Thanks again for your advice. Last night was a tough one. I gave Amber a bone late afternoon (after her dinner), she took it to her bed, chewed on it for a while then laid on it. She wouldn't move at all, for several hours and growled whenever we spoke to her. At bedtime, she wouldn't go in the garden for toilet and we couldn't even go near that side of the room without her growling very low and hard. So, we left the TV and lights on, rather than upset her further. Mark and I went up to bed and she didn't come upstairs with us, which she usually does. I laid awake for an hour or so, Amber came up, was her usual happy self but as soon as I directed her to her bed, she went back downstairs to the bone and continued as above when I came down to try and coax her back upstairs. I left her there again and went back to bed. At about 4am, she woke us in her usual cheerful manner, jumping up, licking us etc., to be let out to the garden (she'd obviously missed her late night toilet as she refused to move!), but after weeing she still remained downstairs and didn't follow Mark up. At about 7.30am, Amber woke us as usual (kisses and cuddles), had breakfast, long walk in the park and is now behaving as if the bone doesn't exist anymore.
Should we remove it from her bed or leave it there? I want to get this right so as not to aggravate her further. It is still early days, we haven't had her for three weeks yet so I'm hoping this aggression might settle down, but if we need to be behaving in a certain way, please advise! I've always had male dogs and never come across this before, so it's a new on on me!
Thanks again for your support everyone.
Lisa and Mark