Hackles anyone???

Our Maggie has turned on her hackles, if that’s what puppies do???!!! She now sees something that she deems as out of place, unidentifiable or just down right wrong and the barking ensues amidst lots of movement forward and backward and sideways (you have to get every angle in order to assess the danger at hand) and now for the determined effort on her part to show she’s in charge and no one will invade her space, the emergence of her hackles!!!! Except she hasn’t told her body what part is supposed to raise and what isn’t so her hackles start at the back of her head and run the entire length of her spine, to the base of her tail. She resembles a teenager with spiked hair, all pointing to the middle or centre line!!! And just so that you know she means business, she lowers her head, growling and barking at that shovel leaning against the fence, defying it to move!!! :) All that accomplished, she bounds into the house to let us know she’s been on the job of defending the Paces’ backyard and all is well and thus far the shovel hasn’t chased her into the house as her furtive, over the shoulder glance will verify!!!!