


I picked up Bella this sunday in Orlando and immediately fell in love with her. She's almost 9 weeks old. She looks healthy to me.
I have a couple concerns and I wanted to know if they were normal. She's a talkative pup, she groans and moans even in her sleep. While sleeping (By the way she sleeps almost 16 hours a day!) She shakes. Is this a dream or could it be epilepsy?
She is deathly afraid of her crate. She actually scratched at the wiring so fiercly that she lost a nail and started bleeding really badly. I sleep with her at night and she wakes me up by howling when she has to use the restroom. Is there a way to break her from this? I mean I don't mind sleeping with the dog, but it's probably not what I'm supposed to be doing right?
She is eating a lot, i only feed her the recommended amounts but she's finding the cat's food and eating that and will eat all the grass in the yard if I would let her.
Let me know what you think of her. She has 35 champions in her line, all hunt and field trials. I think she's going to make an excellent scent hound, Prob is she is too friendly with other animals and tries to lick my cats rather than eat them like my father's Ridgebacks always tried to do.