Snow Day!

We got a lot of snow (in Ft. Worth standards) today!  It was extremely beautiful and exciting.  Bella absolutely loved pouncing around and eating the snow.  In fact, it was hard to get her to eat real food because she just wanted to eat snow.

She was very good today until the last few moments before bed time.  She was outside playing in the snow, and when she came in, she jumped up and started biting me.  I hope that that was meant to be playful, but when I said no and turned away, she got extremely aggressive!  She was growling at me and testing me like no other.  I had to put her in the bathroom for a minute to make her calm down and know that I won't let her be around me when she is like that.  I get scared because she has chow in her and I don't want her to become aggressive.  But every time I lock her in the bathroom and then let her out, she licks and licks and is very calm and behaves. The Retriever in her causes her to be very friendly and social and eager to please, and she has only ever shown aggression towards me.  And it has only been lately, so I am going to try my best to correct this behavior.

I think this may be her testing to see who is boss, and as much as I love her sleeping with me, I think she is going to be confined to her crate at night now.  She's got to learn that I am Momma and she must behave.  She won't always be small enough for me to pick up.  Prayer needed in this journey to raise my pup.