|
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 |
11-16-2008, 04:24 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 556
| Aggressive Puppy As some of you may know, I got Canyon a brother on Friday. He's adorable but we are having some problems and I'm looking for advice. Canyon is extremely passive and loving. The new puppy is rather aggressive and dominant. Canyon is 6 1/2 months, the new puppy (Phoenix) is 3 1/2 months. They've gotten along pretty well for the past two days. Today however (Phoenix) the new puppy has become really agressive and their playing has turned into Phoenix the new guy charging Canyon and backing him into a corner and biting him to where Canyon yelps each and every time. there is growling going on from the new puppy and he is relentless in his pursuit as Canyon is running from him and hunkering his butt down with his back to the new puppy. As soon as Canyon moves, the puppy charges him again and gets Canyon by the ear, tail, throat, whatever and won't let go. I've had to pull him off of Canyon several times as Canyon seems afraid and he's yelping from being bitten. Is there something I'm doing wrong, is it a personality clash. I know Phoenix is being a puppy but it's like he never learned that when one yelps, that means it's time to stop playing so hard. I'm afraid Canyon will get hurt and I know that might sound silly but if he's running away and hunkering down and the new puppy keeps coming and even after Canyon yelps, the new puppy doesn't stop. How do I stop this behavior, what do I do? |
Welcome Guest! | |
11-16-2008, 05:59 PM | #2 | |
YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Missouri Ozarks
Posts: 452
| Quote:
__________________ Paris Sophie Bogus Maximus Chezzer Macy Gissimo | |
11-16-2008, 06:11 PM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 556
| Thank you - I've had to grab him by the scruff tonight twice and get in his face and growl making eye contact saying "no bite" and held him until he stopped struggling and put him back down. He's not gone back over to Canyon immediately. He settles and then a little while later, he does it again. I will continue to do this until he learns that this behavior is not acceptable. |
11-16-2008, 06:25 PM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 556
| Also He drinks water excessively, to the extreme and urinates every 5 mins. It's clear, not yellow, almost as if the water just runs right through him. He drinks 2 - 3 bowls of water per day and I know he's a puppy and they potty ALOT as I've just gone through the Puppy Potty Alot phase but this is the extreme. I'm on my second roll of paper towels since Friday cleaning up urine. He also urinates in his crate at night (though slight) on his blanket, it's like he can't hold it for any length of time. I'm trying to find information on google as to why a puppy would drink so much and urinate so much. I'll be making a vet appt for tomorrow to try to find out why or if this is a health issue. |
11-16-2008, 06:34 PM | #5 |
Dogs Rule Cats Drool! Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 7,895
| You can also see how dominate he is by hold him on his back, if he struggles and doesn't calm down after a few minutes, he is very dominate, so when he does that again with Canyon hold him down on his back and let Canyon stand over him for a few minutes.
__________________ KIM |
11-16-2008, 06:36 PM | #6 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 556
| Thanks Peanut - I'll try that too. I want this to work out. |
11-17-2008, 03:15 AM | #7 | |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Havre de Grace, MD
Posts: 1,536
| Quote:
Let us know what your vet finds. A UTI is an easy cure. Good luck.
__________________ Niko (3 yrs) Gus (5 yrs) Squirt (17 yrs - RIP) | |
Bookmarks |
|
|
Thread Tools | |
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart