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01-05-2014, 12:08 PM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Alabama
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| Questions to which I need answers Hi Everyone, My questions are: 1. Why does my little Yorkie, Milo, want to eat only if I'm watching him? 2. Why is he 100% house trained but whenever I go into a store (Petsmart, Lowe's, etc) he wants to hike his leg & pee on something? BTW, 99.99% of the time I have caught him before he can actually complete his action. Thanks for any input! |
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01-05-2014, 12:51 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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| 1) mine is the same. I stopped catering to that, since I can't spend 30 mins every morning getting him to eat. Not enough time in the morning before work for that nonsense. Now I throw a toy, which he "kills" and happily goes off to eat his food. 2) I think it's harder for the pups to resist marking in pets stores due to all the smells. It smells like a park in there with all the little critters in the cages and all the other dogs that have gone in there and whose owners did not stop them from marking everything.
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01-05-2014, 12:53 PM | #3 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: King County, WA
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| I'm just guessing here. Our dog eats with more vigor if I'm in the kitchen with him because he thinks I'm going to eat his food. We call it "The Food Game." I can understand the pet store marking. There are lots of other dogs that do the same thing in there. Think of it as you smelling a wonderful perfume or aftershave on someone. Your pet is merely giving the scent a "compliment" LOL. It's called marking their territory but which one sounds like more fun? |
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01-05-2014, 07:56 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Land of Oz
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| At least your does not wait till bedtime run get a mouthful and run into your bedroom jump on your bed and place the pile at your feet going back and forth till he has a mountain then eating it in your bed while you are trying to sleep
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01-05-2014, 08:38 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Kaji does that with water. At 10 pm he usually gets up to drink the entire contents of his water bowl. I'm a light sleeper so that wakes me up every night.
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01-06-2014, 01:39 AM | #8 |
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| Huey wants me to watch him eat, too. In the mornings, he will grab a bite while I am in the bedroom, but if I go to the den, he follows me & won't eat any more until I return to the room with the food. As for the water, though, I keep a glass of ice water next to my bed, and I have to share the ice with Huey every time I go to bed. I drink water, eat a piece of ice & he sits on my pillow and makes little squeeky noises until I give him ice, too. This usually goes on for 10 min before I can put the water down & go to sleep!
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01-06-2014, 08:31 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Northern VA
Posts: 3,192
| Zoey sometimes won't eat unless I sit right in front of her bowl. When she was a young pup, I had to hand feed her for a while b/c she was sick. She did grow out of it but obviously, not completely. She only does it sometimes so I don't know what sets it off. |
01-06-2014, 11:42 AM | #10 |
YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Alabama
Posts: 371
| Ha Ha. You're right. I am thankful that I don't have that issue! |
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