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06-14-2013, 05:48 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Derwood, MD
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| Is he just acting out? Have we reached the teenage "years"? Our puppy is 7 month old now and he has been acting a bit strange past few weeks. One of the examples is we would go for a walk (just a short evening stroll in the neighborhood) and all of a sudden he would just stop and not move. If you start pulling him a bit, he will stop, once u stop pulling and beg him a bit he will start walking again. If he wants to go to the right and u not letting him, he will stop again until you let him. So it's either he goes where he wants to, you carry him, or he just stands there, no other option. He is also super needy! If we are sitting on the couch and not paying attention to him, he will whine. He seems to be jealous too and whines and cries if my fiance is showing me any kind of affection/attention. This all is a recent development. P.S: he is neutered, got neutered last month. |
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06-14-2013, 05:54 AM | #2 | |
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06-14-2013, 05:56 AM | #3 |
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| More like he is TESTING me lol I thought about treats, I will definitely try that It is funny how jealous he gets, but after a while it will stop being funny. Can't even imagine what will happen when we have kids! |
06-16-2013, 01:36 PM | #4 |
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| Mia is also 7 months...almost 8! But she does get jealous when my boyfriend and I are hugging or sitting on the couch. She will bark and try to get in the middle of us. However, when she jumps on us I immediately say "down" in a neutral voice and she gets down. If she's barking at us, I ignore her completely until she stops (usually takes a minute) As for the walking...Mia did that for a couple of days and I was like oh heck no! I wouldn't have HER walking me. So whenever she would try to go a different way or stop and refuse to walk I would say "walk" in a neutral voice and keep walking without paying much attention to her. Treats will also be helpful but I think they would distract Mia on walks. She has gotten much better! Just keep trying and don't give up. My sisters dog is horrible on walks and I refuse to let my dog end up like that!
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06-16-2013, 02:14 PM | #5 |
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| How far are you walking him before he just sits down and refuses to move? Usually that is an indication of an ultra tired dog or a very weakened one or one who is uncomfortable walking for some reason. If he's not tired or ill, it could be he's just not having a lot of fun on his walk for some reason or is just trying to become the leader in your relationship. A whiny, clingy dog can be from many causes. Lack of sufficient attention, lack of a rich and interesting, challenging life can do it as can a dog that doesn't feel well or is feeling insecure for some reason. A nervous dog can just hear neighborhood noises from outside and practically want to climb into your shirt out of a lack of security and feeling unsure. You might start your dog on the Nothing In Life Is Free program and get him working for everything he gets and he'll actually enjoy getting even simple things. They love to work for their food, toys, walks, etc. Also, basic obedience training will teach him to respect you as an authority figure and teach him to respond to your commands. And he'll love the activities involved in working and learning the commands and how to do them well and all the praise he gets. It will give him a sense of achievement, see the pride you have in him in your eyes and help him on the walks also. I'd make the walks faster and shorter for a while and increase his number of walks per day for a just a week or so. Get him really moving and see if that won't perk his interest up in walking and use your best cheerleader ways to boost him on as he's walking along.. If he walks really fast alongside you for a while, stop and reward him with a good treat and go home for that session and see if in time that will make any difference.
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06-17-2013, 06:03 AM | #6 |
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| IS the stopping while walking a yorkie thing? My little one does the same thing and I was just chalking it up to either old age or not wanting to go home at the end of our walks. Glad to know she's just a normal yorkie! |
06-17-2013, 06:08 AM | #7 |
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| morgan loves to walk and he never stops until we get home and then he heads for his cloud nine bed and takes a nap |
06-17-2013, 07:11 AM | #8 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Derwood, MD
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| We went through obedience training and definitely pay him a lot of attention at home, maybe even a bit too much. We are starting to think we are spoiling him, but he has been ok on the walks lately. I know he doesn't like the heat, so we don't take him on long walks during the day, or even at nights when it's too hot. I'm just hoping it's his "teenage" stage. |
06-17-2013, 10:46 AM | #9 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | One thing to remember is that they do go through another "fear" stage at 7-8mths old, although what you have described doesn't seem to be fear based, unless it is happening approximately either the same timeframe into your walk, and or, at the same geographic locale. As you might know I have big boy Magic, and at approx. 7.5 mths old, all of a sudden and he had come to my clinic every day since he was 8wks old, balked at walking down Yonge Street, a very busy street in downtown Toronto. I mean Friday he was fine, Monday he was not! When I went to my trainers that Wednesday and explained what had been happening, she said Gail, he is going through his last fear stage; can you walk him another way into your clinic for now? Of course I could and did. He was fine with the different approach; one week later we did our original walk to the clinic and then he was just fine!
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06-17-2013, 04:47 PM | #10 |
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| It's been pretty hot! Jackson hates to walk in the heat, too, and he is a super active dog. He just hates heat and humidity! But yes that age is also when they go through a fear stage. I kind of remember Jax being a huge PITA around that age LOL.
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06-18-2013, 04:34 PM | #11 | |
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