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05-14-2013, 07:07 AM | #1 |
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| Jumping and face licking I like Yorkie kisses as much as the next person, but 15 week old Bella is an incessant jumper. She is always trying to get to my face to lick my mouth, ears, and head. I've learned to use the "talk to the hand" move (holding up my hand and turning my face aside) and that will cause her to stop for a minute or so, but then she comes back and continues like nothing happened. Is this something that Yorkie puppies grow out of eventually, or do I need to continue with the "talk to the hand" type of training? |
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05-14-2013, 07:25 AM | #2 |
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| I'd say keep up with the training. If you don't train, she'll probably think what she's doing is ok. |
05-14-2013, 07:27 AM | #3 |
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| I agree. Keep the training going. My Huey is still an incessant face licker at 4 years old.
__________________ Huey's mom, Marilyn :When a day starts & ends with puppy kisses, I can handle anything that comes in between! |
05-14-2013, 07:36 AM | #4 |
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| Aw! She loves you! Even so, do train her, you want to try to put a limit on this or revise it to where it's done for an acceptable (to you) amount of time and intensity... I got my Sapphire when she was 3 YO, she gets so excited she jumps up and tries to bite my nose! The first time she was successful and I saw stars for about 15 minutes, lol. Now, I remember to turn my head like even when I go to tie my shoes. She has some confidence isuues so I'm really careful about how I discipline her, if anyone can call what I do 'discipline'... ha. More like 're-directing'...
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05-14-2013, 07:42 AM | #5 |
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| Zoey (2 years old) gets so excited when she sees me she'll start jumping and what not. Even if I left the room for couple minutes, it's not she haven't seen for DAYS. LOL I'll pet her and rub all over her body but if she gets too excited and starts doing anything she shouldn't, I push her away and not touch her. Couple times of that, she gets the hint and stops. |
05-14-2013, 07:56 AM | #6 |
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| Jess does that. I'm not a big fan of licks (I actually had an allergic reaction on my hand when we first got her) So I just started keeping my head back out of her reach and eventually she got the message so she doesn't do it to me anymore. My kids love it so she goes to town on them. |
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05-14-2013, 08:09 AM | #8 |
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| From so much of what I've read from dozens of dog experts a lot of this is considered vestigial behavior starting with the wild feeding program of wolves and canines and they are born knowing that adults feed and give them needed and wanted attention from jumping up to reach the lips to lick them. Other dogs' and our mouths are also filled with scent and give the dog lots of information about us, so they do this to learn about others. It carries over to even grown dogs, seeking to curry favor with its pack leaders and stronger adults and scent their muzzles up close for recent activity and that behaving in this manner can keep them safe and informed. It's common for puppies to do this and the less secure a puppy, the more they tend to do it as they want and need more assurance from their pack leader. Older dogs, even 110 lb. dogs, will jump up on people to try to get to their lips to lick and greet them and start to curry favor as that person enters their home. When we first get puppies, we train them to kiss and lick us by holding their faces right up to ours and kiss and let them lick us, their paws on our necks and faces and we lie on the floor and call them right up to us to keep on doing this or lift them up and kiss them. We've trained them well! They just want to keep those initial good times going that we train into them from the first greeting. With a young puppy, you might handle it a couple of ways and it won't be fixed in a couple of weeks as it's genetic to do this and we've embellished on nature by our training from the time we first met them. You could immediately stand up and walk out of the room when the puppy starts it, say "uh oh" and physically remove her off of you, put her into a sitting position and hold your hand in front of her face in the "Halt!" position and locking eyes with her until she quietens over and over and over until she begins to learn what inevitably will happen when she does this. Thirdly, you could train her to sit and after a greeting has lasted long enough, have her sit on request. Always quietly reward and praise her, smile. Keep it low key as she's already excited. The very best way to get a handle on any of these early little misbehaviors is to start now in training her in very short basic obedience for 3 - 5 minutes 3 times a day and get her used to impulse control and obeying your requests for a positive reward. It will begin to teach her to respect you, look to you for leadership and guidance and to learn by rote to do what you request. It has a wonderful cumulative effect and in time, dogs learn your words for "don't do that", "stop it", cease and desist, lol, and your body attitude, facial expressions when you are displeased and they learn to watch for your reactions and stop behavior you don't like, in time before you even form the words. They are not perfect and get too excited sometimes and forget, etc., but in the main, a well-trained puppy in basic obedience with a loving and patient teacher who keeps the lessons refreshed and fun, patient and very rewarding, will be a dog you will LOVE having for a pet because they know you so well and want to keep you happy. You can reshape almost any bad behavior with repetitive, positive-reinforcement training of a dog to teach it simple basics in order to learn how to control itself and respond to you in every way 99% of the time. That 1% they don't is what keeps having a dog so interesting and challenging and mostly so much fun.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
05-14-2013, 08:25 AM | #9 | |
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05-14-2013, 08:51 AM | #10 |
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| I've followed some of your posts about Bella! I imagine she will turn out to be a special girl and you seem totally tuned in to her. I'll bet you will enjoy working with her in simple obedience training - just watch highly viewed YouTube videos of people training puppies with positive-reinforcement methods and learn how the top trainers work with young puppies. I just wish most of them didn't think they had to be cute or entertain us - just show us the training and get on with it - LOL. There's one really good trainer I used to watch some and somehow her YouTube channel got wiped off my list or subscription and I've been trying to find her for months. She was get down to business and no nonsense but so good at teaching and inspiring a puppy to watch and learn from her. Also, you can get basic obedience training tips off Google and our Library here in the Puppy section. Once they learn how to learn and focus and control themselves, each subsequent trick usually gets easier and easier unless it is a multi-dimensional trick that has to be taught in stages and then put together into one big one. Tibbe learned everything so fast except to sit up and beg. The dog could not hold himself up! I realized he had no balance, no awareness of or control over his torso muscles to hold him up and we had to work for months little by little to strengthen those with little short situps and he would sway over to the side or back and fall over - plop! But finally, he got stronger, got an awareness of his balance, how to correct his swaying and begin to be able to hold himself upright. In time he began to sit up and beg like a champ and now he can hold it forever and never sway one bit. Now he sits up and begs all on his own when he wants something. And when he sits up, the tip of his tongue almost always peeks out.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
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