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12-28-2008, 07:00 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Santa Monica, CA
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| Petsitting Help! I've been pet-sitting a yorkie for a week and any time I try to walk him, he snaps at me. I've managed to walk him a couple of times where he lets me put his leash on willingly, but this is usually after a long period of time, during which he's peed and pooped in the house and is real real desperate. My friend was in town visiting and at some point we resorted to sneaking up on him and putting the leash on, but that involved 2 people. I'm really fed up. The owner is in a foreign country and she basically said that if he's not willign to go, not to mind him and let him pee in the kitchen and that he'll come around, but I'm sick of the snapping and cleaning up pee. Advice, please? |
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12-28-2008, 07:18 PM | #2 |
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| Feed him a yummy treat when you put on his leash. Work up to making him sit for the treat while you put the leash on. It would take a very stubborn dog to refuse a treat If the treat doesn't work, smear some peanut butter on a spoon or heck even on the floor and let him lick it while you put the leash on. If it works for cutting nails it should work for attaching a leash
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12-30-2008, 09:00 AM | #3 |
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| Addressing the peeing problem....I guess the first think I would do is get an ex-pen and use piddle pads. Also I have heard that doing obedience training addresses the aggression issue. Do a "search" here on YT and you should come up with some suggestions because I know that I have seen threads about that same subject. Good luck. Blessings to you for dogsitting.
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12-30-2008, 09:21 AM | #4 |
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| Does he have on a harness or collar? Could it be too tight? It sounds silly, but I wonder if something about the process hurts him in some way. I would use a harness that I could leave on at all times, so all you have to do is clip the leash on and make sure that going out with a leash attached is a lot of fun with LOTS of treats as Erin suggested. Also....is this the only time he snaps at you?
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12-31-2008, 12:35 AM | #5 |
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| the first thing I tried was treats. the dog is super duper stubborn. if he doesn't want to be on a leash, he won't do it, no matter how yummy the treat. i've tried peanut butter and treats, which he LOVES, if he's in the mood to even deal with me. when he is, he'll do whatever I want repeatedly and will follow me around for more like he was a little while ago. The second I don't have treats, he hates me again (which i guess is an improvement from earlier today, when he hated me despite the treats) he mostly snaps at me when i try to put a leash on him, even when it's clear he wants to go out and follows me around the apartment, and nudges me to go out. it's even more frustrating because they have another dog that is super-cooperative, but when I have the leash on him, I end up taking him out alone, just because I don't want to prep him to go out and then make him stay home, just because his brother is being difficult. he also snaps at his owner's sister/roomate when she tries to walk him. The harness is visibly loose. And, the thing is that most dogs really love me. The other one they have certainly does, and just tonight, while we were on a walk, a stranger's dog crawled into my lap, which happens a lot. An old friend of mine used to say that I knew just where to scratch them behind the ears, because her dog wasn't usually like that with other peopl. i tried squirting water at him once, like some people have suggested on the forum, when he snaps at me, but that just makes him weird and sad. and I JUST took him out for a 45 minute walk, to the point where he was visibly tired, fed him lots of treats, and he's STILL trying to pee in the kitchen. The only reason he hasn't is because I'm sitting right in front of it. His owner says they never pee in the house, and I'm trying to figure out if she's just saying it, so I'm not pissed at her for not warning me, or he truly hates that I'm here that much. he totally peed on the bed i'm sleeping in, and pees in the house 3 times a day, even though I'm walking him twice a day. At wits end. |
12-31-2008, 06:58 AM | #6 |
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| Just to clarify - are you letting him out to pee a bunch and then walking him twice a day? Because I let mine out almost every hour or so during the day to pee and then we take 1 or 2 walks if the weather is OK, but even if we don't walk they get lots of potty breaks. IF you really meant he is only going out twice a day that is why he is peeing on the floor.
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12-31-2008, 11:38 AM | #7 |
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| they live in an apartment. There's no where to let them out. I'm walking them a total of 2+ hours a day, twice a day. He won't let me take him out more than twice a day. |
12-31-2008, 11:40 AM | #8 |
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| AND he tried to pee in the kitchen right after i took him out last night for 45 minutes. |
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