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01-03-2006, 11:01 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2005
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| Desperately seeking advice regarding kids and yorkies We adopted Lucky just before her second birthday and she will be three soon. We know that her former home had older children and the Humane Society thought that based on the temperament testing they did, she should be fine with all children; however, on New Year's day, we went to my parents' home and had several people over, including small children. The kids were running around together and Lucky charged them, barked, and even growled, much like she does with other dogs. She is an extra large yorkie (10 lbs!) and could harm a child, so I quickly snatched her up and restrained her out of fear that she would bite one of them. Why did she do this? Did her prey drive kick in? More importantly, can I stop this behavior or will I always have to separate her from young children when they are playing excitedly? This could be a problem since I plan to have children over the next few years. I should note that she did not seem to have any problems with the children until they were running around. |
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01-03-2006, 11:07 AM | #2 |
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| i just think i puppy was excited and wanted to play with them . i know when i run around and my nieces run around, my dog run around and barks and goes after our feet and might nip, but thats just playing...thats only my input..
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01-03-2006, 11:16 AM | #3 |
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| Some yorkies do not do well with children. My female is a good example of this. She will growl at my daughter at times and doesnt like loud noises or when my daughter is being too active. She will either hide or want My husband or I to hold her. My other yorkie is just fine with children.
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01-03-2006, 12:01 PM | #4 |
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| I have a Westie who is 9 months and a Yorkie who is 6 months. I also have 8 grandchildren who range in age from 4 to 20 years of age. My dogs love all my grandkids. I always make sure my little ones know they must be good to the animals. Although, that has never been a problem as they love the dogs. Jasmine, our Yorkie, absolutely loves all the kids. She adores the 13 year old and the two 7 year old and the 4 year old. When they spend the night she even wants to sleep with them and desert mommy and daddy's bed. Small children must be taught to always be good to the animals. We have always had pets and our children were taught this from day one. The animals were also taught that they could not bite or hurt the children in anyway. I used to babysit my brothers twin girls when they were small and our little Lhaso was a puppy. No matter how closely I watched the girls I would catch them being mean to the puppy. Consequently, he was the only dog we ever had who did not like young children. Sometimes dogs who are raised with older owners who rarely have young children around will not like to be around children. We had a beautiful Himalayan Persian cat a few years ago who did not like my grandchildren. We got her as a kitten and the kids were never mean to her but she got so she would try to bite them if they even came close to her. I found her a good home with some people I knew who had no children or grandchildren and they absolutely adored the cat. They gave her a really good home. Even though I liked her, My grandchildren had to come first. I could not do anything about her biting. |
01-03-2006, 01:21 PM | #5 |
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| Do you ever watch the Dog Whisperer? He is a dog behavior specialist on National Geographic channel. It's so interesting I record it. Last night I watched 2 episodes and though the problems were different the solution was the same. Teaching the dog that they are not the pack leaders. Not an expert on how you go about that but it's more of a behavior issue than something you could get through training class. This guy is real big on putting the dogs on leashes and not allowing agressive or dominent behavior of any kind. http://channel.nationalgeographic.co.../dogwhisperer/ |
01-03-2006, 04:59 PM | #7 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Texas
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| My dog is really good with older kids but, doesn't like my niece and nephew that are 3 and 7. He barks and growls at them. I had to put him in his crate on Thanksgiving because he kept growling and running at them. I don't think that he would bite them but I didn't want to take a chance. But he is fine with 8 and up. He does bark and growl when my eight year old runs around and is loud. But we just tell him no. I don't know why he is like this because he was around alot of kids and adults when he was younger. He didn't start acting like this until around 6mo. of age. Good Luck..
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01-04-2006, 10:35 AM | #8 | |
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01-04-2006, 10:39 AM | #9 | |
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01-04-2006, 12:08 PM | #10 |
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| I chalk this up to all the excitement. I have two children one who is 7 and the other 14, when they start running through the house with there friends my two yorkies Daisy and Rocky start barking. The dogs want to join in on the fun and of course be the center of attention. At times my male has grawled and I'm really quick give a stearn "No Rocky"..Right away he will no he has done wrong and will go into a wimper. Really important to let them know you will not stand for the grawl. If you think Lucky needs a little more socializing then a trip to the park once a week might do the trick. Lucky will get lots of love and attention and you of course are right there to correct Lucky if a grawl is sensed to come out. From my experience Yorkies are great with children but it take some effort on the parent to condition and socialize the Yorkie for kids. Also when I'm at the park I try and not have children under 5 pickup Rocky or Daisy...Sometimes small children don't understand how fragil Yorkies are. Best of luck |
01-04-2006, 01:04 PM | #11 |
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| Sounds to me like she just wanted to play. Gus does this too. When ever he hears or sees the kids running and playing outside, he runs door to door trying to get out so he can play too. We do alot of rough play here too and he always wants to get in the fun too. Just yesterday my husband came home while I was getting Gus out of the sink after a bath. He brought in my sons football that he left outside and started rough playing with my son the minute he walked in the door. No kiss hello, no saying hi to anyone,,, just play. Gus was so excited he was trying all he could to get out of my arms to play too. I had him wrapped in a towel trying to blowdry him and he was barking the whole time. I finally had to kick them outside to play but Gus still was going crazy. Learning your yorkies different barks is just like learning your human baby cries. I don't have problems with Gus with older kids, but him and Cherish (my 3 year old niece) can really get on eachothers nerves. I was really scared he would hurt her but after all this time they both have learned what the can and can't get away with. When Cherish startes to bug he will growl at her. And will jump at her. He has never bit her but it does scare her. Just the other day Gus was sleeping on my lap and Cherish went to go pet him. I don't know how he knew but as soon as she put her hand on him, he started growling. He only does with her. You should see her get all hurt. She yells,,,,,, I'm just trying to pet you Gus!!!!! Although he's never bitten her I still keep a close eye on the both of them. He does like her and will go sit on her lap BUT she can't force him. Like I said,,, It sounds like she wanted to play.
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01-04-2006, 03:26 PM | #12 |
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| It is interesting that some of you have suggested that she just wanted to play. I hope you are right! We do play rough with her and she does bark and growl when we play. It was just a frightening sight to see her charge the kids and growl, particularly since one of the kids is barely bigger than she is. |
01-04-2006, 03:34 PM | #13 |
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| Does she seem to be jealous when you are holding her? My little 4 lb male is so jealous. I have tried a few things but as he gets older seems to get worse. He is especially jealous of my 8 year old. If my son comes up to me when the dog is sitting in my lap he will bark and growl like a warning. But if he is not on my lap he will sit with my son and also play with him. My son also feeds him and takes him out to potty and gives him treats. I just don't understand Cowboy acting like this. I hoped he would get better after I had him fixed. But, I think he has gotten worse. I just watch him really close and if my son has friends over we tell them not to try and pick him up. My son has always been supervised while playing with Cowboy and told from day 1 that no teasing or being mean to Cowboy would be tolerated. So, he is very sad that Cowboy is this way towards him. Any suggestions???
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01-05-2006, 10:09 AM | #14 | |
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01-05-2006, 10:17 AM | #15 | |
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I think you're right on that one! If the children were running around, I bet she just wanted to play.Who knows, Yorkies are so smart she might have been trying to tell the kids not to run in the house.
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