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01-23-2015, 12:39 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: bronx
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| mia has developed an aggression over me? HELP!! Mia is the sweetest and most attention seeker i know. But for the past month she has become utterly angry/aggressive at night when its bed time or when she is eating. Shes going to be turning 1yr soon and im worried cuz its still a. Early stage of her long life with me. 1-When is bed time, she usually lays by my feet in the corner, if i make a sudden movement with my feet or if i move close to when shes laying down comfortably she is completely disturbed she growls at me louder and louder as i get closer and i could see her teeth is as shes ready to bite me. There were a few times where i just picked her up growling when i could saying stop , bad girl, no growling at mami! Alot of different commands to a point where she relaxed but now im scared to even touch her. Lately , i just been saying " bad girl get off" and she knows what that means but she decides to disobey and growl even louder so i kick her off my bed with my pillow instead (idk what im doing by that, but it scares sometimes) btw she doesnt get back on unless i say to do so. 2-Another stage is when she gets her food , i recently changed her food to natural balance which she loves it. If i get close to her or approach the zone petting her she growls at me as if im going to take her food away. Today she did some of her usual stages where she eats a little and leaves some for a lil later . All i did was walk by the food and suddenly jumped from where she was and guarded her food chugging g some down in the process. Im trying to figure whats the best way to correct this behavior i wouldn't want it to get any worse. Although it did start like 3 months ago when she got her first heat cycle before i could fix her, i know dogs do get a little aggressive in that stage but its been well over a month since it left. I am getting her fixed early February, would this help the matter? i don't want her to be in any pain when her birthday comes if i fix her now. |
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01-23-2015, 12:49 AM | #2 |
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| Also she barks uncontrollably to what ever noise she hears outside or even indoors. I live in an apartment so people come up and down stairs, Its 7am and if she hears a noise she will bark loud and continuously till its quiet and that's unacceptable behavior given that others in my home dont need to wake because of her barks |
01-23-2015, 03:21 AM | #3 | |
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I don't know that getting her spayed is going to change that behavior, but most pups bounce back quickly from the surgery so she is not going to be in pain for more than a day or few. When we had our girl done, the vet told me to make sure she got her pain meds for at least four days. We gave them, but I would have sworn she did not need them past the second day. She also had a dental and 4 teeth removed at the same time. She was up, running around, eating and acting normally. It was all I could do to keep her from jumping on the furniture by the second day. | |
01-23-2015, 12:51 PM | #4 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | I don't think having one heat would affect her personality to such an extent - at least this is my experience with full females. Their personalities as such might change a tad during heat, but my experience has been once heat is over personality returns to normal. You are right to be concerned. This behaviour is not acceptable, especially to their owner. And she is not resource guarding YOU, well at least in the examples you stated, she has determined She is Over and Above you, and is protecting HER Turf and not you. Your dog now must earn every single piece of food from you and your hand, and must earn the right to sleep in the bed with you. Thank means hand feeding their meals, and for each piece of kibble they need to do an obedience command or a trick - what-ever. Look up the program nothing in life is free - NILF. There are lots of you tube videos on it. I do understand your fear --- it is no fun being bit by a dog that is supposed to love you. The trick here is to be, feel, and act confident, as the pack leader that you are. Don't withdraw your love, but calmly, consistently and confidently you expect her to behave herself and to obey you .. ALWAYS. Take her out for walks, reward and praise good behaviour. Play with her, love and pet her. But no trips up to the bed, until you can take her food away, walk by her food bowl etc. And for now, if you have her up on the couch and want to try that out, I would have her harness on her and a short lead. If she growls at you, she is immediately removed from the couch in no uncertain terms and very quickly. BAD GIRL. You don't have to shout it - just have disgust in your voice as you say it. She is removed and placed in her Xpen, playpen, or crate, and then you take over your seat again and ignore her for at least 10 minutes.
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01-23-2015, 02:30 PM | #5 |
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| Have you ever tried one of the Nothing In Life Is Free programs? If not, I'd start out with that right now.
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01-24-2015, 12:40 AM | #6 | |
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01-24-2015, 08:22 PM | #7 |
YT Addict | Wow iis it in the weather( joking) both those areas are boos issues only with my papilon. Just pulled him off my pap cause she dared to get on my bed,put him in the crate. Princess wanted him out. Go figure. Boo is ten months od. And no spaying or neutering didnt help. Just had had him fixed. How do you mark your territory |
01-26-2015, 11:51 PM | #9 | |
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Im afraid it hasn't gotten better that much, the bed thing has improved tho but the food aggression has gotten pretty bad as of today. she had her worse aggression stage, I gave her, her normal night meal and idk why she has been leaving some of her food for later, today she left more then half on her bowl and when I went to pick it up about 10 mins later she flew to guard it and gave me a bite swing when I tried to get it, it caught me by surprise luckily she didn't bite me. I managed to put her locked in her crate and put a blanket over it and said no bad girl, I threw away her left over meal unfortunately that worries me too because that means she didn't eat. An hour later , I took off the blanket and said are you ready to be good again? and as I tried to open her crate she growled at me so I covered her again and said bad girl, I did this for 3 hours 1 time every hour till the last one I noticed she was in a comfort zone when in the crate somehow, I opened the top of her crate and the side AND SHE GROWLED LOUDER AND LOUDER! as if she was the boss and she comes out when she wants to. IDK what has happened to my sweet Mia ? I had to get her out of her comfort zone so I picked up the crate and shaked it slowly and carefully with the help of my sister ,she became ninja holding onto the sides I managed to finally get her out, she went straight for a corner and laid very very low with her head down . Im honestly not sure if I did right by getting her out of the crate im no expert . Ive done all the steps .she has prob had 3 treats tops in the past week, she has to earn every treat. she gets down and up to my bed whenever I say so but the food thing has gotten me very very worried. Should I take away her food after a min or two of being of the floor and not leaving it for 10mins ? i also did the she gets food when i say, she waits for her food quietly laying or sitting w.e i tell her , sometimes shes eating and i say that's it and moves back until i give her the command of go to continue eating but today this happened all so very fast. PLEASE YORKIE MAMAS HELP ME !! i have a 1yr old cousin which im godmother ofve that comes to my house very often as she lives right across from me , it will kill me if mia ever bit her this is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE behavior. | |
01-27-2015, 11:50 AM | #10 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | Just now have the time to respond. Earlier on, I highly recommended that EVERY piece of food she receives is earned. What obviously I did not make clear was that includes her breakfast and dinner. I would put her food bowl in my lap - and ask her to sit, then stand, then sit, then stand, then stand stay, sit stay, etc, every command obeyed with alacrity is rewarded. You can walk with her food bowl in you right hand, and say Follow Me, if she follows she gets a Treat from her Food bowl. This is the beginning of NILF particularly with a dog with food aggression issues. YOU Own all the FOOD in your HOME. Nothing comes for free in your house. If the Alpha dog in a pack decides to horn in on the lower pack members they back away from that food. That is what your dog should do, or at least obey the command to LEAVe IT or SIT STAY.
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01-27-2015, 11:57 AM | #11 | |
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01-27-2015, 12:22 PM | #12 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | Thanks Jeanie. to the OP - I own a very large breed, and my senior male, is very dominant, very stubborn, and very food possessive. You note I say possessive - not aggressive. But he was food aggressive! With him it is a re-iterative exercise, and one sometimes my husband has no time for and just gives up, when we renew or review what I expect Magic to do. I kid you not, sometimes one whole hour can go by, before he gets to eat one morsel from his dish. And I refresh his memory every few months or so. My husband has no patience for this - but I do. Look you have so much going for you, you are the Food Guru. YOU do the shopping, bring in the food to your home, cook that LOVELY FOOD, and you walk through your kitchen like you own it and all the space and contents with-in your kitchen. That is a natural for dogs to understand. I expect my dogs to get out of my way, when I walk through my kitchen, or when I say OUT - they get OUT of the kitchen.
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01-27-2015, 02:42 PM | #13 | |
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