Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I've been very busy!
She is great so far. She is a ball of energy. She semi knows her name and knows how to sit and almost to lay down. I was gone for a solid month straight so now the training officially starts!
I have a few questions:
I have been taking her food every meal from her to test aggression and get her used to that - same with toys. She is fine with me doing it but if my roomates dogs even enter the room she gets aggressive. She doesn't growl or snarl - but she does kinda snip at them. Is there a way to fix this?
She is still a little slow on learning her name but she knows things like "Sit" and "Go Potty"
The breeder told me she is part wolf - is there a way to get a test done to make sure?
There is a very easy way to fix this... dont take anything away from her. Seriously, it causes more issues than it's worth. Taking resources away from dogs, (even if you're giving them back right away) will cause resource guarding. Dogs live in the moment, they do not reason the way we do. A dog thinks like this "oh hey! yummy food! HEY THAT'S MINE!!! oh hey! yummy food!" It's that "HEY THAT'S MINE" that can get the dog into all types of trouble, depending on how they react to what they're feeling.
You taking food and toys away from the puppy is more than likely the reason behind the growling with the roommate. If you want her to respect that all good things come from you, you should feed her by hand, making her work for every piece of food, or better yet, put all her daily allotment of food in little containers around the house, whenever you or your roommate pass a container, call her to you, give her a piece, then ask for something, (sit, down, shake, or turn it into a little training session) for more of the food, then put the container back and carry on with your business.
When she's eating out of a bowl, have your roommate walk into the room with something really yummy, like a piece of hot dog, or some other type of real meat. If your roommate can get close enough, have them drop it in her bowl, then carry on, otherwise ignoring her, or if she gets angry with them even near her, have them sit on the floor with their back to her, with the piece of meat on the floor beside them... she'll come over to investigate, possibly only after she's done, but that's fine, cuz after a few times, she's going to associate them with really good things, and she'll let them get closer and closer, until they can drop the food into her bowl.
Always trade her for something she's got with something better, if you want to take something away, never just take it away.
Here's an analogy:
I give you a $50 bill, then a short time later I come up to you and snatch it away. the next time I give you a $50 bill, you're going to watch me carefully, and either hide it, or shove me away if I come too close. but if instead of snatching the $50 bill away, I hand you a $100 bill? you're going to eagerly hand over the $50 bill in trade.
I adopted a deaf dog with severe resource guarding issues, within 4 weeks I could stick my hand in his dish, pet him, touch his face, all while he was eating... I just showed him that I was trustworthy, and that I'd never take anything away from him, so he didn't need to guard his food.
One other bit of advice. Always respect her growl, NEVER correct a growl. Her growl is her early warning device, if she has the growl trained out of her, then the next warning is a snap.