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10-27-2009, 10:45 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Erath, LA, USA
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| Older dog with a bad temper Our Yorkie is 7 years old. We have had him since he was just a little puppy. Lately I've notice a few things going on with him and was wondering if anyone had any advice for us. First, he coughs and chokes a lot. I asked the vet about it and she checked his trachea and said it was find. It's really scary when he does that because there's nothing I can do for him. It has started to happen a lot more often lately. Which leads me into the bad temper part. For some reason our Yorkie has decided that it's okay to potty in the house. He's had accidents before, but this is really unusual for him. He knows that he does wrong because he will go and hide in the closet. Well, Saturday night he was hiding in the closet and I went to get him. I was talking nice to him because I could see him shaking and his lip moving. I wasn't fussing at him at all. When I went to grab him he bit me! So I ended up just leaving him there. Well, Monday afternoon I get home from work and my poor little baby is outside on the porch in the kennel. He had pottied in the house again and my husband had tried to go and pick him up when he was hiding under the desk this time and he bit him and made him bleed. I don't understand why he is doing this. He knows he is doing wrong and if we try and say bad dog, he just snaps and starts growling and will bit if you put your hand too close to him. I have been trying to pay less attention to him lately because we are trying to have our first child and I'm not sure if this is triggering this temper tantrums or not. Also, we have an outside cat that has been in the family for two years now. He comes in the house when it's raining. It's been raining a lot over here lately, and I'm not sure if maybe that could also be why our Yorkie is acting out. And advice that anyone has would be greatly appreciated! |
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10-27-2009, 10:50 AM | #2 |
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| I would contact his vet and tell him about the situation. I can't offer any advice but I hope everything turns out ok.
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10-27-2009, 10:58 AM | #3 |
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| My first thought would be to have him checked out by your vet. He may be sick in some way and can't tell you. If this is totally out of his behavior that would be my guess. It does sound like he's sick. |
10-27-2009, 11:00 AM | #4 | |
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I think he is a lot smarter than the credit you are giving him. He probably senses a change in your attitude towards him. Perhaps he's also developing allergies (the coughing and choking) some Yorkies do tend to do that. Even people develop allergies as they age, and sometimes vets can overlook issues. If he's not feeling like himself and he senses your change in attitude towards him he will have potty accidents. He's needing your attention in a new and improved way. People change as they age and so do animals. Check with a behavior specialist, if you can. Best of luck to you and your Yorkie baby. | |
10-27-2009, 11:03 AM | #5 |
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| I think if your dog is coughing and choking a lot, it could still be his trachea. It may not be at the level were the voice box is. The collapse could be lower into the chest where it cannot be manipulated so as to encourage the cough to get a true diagnosis. Having said that if it is not causing him to pass out and he it is not causing him any physical distress than there is not much they can do about it. if it gets worse they can give him pills to help him breathe or do surgery. As far as the biting, I believe what is going on here is fear aggression. Dogs will nip and bite when they are fearful. There are a lot of articles off the internet you can read about fear aggression. I don't think that putting him in a crate will stop the behavior. I don't buy that your dog "knows" he is doing something wrong, otherwise he would not be doing the behavior. He is not connecting the punishment with the behavior. That may be why he runs and hides. He knows that he gets punished (not why) and runs to avoid it. The whole thing may be stressing him out. Please reassess your disciplining techniques and read on how you can help your little one over the fear aggression. His is not to be blamed. He is only protecting himself.
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10-27-2009, 11:16 AM | #6 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Erath, LA, USA
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| Thank You I would like to thank everyone for their quick responses. I will definitely take everyone's opinions into consideration because we need to get to the root of this problem and solve it before it gets any worse. |
10-28-2009, 05:53 PM | #7 |
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| How is your baby doing?
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11-04-2009, 10:47 AM | #8 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Erath, LA, USA
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| Vet visit yesterday I took Bailey to the vet yesterday and the problems I asked about. He said that he is pretty sure it's just behavioral and he guesses that he is acting this way because I am trying to spend less time with him and in his eyes I am his "mate". He thinks he is just getting upset about this and acting out. He told us to make sure that when he does snap at us to use a rolled up newspaper to correct him, just to hit the ground next to him to make him stop so that he doesn't start to think that he is the dominant "dog" in the house. He said it's best to make sure we can correct this problem now before a baby comes into the household so that the problem doesn't get worse. As far as the choking/coughing goes he felt his trachea and said it's possible that it may be getting weak but he doesn't suggest doing anything at this time. He said that when we do see him coughing to clap our hands so that he will pause and his airway will open again. He did notice that he is developing cataracts in his right eye though. But that's to be expected, he will be 8 in April. So hopefully everything will start getting better, when people ask how he's doing I just say that I'm looking for a good doggy shrink! LoL! |
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