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07-18-2015, 01:20 AM | #1 |
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| Dominence problem I wonder if someone could give me some advice, I have two female yorkies whom my husband and I love equally, they are very much part of our daily lives, sleep in the bed with us, sit on the furniture and are mostly inside dogs!! They are 4 and five years old!! However in the last year they have steadily begun fighting with each other, there seems to be a huge jealousy / pecking order problem. The one won't even allow the other to go onto the bed and the fights are really aggressive and heart breaking, both my husband and I have been bitten trying to separate them!! Apparently when we are not home during the day they dont fight!! Any advice would be appreciated before I contact a behaviour specialist!! My vet says this is uncommon in yorkies and its a dominance problem!! |
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07-18-2015, 03:32 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | I think this kind of thing can happen w/ almost any type of breed, I don't think yorkies are an exclusion to this or anything. Have you tried using a Bark Genie for correction? It may help. Also when breaking up fights...you want to either pull one dog away by the back legs, or, push a pillow or other object btwn them. Could also try a can of pennies or nails - shake the can to really startle them out of their behavior.
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07-18-2015, 01:08 PM | #3 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | Which ever dog is up on the bed and goes to snarl, bark, bite at the next dog trying to come up - you immediately remove that dog from the bed - with appropriate correction and crate her. Then let the other one come up. Walk the two on lead together and if there is any aggression correct it. Start to re-inforce the obedience commands you must have trained into them like sit come stay walk easy on lead leave it ignore and STOP
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07-18-2015, 10:00 PM | #4 |
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| Haven't posted in a long while. I have a 4 year old Yorkie & 2 year old Biewer Terrier. My pups got along great until my little Biewer came into heat. She's since been spayed but both dogs have issues with each other. For the past year, they've been living on separate floors since they automatically attack when they get near. I've recently hired a trainer who has gotten them to walk together. My family just took a vacation & our dogs were kept in separate rooms at a doggie daycare. The facility was very nice and had a large open area where small dogs could hang out for a few hours every day. We were able to watch this on webcam. I asked the facility to keep the dogs separate. After the first day, the owner called me & asked whether she could try to bring them to the open area with the other dogs. Well, while there, the two of them acted like BFFs the whole time! They stayed right next to each other while in the play area. If one dog walked to the other side, the other one followed. I guess it was a little of the old "devil you know" kind of thing. We picked up the pups on Friday. They laid next to each other in the car. However - after a day at home, they've started at each other again. They'll walk together. But that "stare" comes out when they're in a room together, then the barks, then the attack. It's a dominance issue for sure. And the trainer believes its really the humans' fault that this all happened. Now, it's going to take a long time to undo. So, my only suggestion to you is to handle this issue as swiftly as possible. Correct the behavior when it happens. Look for the signs, like ears going back or that stare or growl. Stop it & let both dogs know that you're the Alpha - not them. Good luck! |
07-20-2015, 06:58 AM | #5 |
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| I had sort of the same issue with my yorkie and my cat. My yorkie would go after my cat. What i used to do is everytime this happened, I would put Duchess in the powder room. She hated being in the powder room so after a few times of doing this she gradually stopped going after the cat. However I nipped this in the bud from the very start so it didn't take her as long to stopped her from doing it. However the cat was extremely smart. She use to pick a fight with Duchess and and of course I would put Duchess in time out not realizing it was the cat starting it. I actually saw the cat take a few swats and Duchess, Duchess would get excited and start barking while the cat would jump up to some placehigh place looking down on Duchess and thinking "what an idiot". Anybody who has cats knows how they can sometimes be jerks. All this time I thought it was Duchess.....mean evil cat plotting ways to get rid of Duchess |
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