers,
☆ clicking [Submit] or [Save] will "glue" your responses to the bottom of the 2 existing bits.
💥Q1: What BREED or breeds is this 4-months bỉtch? WHY was SHE chosen - was her character curious & confident at that time? WHO chose her? Has that person previously had any pup that he/she trained and that lived until old age (which varies from 6 to 18 years, depending on the breed and the way it is cared for)?
💥Q2: Was she got from a kennel-club-registered dedicated breeder with no more than 4 or 5 pooches? Or from a puppy-miller with dozens of pooches - or from a pet shop (they get their stock from puppy millers)? Or from the City Pound? Or from a dog-rescue organisation such as the SPCA or HSUS?
💥Q3: WHAT is the clock-time when you shut the front door to head for school, and WHAT is the clock-time when you re-open it after returning from school? WHERE is Pup during those hours - loose in the house with your mother who stays home? - alone in a crate in the house? - alone in an exercise pen or shed? - chained in the yard?
💥Q4: What are the careers you are likely to choose between to study for? Are your parents keen to keep this pooch while you are living near a university (where you will NOT have time to adequately look after a dog, even if you can find an affordable suitable place to rent - what isn't study time will be occupied by cultural experiences, athletic activities, dating experiences, and parties that you might or might not "survive"), taking a year off to explore your nation or "the world" & relax after graduation, and then moving frequently to get the best-paid career your qualifications can gain you?
While awaiting your update, I point out that a cowardly/craven dog is NOT going to protect YOU or your mother. but it IS very likely to bite your friends and visitors whenever it feels crowded and can see no way to escape, so is left with only the first part of the "FIGHT or FLIGHT" reaction.
Also that 3 weeks SHOULD have been enough for the pup to accept that you are part of its pack of humans, even though your mother is the alpha/leader-&-best of the pack. So there are things YOU are doing that need to be changed. But we can't see your attitude & behaviour, can't hear the noises you make. So THAT aspect has to be sorted out by your family.
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😛 To discuss GSDs, join some groups such as
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GSD_Friendly/info
by sending an e-mail about yourself to the Subscribe address on that page.
The people in them KNOW about GSDs. Plus you can include several actual photos in your posts.
To find other groups or breeds, type the breed-name into the top field of
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir
then choose a couple of groups to Join - use the group's
Message History
on its /info page to make sure that it still has members who are ACTIVE.
😛 Also join
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/The_GSD_Source/info
so that you can easily look up all sorts of information about dogs, especially GSDs. It is an "encyclopaedia" group (to which members can ask for new sources to be added), not a discussion group.
Kreaky Kiwi - first pup in 1950; GSD breeder & trainer as of 1968