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06-22-2010, 08:24 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Merced, CA, USA
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| Training/Domiance help Hi All! I am new to the forum as well as the world of yorkies... I knew that they were stubborn but goodness... i didn't know that it was this stubborn. anywhoo... So, Bella is 4 months and I had her for about a month and I've been crate training her which she has been pretty good given that i have like two homes... What do i do if she has an incident indoors??? but my problem stands with her learning the common commands... Any tips?? Lately, she has been testing her dominance on me... I eat before I fed her... I don't let her on my bed... she stays pretty much until the kitchen... what can i do? any tips?? thanks! I greatly appreciate the help and sorryy for all the questions! |
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06-22-2010, 10:04 PM | #2 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Hi, Welcome to YT! Personally, I don't really buy the dominance theory for dogs. However, dogs can certainly be disobedient, sneaky, or just plain dimwitted. When you say she is testing her dominance, can you be more specific?
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06-22-2010, 10:12 PM | #3 |
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| When we got Uni, we pretty much had two homes as well. We didn't crate train her, but what we did was do the same training in each home. We trained her to go potty in the people bathrooms. It helped that at the time both homes had carpet in the living areas and tile in the bathrooms. She could feel the difference on her paws. It's best to just keep to a schedule if possible, eating and pottying at the same times everyday, whether it be in one house or the other. Let her out of the crate every 2 hours or less since she is so young. If she has an accident, show it to her, say No! and take her to her pad and say, potty here!. many people think that if you don't catch them in the act, that if you bring them back to their accident later they will not remember. I personally don't believe that. Do training with normal kibble at regular feeding time. You are right in eating first, then feed her. Also work on the basics, sit, stay, come, for now. You can work on others when she gets those first. Have her sit and stay when you go through doorways first, and have her follow you, not the otherway around. I don't find anything wrong with dogs in my bed, but some people don't, it's just personal preference. As long as the dog doesn't think it's his bed then it's fine. My Uni has slept in my bed since the day I got her, and no problems here. there's also lots of tips in the training forum.
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06-22-2010, 10:33 PM | #4 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Merced, CA, USA
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| @QuickSilver thank you. Like today, when she heard me open a plastic bag she darted towards me and started humping my leg... I googled it and i found that this is a way of showing dominance given that females are usually not the ones who hump. Additionally, during a check up, her vet informed me that when she tries to push your hand away with her paw on top of your hand is a form of showing dominance. And I am not sure if its her being stubborn, but when I bring her outside to pee/poop she sometimes sits and stands here when she is done... not necessarily walking to the stairs when we are a few steps away... i live in an apartment upstairs and I have to carry her up the stairs because she simply can't climb the stairs. @Capt_noonie Thanks for the tips, i have been looking through them... taking notes... i thought i'd cut the time in half by mentioning it in this post. lol.... As for training basic commands... i have only been praising her with "good girl" and a new scratch, the kind that makes her back leg go wild just because i tried them with treats that she bites and eats the first time around... but not the second. She bites and spits it out.. same with her reg. food. |
06-22-2010, 10:47 PM | #5 |
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| What kind of food are you giving may I ask? usually when they are pups and haven't developed their "picky palate" yet LOL (mostly our fault I think!) they will eat anything. Try sit first. Hold the kibble/treat at nose level and move it back and up over their head. It helps if they are backing up to a wall. They will look at the food and rock backwards, ending in a sit. Once she gets sit, go for down/lay. In a sit position, move the food down to the ground. many times they are too short and don't understand why to food is on the ground, and they just look down. If this is the case, try the down command on a nice big stool or sofa and move the food below the seat level. If their bum goes up, place your free hand above it, so when the bum goes up, it feels your hand and lays back down.
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06-22-2010, 11:19 PM | #6 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Humping can express a lot of things. It can be a self-soothing mechanism, like scratching, or sniffing the ground. Here's a good article on dominance: The Macho Myth | Dog Star Daily However, most people don't enjoy being humped, so certainly, if she tries to hump you, tell her "no", and push her off. The paw on top of the hand might be sass... on the other hand, my dog, who is quite submissive, does this when he wants to play. It is a "challenging" gesture, but it depends on the context. With regard to stairs, it does take puppies a little while to understand height, just like babies... maybe shes nervous about going up them? If you pick her up, she'll probably learn to wait you out. Maybe try tossing a treat a few steps up - that should motivate her to move.
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06-23-2010, 09:02 AM | #7 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Merced, CA, USA
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| @Capt_noonie Dry food- i'm feeding her Science Diet for puppies: small and toy breed. I've tried the food in the can mixed with the dry... and she simply will eat around the wet food and go for the dry kibble or not at all.... treat-wise- i used beggin' wraps, the cesar treats: softies -grilled chicken, and Canine carry-outs: beef flavored and another science diet training treat. ohh.. that's interesting. thanks for the suggestion!! the wall is clever!! haha.. her bum will go up on the down... she does like a mini handstand when she eats and when she poops.. hahaha. @Quicksilver thanks for the article!! at first i didn't realize that she was humping and i thought that she was trying just to climb on me and just kept slipping until my sister pointed it out to me... :/ i think she's a bit scared of the stairs because she slipped off step once... thanks for all the tips!! <3 Last edited by ticklemepink; 06-23-2010 at 09:04 AM. |
06-23-2010, 11:57 AM | #8 |
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| Might I suggest a better kibble for your baby. check out this website: Dog Food Reviews | Dog Food Ratings Science Diet is not that good of a food, and the cesar and begging wraps are not good either. The site is good for teaching what ingredients are good and not so good, then you can learn to read labels. Some things that sound good are not. I learned a lot from this site.
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06-23-2010, 12:05 PM | #9 |
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| Oh, Science diet is under Hill's Science Diet.
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