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12-11-2014, 08:41 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: west haven, ct
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| Protective or Jealous? Our nearly 8-year-old yorkie, Sargie, has taken to going after my husband whenever he knows he is going to kiss me (either goodnight or good morning). My husband says he is being overly protective of me. When he comes back into the bedroom in the morning, for example, the dog wakes up and goes up to the pillow to keep him away, and will try to nip, which he never does with anyone, usually. We've had him since he was 4 months old, and he only started this in the past year. However, he loves my husband, and usually wags that tail and licks my husband's face (which he rarely does with me). I thought the dog was being overprotective of me AND jealous of my husband getting attention from me, but now I am wondering if he is jealous of me and not my husband - he doesn't want my husband to show attention to me instead of to him! By the way, if I initiate the kiss, Sargie doesn't bat an eyelash. I know many Yorkie owners have this sort of issue...overly protective or jealousy (and of whom) or both? |
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12-12-2014, 05:07 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Hi and welcome to YT ! Hmmmm...very interesting. I think you may be onto something in that maybe his jealousy is bc the hubby is giving you the attention, and not him..?
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12-12-2014, 09:14 AM | #4 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: west haven, ct
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| "Resource Guarding" I was reading up on overprotective dogs and it says they are guarding their resource (you, the person who gives them everything good for free). Evidently it's a hallmark of "undisciplined, spoiled" dogs, adjectives to which Yorkies are prone because of their innate CUTENESS! That would make sense (although it's my husband who gives him too many treats - he starts barking the minute Michael comes home because he knows he will just toss one on the floor, whereas I will make him sit, wait, raise a paw, etc.) - and maybe it's my husband whom he sees as the resource now (although I do all the feeding, grooming, petting, walking, etc.). Odd, because if he has a choice he will always go with me. If we are in different rooms he follows me. No matter how comfy he is wherever my husband is if I leave that room and he realizes I am not returning, I hear the little "plop" from the perch and the "tick-tick-tick" of the footprints coming to be with me. For a while I thought he was just jealous of both of us and wanted to get in on the action (he would push his face between ours if he was in a position to, say on the back of the sofa when we were on it) but as I said, now I think he is perhaps wanting my husband to give him the attention instead of giving it to me. Amazes me how some scientists still insist that dogs do not have emotions and that this is all instinctive. New book, "Dog Sense", talks about how recent studies have shown that dogs do have emotions, and jealousy is one of them. Something we puppy people have known forever! |
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