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Old 10-02-2008, 10:52 AM   #1
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Default I really need help!  new yorkie owner confused!!!!!

Ok I hope I don’t have too many stupid questions, since I’m a new yorkie owner  -

First my little girl was doing great when I used to call her to “come” she ran to me etc… and when going out for potty – I called her back in the house again and she ran inside and or followed me. Now she’s not doing any of this…she just sits outside and looks at me I say come so many times get down to her level nice etc…and she just sits there… (I get so disappointed frustrated  ) so I try to close screen door to see if she will come etc.. but she just sits there looking at the door! And I go inside etc.. I come back n she’s still sitting there LOL – so I don’t know what’s going on! Also when I take her on walks she used to come back in the house w/no problem but as soon as we get by my gate she stops and pulls like she doesn’t want to go in – I’m like so confused. Another thing I’ve noticed when walking her, she gets SO DISTRACTED WHEN SHE SEES PEOPLE IS THIS NORMAL? Like she doesn’t walk she stops and wants their attention or wants to follow them….it can get frustrating at times I don’t mind but she does it ALL the time! and not all people like dogs, and they just walk by without acknowledging her, (and I’m ok) but she wants their attention – she stops AT EVERYTHING!!!! And ANYTHING!! And lastly but not least LOL she keeps eating the grass so I don’t know if this is good I can’t stop her from doing this I’ve tried and NOTHING
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She is a puppy, dear, they get distracted. Before getting Zander, I bought books, Yorkies for dummies, other yorkie books to learn as much as I could, researched on the internet, tricks, commands, potty training. Here is what I learned .... a treat will get them to do anything.

1st teach come, I would sit in the living room, Zander on the leash, my son would hold him, I would sit across from them, holding the other end of the leash, I'd say come, my son would take his hands off Zander, if Zander didn't come, I would gently reel him in (the leash) repeat - come and give a treat, practice this, hopefully yours will get it quickly.

If that does not work for you, show her that you have a treat in your hand, walk around the house with it, she should be following, say good girl - come! give her the treat, it can be a tiny cheerio, nothing big or heavy.

The distractions when walking .. when walking in the streets Always use a leash .... the behavior is sort of normal for them, Jazzie is 1.50 and she thinks all people, dogs anything that moves is her friend and she gets nutty, pulls. Just keep walking, perhaps say good girl walk, come on.. keep walking The more you walk her, she will come to realize what is expected of her on a walk. When I brought Jazzie home, she wanted to run onto the grass to sniff, I taught her that when we walk we walk on the concrete sidewalk, after walking 3 houses or so from my home I gear them over to the grass and tell them to go potty (I name it- go pipi or go poo), and they do. If one of them is not ready to go, we walk a little more in the same manner then we stop, gear them to the grass and try again.

The grass sounds like perhaps she needs greens in her food?, not sure .... Jazzie eats, innova adult, Zander has a more sensitive tummy, he eats california naturals..

I hope this helps some.
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She is a puppy, dear, they get distracted. Before getting Zander, I bought books, Yorkies for dummies, other yorkie books to learn as much as I could, researched on the internet, tricks, commands, potty training. Here is what I learned .... a treat will get them to do anything.

1st teach come, I would sit in the living room, Zander on the leash, my son would hold him, I would sit across from them, holding the other end of the leash, I'd say come, my son would take his hands off Zander, if Zander didn't come, I would gently reel him in (the leash) repeat - come and give a treat, practice this, hopefully yours will get it quickly.

If that does not work for you, show her that you have a treat in your hand, walk around the house with it, she should be following, say good girl - come! give her the treat, it can be a tiny cheerio, nothing big or heavy.

The distractions when walking .. when walking in the streets Always use a leash .... the behavior is sort of normal for them, Jazzie is 1.50 and she thinks all people, dogs anything that moves is her friend and she gets nutty, pulls. Just keep walking, perhaps say good girl walk, come on.. keep walking The more you walk her, she will come to realize what is expected of her on a walk. When I brought Jazzie home, she wanted to run onto the grass to sniff, I taught her that when we walk we walk on the concrete sidewalk, after walking 3 houses or so from my home I gear them over to the grass and tell them to go potty (I name it- go pipi or go poo), and they do. If one of them is not ready to go, we walk a little more in the same manner then we stop, gear them to the grass and try again.

The grass sounds like perhaps she needs greens in her food?, not sure .... Jazzie eats, innova adult, Zander has a more sensitive tummy, he eats california naturals..

I hope this helps some.

Awwww thank you so much for this feedback this helps me tons!! Yes my little girl does the same thing = she thinks all people, dogs anything that moves is her friend and she gets nutty, pulls. this is so Marbellah... I truly appreciate the help/feedback i was begging to lose my mind!!!
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i had my dog trainer tell me that around 5-6 months old puppies go through this testing phase or what she called they forgot everything. Just keep at it and it will eventually go away and your puppy will be back to listening .
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Ah puppies get distracted. In fact my Maxi still stops to say hello to everyone ( humans and animals ) . When it comes to her not coming to you, she is testing you. You can try to teach her to come by having treats in your hands. Hold the treat and repeat the word "come" and eventually she would want a treat and will come to you. Then praise and repeat a lot. That worked for Maxi. Just dont give up on the training, she will get it
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You are describing trixie to a "T". I think they go to a rebellious stage or something. When I call trixie now, unlike before, she wants to play that "bet you can't catch me" game. It drives me insane, special cause she makes me late for school sometimes. What I do now, is have a treat in my hands, while sitting on the floor. She thinks is a training section and that she is getting lots of treats. so, she comes, and starts giving you the high five right away. Sometimes that doesnt really work either
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OMG this is like Marbellah – She makes me late for work sometimes too. she was doing so good w/the training – I did it again today w/treats and of course it worked. She was starting to run from me too lol like when I wanted to pick her up…she’s so cute… I love this little girl to death. Thank you all for the feedback, I’m glad is not just my little one or me LOL – so when she just sits there staring at me, I’m so late that I just go out pick her up and bring her in – literally she just sits there looking at me – I’m like “come on marbellah come on” and nothing – I try to sweet talk too and nothing… I just don’t always have a treat in my hands… yup she’s beginning to be rebellious alright..she’s only 16 weeks now…
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Some times I would squat down and say good girl, Jazzie, come and she would.
Don't give in to those chases, she has to understand she comes to you, not you chasing her. It takes time, just practice the come command. I used to and still do, put cheerios in my pockets for bribing purposes I mean rewards. Sometimes I'll be at work, put my hands in my pockets only to feel crunched up cheerios, oh well.
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Some times I would squat down and say good girl, Jazzie, come and she would.
Don't give in to those chases, she has to understand she comes to you, not you chasing her. It takes time, just practice the come command. I used to and still do, put cheerios in my pockets for bribing purposes I mean rewards. Sometimes I'll be at work, put my hands in my pockets only to feel crunched up cheerios, oh well.
LOL bribing!!!
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yeah you're right i shouldn't be going after her, chasing, she just makes me late and i get irritated so i just go out and pick her up...i get so mad but i don't show it to her and i can't just leave her out! ugh! well hopefully is just a phase she's going through.
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She is a normal puppy doing normal things and the world is a very intersting place to be in and it wonderful to explore.
Just start with the basics and work through everything calm and relaxed. She not bring tough on you out of being spitful or wanting to be in charge, she just being a good healthy normal puppy.
When she first came home you were the world and the best thing ever.. As the world expands it more intrusting then you are and off she goes to see it.

One way to train this is on a long line call her to you by using her name, not come and help gently gather in the leash once she gets to you treat her for coming... yes I know you helped that not the point of this and then release her back to sniff or play.
Do it over and over in a 15 minute session and then head in side.
What you are trying to do is teach her that if she comes you are great in a calm manner with the treat and then letting her go also not a block to having what she thinks she wants.
What will happen is that the more you say go sniff the less she will want to go sniff. It becomes ok to do not something to be snuck or not allowed.

Working come as in come here right now is a different thing and come or here should only be used when a come is going o happen. If sniffing or ignoring happens go get the dog.
Do not chase just calmly go get.
Right now she is seeing you as a stop or black to all things great in the world. you need to switch that up.

As for puppies going through stages yes they do... but teeenage hood and other stages if you forget that dogs do not genralize ( so sit in the livingroom and sit in the bedroom and sit out side are not the same) makes them look far more stubron or rude then they really are.
Also they are learning a great deal and things can fall apart when it goes from being something learned to a know thing.. so from short term to long term memory... just like kids as well when tired the last thing learned is the first thing they forget.

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A lot of good advice here, I've little to add except to be consistent with your commands.

Gracie tests the Come command too. I'll say Come, you can see her little brain working, Ok Momma, here I come. She'll take a step, cock her head and then turn and go in the other direction. Little stinker, but it's so cute that I can't get mad at her. I just help her to remember, I'm the Momma and what I say goes. One thing that works with Gracie when she does this is for me to immediately turn my back on her, I wave my hands in the air and make a funny noise. She'll come immediately to see what new game I'm playing. When she walks around in front of me I say Come to her again and she'll walk right to me. I praise her and then we move on. I am still working with her on leash to be consistent with the command, she's only 8 months old and I know she will eventually get it down pat. My DH saw me do this once in the backyard and he thought I'd lost my mind. But it works, so I'll keep doing it when I need to.

As for the grass thing, Gracie from day one has always eaten grass. Grass, wood, bugs, dirt, rocks...anything she could put into her mouth. And when you are only 3 inches off the ground, everything looks appealing. It's all part of the puppy stage. She's tapering off some now, at least I haven't seen her eat any clumps of dirt lately But she still enjoys a bite or two of grass. I don't believe it harms them in any way, so I'm not worried about it. I'd be thrilled if grass was the strangest thing she put into her mouth.
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Oh i`m so glad to hear my molly is nornal according to the rest of the yorkies. She does all of the above. Anything she can get in her mouth. She loves bugs to play with. Won`t come to me unless she wants to. She thinks i`m playing. But she is getting better. Maybe with age it get better. I hope. She is 10 months old. She does real good on her leash. She is just a spoiled yorkie.
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thank you everyone - this has helped me so much. I was beginning to wonder about her...but I just started taking her out for walks so i should know that she will stop at everything and anything. Its like we take two steps and she stops to look at people or things lol even people's conversations like near apartments people are speaking and she stops lol - and yes she puts EVERYTHING in her mouth literally she followed me to restroom twice and there were a couple of earing backs and she put them in her mouth and of course i got it out...i took her out for again today 3rd time and she did a bit better and these walks have been night time less people i'm afraid to take her day time lol - i take her to a park where a lot of people walk and take their dogs for walks.... people are always running, walking, walking dogs near a beautiful lake, again i'm afraid to take her out during day time lol - but will try tomorrow i know it will be crazy! thank you to everyone who has helped me here, thank goodness to this web site - and i am going to try and get my hands of dummy for yorkies
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Ah puppies get distracted. In fact my Maxi still stops to say hello to everyone ( humans and animals ) . When it comes to her not coming to you, she is testing you. You can try to teach her to come by having treats in your hands. Hold the treat and repeat the word "come" and eventually she would want a treat and will come to you. Then praise and repeat a lot. That worked for Maxi. Just dont give up on the training, she will get it
just looked at maxi's myspace beautiful i saw all the tricks you thought that's awesome! can anyone tell me how do i teach my little girl to high five, roll over, wave oh my god how about play dead now this i have to see
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