It could be either way. The tough thing is this your females first heat so its new but I have a 5yr old male and a 8 month old puppy male. Usually the first week the female and older male are fine together supervised and its the 2nd and most of 3rd week they have to be separated. With this male puppy his hormones were so all over the place that they had to separated from day 1 and he was still try to get her almost a week that she was out. I trust my older guy but would not trust my younger or he would want to breed her year long lol. Denise Fox Foxhavengs Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: BAERENTATZE312@xxxxxxx Sender: showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:27:15 To: <marcatoshepherds@xxxxxxxxx>; <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: BAERENTATZE312@xxxxxxx Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Question about male behavior In a message dated 2/15/11 1:23:18 PM, marcatoshepherds@xxxxxxxxx writes: > Why is he acting this way when she's coming out of season? He was > noticeably calmer when she was ready to stand and now it's like his head > has > exploded. > Hi Jackie, It's either a sign that your male is young and inexperienced and just has a one track mind but not the nose to tell when she is actually ready, OR your bitch is actually READY now and she's a flirt early on. In most cases I would put my money on a stud dogs nose rather than when a bitch would cooperate. The girls can be fickle, especially virgins. Did you have a smear or progesterone test done on your girl? I have to tell you a story about one of my males long ago who would go crazy and howl and would keep me up at night when the girls were in heat, soooo since it was in the summer and the nights were pleasant, in order to keep my sanity I put him out in his crate in the van with ventilation (my dogs are all house dogs) and I was able to get some sleep. Good luck. Pat ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================