|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
07-18-2007, 04:46 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ames, IA
Posts: 13
| Fighting I dont even know if this belongs in the training section, but I thought it would fit best. I know yorkies think theyre bigger than they are, but we have 1 actual yorkie, which is about 3 months, and a yorkiepoo which is about 11 months. Normally on a daily basis they they run around and chase each other and wrestle a little bit, usually play with toys together, nothing too bad. The real bad part is when ANY guest comes over, they battle soon as they walk in the door, usually they growl and wrestle really hard for like 5-10 seconds and they stop, that is if I cant intervene fast enough. Tonight was a different story though, tonight we had someone came over and they fought so hard I was scared they were really gonna do some damage to each other. I read that if you clap your hands or do something to startle them they will stop, and it usually works, but tonight they woudlnt stop until I literally pulled them apart, and they were holding on to each others hair, it was bad. I wanna put a stop to this here and now ESPECIALLY before anyone gets hurt. Any Ideas? |
Welcome Guest! | |
07-18-2007, 04:51 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Jacksonville, NC
Posts: 1,133
| It sounds like they need to be calm before guests can enter or before they can be allowed to greet guests since that seems to be what brings this behavior on. Maybe seperate them and practice having someone come over so you can snap them out of it before they let loose?
__________________ |
07-18-2007, 04:58 PM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ames, IA
Posts: 13
| I know, I might try holding on to one of them and make them take turns, but when I am holding them and someone comes over they try and wiggle their way out of your arms. It is fine after they both get attention, but up until that its bad, all I know is that I cant and wont allow this to continue! While they are cute, theyre even cuter when they behave |
07-18-2007, 05:09 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Jacksonville, NC
Posts: 1,133
| have you seen the Dog Whisperer? I think the way Cesar does it is he snaps them out of that state of mind before allowing them to continue.
__________________ |
07-19-2007, 06:27 AM | #5 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: American in London
Posts: 1,739
| Why don't you try baby-gating them away from the front door when you are expecting a guest? I bet keeping them back from the excitement would help.
__________________ FirstYorkie We Love Clicker-Training! |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart