Mad!! Help!!

Help

Just come back from a walk and the wee man took a maddie, racing back and forth.......the wife and I have just learned not to get down to his level when this happens if we don't want broken bones. He must have been celebrating being 17 weeks today.

Seriously, why do they do this AFTER they've been exercised and what is the best course of action?
Stay out of his way?
Try to calm him down?
Reprimand him?

Laugh

Its perfectly normal ... I actually love it ... leave them to it deffo but yeah stay outa the way, I usually bung him out in the garden when I can see it comin on, cus he will A. hurt himself indoors, and B. wreck the bloody place

,i remember those puppy days well!saying that even now some times after we have got back with sash after a walk she'll have a funny 5 mins and we'll look at each other and say we did take her out did'nt we!

Kuchar's the same - does the wall of death around the living room sometimes.Luckily the room is big enough for him to do a few circuits and then he lies down - puffed out! I just stay out of his way - for both our safeties - until he calms down on his own. Love to see it though

Its a puppy thing, dont tell him off though. My girls do it you just have to laugh> Many a time I have dragged my exhausted carcase home with presumably exhausted Staffords and they have gone mental its a puppy thing just embrace it x

stella wrote: ,i remember those puppy days well!

Puppy days?

Dempsey still bloody does it! Believe me, when you've got 5 stone of EBT bouncing off the walls, you get out of the way!

Lol my 2 do it ! Very random but funny as to watch, both batshit crazy, ears bk skidding around on the oak flooring, up onto the sofa, round the lounge, fining rm, kitchen , then bk again !
My son got in the way once n ended up on his butt !

Defo a staffy thing '

Yep, I don't understand why...but Percy does the 'after walk mad 5 mins"

We just stay out the way and laugh

My 5yr old says ' mum! Diesel n Tank got ants in their pants again'!

So funny, that basically sums it up.

Steff does it straight after a walk and it lasts about 10mins.. We call it her "10min of Mayhem" Just get out of the way and get the video recorder out, coz some of it is hilarious

stay out of the way and laugh

Stay away from him and make sure his rock-hard skull doesn't collide with your shin

They all do that, it's not even a puppy thing, my old dog did it his entire life

noah does a kind of wall of death, ears back, tail between his legs and races round.
usually when i'm just back home and ignoring him while eating my meal, starts with a few moans , then growls

Yep, we have it here too most days. We laugh and tuck our legs up

I found that when chaos goes on a mad run the way i calm him down it to get a treat and shout him over ask him to sit and ask for paw then give him the treat, or when i see him on a mad run, running in circles around the table i get a dog bone call him over and throw it on his bed like playing fetch when he gets it he lies on the bed with the bone CALM

thankfully my shepherd does the work for me... we have a large room with a coffee table in the middle and they do cicuits around it. i get the kids up on the couch and we laugh at them. Daft buggers.