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04-20-2011, 12:18 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: WA
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| Can a pup be TOO attached? I got my baxter when he was just barely 7 weeks old. I didn't know much better, and in my defense, the lady had said he was almost 9 weeks. Anyway, he has always been my shadow. He is 16 weeks today, and still, my shadow. So much so that when I shower, he sits right at the shower door, and will bark until he can wedge his head in the door enough so that he can see me! I don't mind that he loves me. But I wonder if it is something I need to ween him from?
__________________ 3 kids, 3 step kids, 2 step grandkis, and a loving husband...and it's my YORKIE who is on my screensaver. =) |
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04-20-2011, 12:27 PM | #2 |
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| Question AT 16 weeks he is probably still missing his mommy and brothers and sisters. I've give him a couple more months to get settled in at his new home. Good luck. Last edited by John Stelting; 04-20-2011 at 12:28 PM. |
04-20-2011, 12:29 PM | #3 |
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| 16 weeks today....I got him when he was 7 weeks 2 days.
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04-20-2011, 12:30 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| I got my pup, ZoE, at 6 weeks & she is the same way. She's my lil shadow and follows me everywhere around the house. It's just me & her at home most times so I figured its normal. She just wants to be near me always, but doesn't have to be right on me all the time though. Right now she's laying on the couch about 6 feet from me and she's fine with that cos I'm still in her view. But when I get up to make a cup of tea in a minute..she'll follow me to the kitchen...guaranteed
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04-20-2011, 12:31 PM | #5 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Syracuse NY
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| Yorkies are like that. Belle jumps in the shower with me some mornings, she is glued to my side pretty much 24/7. She sleeps on my pillow at night, follows me from room to room, and panics when I get out of my van to fill the gas tank even though she can STILL SEE ME!!!! I often wonder if I've created a monster.... but she is ok when I leave her home with family.
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04-20-2011, 12:34 PM | #6 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: WA
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| You've both just described Baxter! If I get up to go in the kitchen, he'll follow me, and just flop on the rug waiting for me! Sometimes, he gets "mad" at me for moving around too much when he's napping on me, and will huff off to the other end of the couch, but most the time, he sleeps ON me. AND he sleeps on my pillow, too! I love that he loves me, but I dont' want to make it so he can't be away from me, you know? I don't want to do anything that will be detrimental to him as a young adult dog, you know?
__________________ 3 kids, 3 step kids, 2 step grandkis, and a loving husband...and it's my YORKIE who is on my screensaver. =) |
04-20-2011, 12:35 PM | #7 |
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| I got Riley when he was 10-weeks old. He'll be 1-year, next month and I can remember that he barely left my side or the room I was in for several months. He is not as bad, now.... |
04-20-2011, 12:36 PM | #8 |
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| I do think dogs can be too attached- although I don't know how concerned about it I would be at 16 weeks old. I think it is good for dogs to be confident enough to be left alone sometimes. There are times where I need to go out, or go away, or where the dogs need to be left at the vet or groomer. I think it is good that they are confident enough to be away from me and know I will return to get them. I would hate to have a dog that cried anytime I left the house or caused such a commotion that I had to have them supervised at every second.
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04-20-2011, 12:40 PM | #9 |
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| My pups are super attached to me...and me to them, but in a good way. They are my shadow and have to be in the same room if not right next to me, but are okay with being apart sometimes. He is so young....I wouldn't worry about it too much right now.
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04-20-2011, 12:48 PM | #10 | |
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04-20-2011, 01:15 PM | #11 |
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| I think some can be too attached so that they are really uncomfortable and ill-at-ease, even scared when we are not around or in constant attendance, but I think that is rare. Most Yorkies are "people" dogs and just love their people, want to be involved in whever we are up to, "nosy" about whatever we are doing but retain enough independence not to be super needy or "clingers", whining when you leave the room. I would not be worried about it in a puppy.
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04-20-2011, 01:41 PM | #12 |
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| I would say louie does not shadow me, but when ever my husband or my daughter takes him somewhere,or for a walk without me, he immediatly comes back and looks for me to tell me I;m back momma sooo cute!
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04-20-2011, 01:50 PM | #13 |
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| Remy is very attached to me. Got him at 6 months. He was so attached at one point he was unwilling to go with DH for a walk unless I went too. We've worked on that a lot, and have gotten to the point where I can tell him "its ok, go with ___ for a walk or to potty" and as long as I say this, off he will happily go. He is definitely my shadow, and is Jack's when I'm not around, and is my parents when they watch him. Bottomline, he is still mostly attached to me - but is comfortable and socialized with friends / family. |
04-20-2011, 02:42 PM | #14 |
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| Your pup is young, so I wouldn't be concerned at this point, but a pup can become too attached, and it can be really detrimental to their well-being. I had three little girls who were around people and children from the time they were very young. My little ones loved people, and they got particularly excited to see the neighborhood children on their daily walks. They were very friendly, so they got a lot of attention from people wherever they went. I took them with me much of the time when I was not working, so they were well socialized and loved riding in the car. They always got a lot of attention from both my husband and me. My husband always worked from our home, so they were used to having someone home with them almost all of the time. Since I am a teacher and off during the summer, the summers were particularly devoted to my girls. All three of my little girls had a difficult adjustment once I went back to work, though. One of our little ones, Kiwi, really started to suffer from depression when I went back to work. We got Kiwi four months after Ashley, and she was such a tough little girl. When our breeder asked us to take Gracie, our tiny little one, when Kiwi was a year old and Gracie was six months old, we really hesitated, since we worried about Kiwi's reaction. We gave Kiwi lots of additional love, so much that she became a mush on the inside, and she loved her little sister Gracie. Kiwi was still the animated and tough little girl on the outside, but she really became so loving and sensitive. We didn't think we could hurt Kiwi by giving her all of that love and attention, but she became so dependent on my husband and me. Even though she had my husband and her two sisters home with her, she waited each day watching the front door for me to come home from work and would not play. I started to read books on dog's emotions, and we did everything we could to make her feel secure. When I was around, Kiwi was as happy as can be. There was such a sparkle in her eyes, and it looked like she was smiling all of the tim. My other two girls idolized her, particularly Gracie. When I wasn't with her, Kiwi was so sad. After a while, we wouldn't leave her to go away on vacation because she would get such severe colitis that she would wind up hospitalized. Ashley and Gracie also were too dependent on us, but not to the extreme of Kiwi. We know we will always give a little one of ours a lot of love and attention, but I think we'll be more careful in the future.
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04-20-2011, 05:15 PM | #15 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Texas, USA
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| Both my girls follow me EVERYWHERE! and i love it... funny thing is Melody will literally JUMP IN the shower w me!!! i have to force her out EVERY day.... and then both of them will stick their faces thru the curtain and wait until i am done... is too cute!!
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