Adelya21
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Me and my husband own one cavalier a boy 8 months old and we are obsessed with him! My husband who was the one who initially was reluctant to get any dogs now cant imagine life without him and says you will always be our 1st child lol. However, I am not sure how our dog will be when we do have children. we are nervous he will be too jealous! are there tell tale signs that a dog may be jealous in the future? We dont plan on having a child for another maybe 1.5yrs. But our pup sleeps in the bed with us and he needs to be around one of us most of the time. He doesnt have separation anxiety because when we do leave him alone at home which isnt very often at all he will cry for 2 mins then just lay in his crate and look sad. and then when we get home he is crazy excited jumps all over kisses whimpers like he is hyperventilating lol. I dont know if we baby him too much and that as a result we could potentially make him a jealous dog?
just to note he gets crazy excited when someone comes to our home. he will go nuts and hyperventilate if he cant get to that person and smell them and kiss them etc. so once when we had a newborn and her mom over he literally wanted to smell that baby and mom asap! he would jump on moms legs then he finally calmed down after he at least could smell the mom. he sat quietly on my lap. he doesnt get like this when he enters other people's homes or when we take him on walks just when someone comes to our home. so even when the mailman comes he gets excited and want to be there when he comes so I just put him in a different room and he barks like there is no tomorrow.
I guess my question now became two fold. are there tell tale signs of a potential jealous cav and is the behavior of him getting overly excited with people something I should try to change now? or should I not bother because its too late since he is 8 months?? Does anyone else's dog do this??
just to note he gets crazy excited when someone comes to our home. he will go nuts and hyperventilate if he cant get to that person and smell them and kiss them etc. so once when we had a newborn and her mom over he literally wanted to smell that baby and mom asap! he would jump on moms legs then he finally calmed down after he at least could smell the mom. he sat quietly on my lap. he doesnt get like this when he enters other people's homes or when we take him on walks just when someone comes to our home. so even when the mailman comes he gets excited and want to be there when he comes so I just put him in a different room and he barks like there is no tomorrow.
I guess my question now became two fold. are there tell tale signs of a potential jealous cav and is the behavior of him getting overly excited with people something I should try to change now? or should I not bother because its too late since he is 8 months?? Does anyone else's dog do this??