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01-03-2015, 04:17 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Jackson
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| Scared of coffee maker I hope someone can help me, my yorkie seems to be afraid of my new coffee maker. He pants and shakes now, does not want to go in the kitchen in the morning. I am trying to desensitize him, but I am not getting anywhere. I tried walking him around the house on a leash to show him nothing is wrong, but that did not seem to work. I tried calling him into the kitchen to get a treat. But he refuses to come. Please any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. |
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01-03-2015, 04:24 PM | #2 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Elkridge, MD, USA
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| I would like to know the answer to this since my puppy is afraid of the garbage disposal, dish washer, washing machine when it's agitating, and the biggest one, the vacuum cleaner where he went and hid in a closet lol. |
01-03-2015, 08:29 PM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: TX USA
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| Noise sensitivity is unfortunatley fairly common in herding breeds (which is what I have had for decades). I found this article to get you all started in dealing with it. I wish you all the best, it can be rather frustrating. Fear of Noises | ASPCA |
01-03-2015, 11:26 PM | #4 |
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| How old is your dog? My boy is/was afraid of everything. I have found that just ignoring any behavior which is inappropriate to the situation i.e. fear of the vacuum means that he adjusts himself in his own time. He's grownout of a lot of behavior (like fear of noises) in the last few months. He is now 15 months old. I think attempting to use treats in conjunction with the noise is a good idea but if that is not working then maybe it is something he will move past on his own once the novelty of the new machine has worn off. I'd recommend looking at the site that someone else above has posted for you, too. |
01-04-2015, 06:27 AM | #5 |
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| This may or may not help, but my yorkie girl comes up to me as soon as she hears the coffee machine going (or the can of whipped cream), so she actually likes the sound (but then I got one of the Kuerigs, it's not real noisy). I usually have whipped cream on my coffee and I'll usually give her a little dab as she just loves the stuff. My other two jacks began to notice this and started to try and get in on it too ^^;; Granted I know this isn't the most healthiest of treats but it's her only real guilty pleasure that she gets most of the time in the mornings :3 You may try a tiny bit for her a few times to get her to associate with the whipped cream can (and the location) while near the machine when not in use and then start using it around the coffee machine when in use. It also doesn't have to be whipped cream, but it'll have to be something that'll be uniquely used around the coffee machine (or any other scarey noisy spots). I find sometimes using treats they normally get won't always work unless they are really food motivated or it happens to be their most favorite treat. So something a bit different and when they can only get under certain circumstances would make it more of a "rare" treat that they might do more for Aside from that, later investing in a less noisy coffee machine might work ^^;;
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01-04-2015, 07:34 AM | #6 | |
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01-04-2015, 09:45 AM | #7 |
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| Mine used to run away when the vacuum was running. I just kept explaining it was to clean dirt and wouldn't hurt them and continuing to vac and let them adjust their positions. Before long, Mia was attacking the vac, playing...now both girls do. If I needed to vac where they were, I would pick them up, vac that area, then put them back down where they started from. Brody now just sits and waits and watches, then hops onto my hand to be picked up...I carry him while vac'ing where he was, then put him back down there. Of course, we have been practicing this for several years now...LOL
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01-05-2015, 03:16 PM | #8 |
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| LOL, glad I'm not the only one that indulges them with whipped cream XD She'll start being demanding if I start shaking it and not give her some immediately. She'll cry pitifully, as if she'll starve or die without it ^^;; The other two have started to bolt into the kitchen as soon as they hear the can going.
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01-05-2015, 07:27 PM | #9 | |
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01-06-2015, 09:20 AM | #10 | |
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01-06-2015, 01:31 PM | #11 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | When Roxy was young, she was like this with the dishwasher. It is really super quiet, & I couldn't figure out why it spooked her. So one night after I started it, & she was in her fear mode, I picked her up & went & sat on the floor leaning right up against the dishwasher. Talked go her quietly, gave her occasional treats when she started calming down. We sat there for quite some time, but after she was completely calm for several minutes I let her go, she was fine & hasn't acted like she even hears it ever since. It was like she realized somehow that it was OK and there was nothing to fear. Issue over and done with! Yayyy!!!
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01-06-2015, 07:56 PM | #12 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: TX USA
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| Makes for awesome bribery... uhr, motivation It's motivation, pure and simple. Uh huh, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. My dogs are not spoiled *cough*choke* (at times I am very motivated to bribe them lol) |
01-07-2015, 03:34 PM | #13 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Jackson
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| Sorry I have not been on for a while. Buddy is 2 years old and I have noticed that he is now pulling away from going in the house after our morning walk. I have to keep him on the leash and persuade him to come in the house with me. Another new thing he is doing, he starts panting and shaking during the day and he will stare into the kitchen and nothing is running, the house is quite. I was going to keep him on the leash and have him stay with me in the kitchen. |
01-07-2015, 04:46 PM | #14 | |
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Or you could toss a ball or play tugowar or whatever he loves doing during the coffee-making sessions or any time you see him beginning to worry about the coffee-machine in the kitchen - all to distract him and give him better associations with the scary machine. When he begins to pull on the leash, either stop dead in your tracks and don't move forward until the leash goes slack or walk him in the opposite direction - each and every time he pulls. Do either one matter-of-factly and not in anger - just stay in teacher mode, confident and calm. You might say "uh oh" or "no" when he starts to pull but during training don't shout or discipline him for pulling as you are retraining him what will happen if he pulls. In about two weeks of doing this, he will begin to learn that leash-pulling will just stop him from getting to where he's trying to go so he'll begin to police himself and learn in time not to pull. Once he learns not to pull, I'd treat and praise once he gets in the house without pulling.
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01-13-2015, 03:57 PM | #15 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Jackson
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| Update on Buddy We definitely narrowed it down to the new coffee maker. I tried all the suggestions and thank you all so much. But the only thing that worked was putting back the old coffee maker. When I had the new coffee maker on, I was sitting on the kitchen floor with Buddy and he was fine, but there are time when the coffee maker makes a very low clicking noise, I assume it may be the thermostat. He is about 90% back to normal. Since I know for sure what it is, I will start to introduce the new coffee maker a little at a time, but I am going to wait a couple of months. Again thx. |
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