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12-30-2015, 07:53 PM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: B.C. and Scottsdale, AZ
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| Are any of your pups scared of being picked up? Lacy is a real sweetie, but will NEVER let me pick her up if she can help it. This is really bothering me. I do not know if this is common behavior for puppies as I have only ever had one puppy before, about 20 years ago. She sleeps in her Iris pen at night next to my bed. When I get up in the morning, and go over to her, she is so excited and jumps up against the pen to touch my hand. But as soon as I go to pick her up, she backs away to the far side of the pen where I can't reach her. And if I walk away, she immediately cries, she does not want me to leave without her, but if I go back to pick her up she backs away again. When we are in the kitchen, and I go to her to pick her up, she backs away, all the time. She will never let me pat her, she will never let me pick her up. If I sit on the floor and hold out a treat for her, after about a minute of coaxing, she will come and get the treat, but is very tentative, she always seems scared. When she is about to get the treat, if I put up my other hand to pick her up, she immediately backs away. And then she cries, because she wants the treat. When I am on the computer, she is constantly putting her paws on my leg as if she wants me to pick her up, but as soon as I reach down to her she backs away. I know she WANTS to come to me, especially when I have a treat in my hand, but she seems really scared of being picked up. I just do not understand it. Am totally baffled. I know she is not scared of ME, as when I sit and watch TV, I put her in the chair next to mine, which has a very soft blanket and her treats, and she always jumps over onto my lap and will not leave my lap while I watch tv. So she is very comfortable being in my lap, and will stay there for a couple of hours, even if I put her back on her chair, she refuses to stay there, and jumps back on my lap. She is just afraid for me to pick her up. When we had to leave for the vet's yesterday, it took me a good 5 minutes before I was able to pick her up, as she runs under the kitchen table and I cannot get to her. This is very frustrating. And very upsetting as I want to pick her up many times a day for a cuddle, like I did with Chanel, but she always runs away. So we never get any cuddles. I don't understand this behavior! Is this just normal puppy behavior??? How can I get her to be comfortable with me picking her up? Has anyone experienced this with their puppy?
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12-30-2015, 08:02 PM | #2 |
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| Yes. Buddybear does this less frequently than he used to. I got aggravated with him one day and got my gruff voice and pointed to feet area and said COME HERE. He immediately came to me and I picked him up. Less of a problem as he gets older. Good luck.
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12-30-2015, 08:05 PM | #3 |
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| Thanks, Jennifer, "it became less of a problem as he got older", is what I wanted to hear!
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12-30-2015, 10:23 PM | #4 |
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| I got my Spicey when she was 5 mo. she is now 16 mo and has always backed away from me when I went to pick her up. She would get as far away as possible. Then she started just rolling on her back and I would pick her up from there. This last month she will actually come to me to be picked up!! When I would leave and come back she would just bark at me as if telling me off. She has seen how my little JR greets me and she now greets me the same way. She will act excited and wait for me to pick her up from her pen and we hug and kiss and she gets a treat just like my Sugar does. So I would definitely say with time the little imps do change. Spice didnt use to be very affectionate at all but is getting more so. |
12-31-2015, 01:27 AM | #5 |
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| Zoey did that back up thing for months and months when I first got her at 13 weeks. She just recently started to put herself in position for me to pick her from her enclosed area. It use to drive me crazy that she would back up every time I would try to pick her up, but she seems to have figured out that the only way she can get out of the enclosure is to come to me to get picked up. All said and done, when she is out of her little area she loves to play and cuddle with me, so I don't think it matters that they do that little "back up thing" I think it's just a one of those little "Yorkie" quirkes. Zoey also still runs, and runs around the house when she is let loose and I have to corner her to pick her up. I think she loves to run free and wants to have me chase her. She always comes when I call her and then runs again when I reach down to pick her up. She is a little over a year old and still loves running free. I guess it will take some time before she settles down and comes to me without taking off again. So, "YES" to your question I think this is common behavior for puppies. |
12-31-2015, 05:03 AM | #6 |
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| From the day I brought her home, I would call Piper to me, then give her a little pat, period. Same thing if sitting on couch, she'd stand, got a pat, period. For the better part of year, when Piper would come, she'd lumber at me, head down, remind me for all the world of a little steer! These days (though coming when called is in and of itself still a huge work in progress), Piper will ask to be picked-up by standing on my leg and even tapping if I'm not quick enough. I can scoop her up at will without her becoming stiff. I can hear how sad and distressed Lacy's behavior makes you feel, and in spite of knowing better intellectually, I take everything with Piper very personally...but WE KNOW IT'S NOT US, right?! It'll be ok and she'll be accepting (and probably demanding) of being picked-up, etc., before too long. We just love them sooo much... |
12-31-2015, 08:25 AM | #7 |
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| Zoey snuggles in bed with me and will sit on my lap all day long but try to pick her up and forgetaboutit! She turned six yesterday and has always been like this. Sometimes she gets off the bed at night to use her pee pad and usually jumps back up but lately she has barked for me to pick her up. I pat the side of the bed and she comes over but when I try to pick her up she backs away. Frustrating to say the least. I just ordered her stairs for the bed. She had better use them or stop that nighttime barking. I understand your frustration but she may not change. My darling Gina would freeze when I said "assume the position" to put her harness on. Their personalities are so different.
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12-31-2015, 08:40 AM | #8 |
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| Max as an adult likes to play hard to get. He gives in pretty easily, so I think it is partly just game playing with him. Teddy always comes when called and gets into the pick up position. He cracks me up. Lacy probably isn't fearful of being picked up, but maybe concerned it will mean doing something she would rather not do -- like grooming, bath, or something like that? Practice picking her up for just a moment and putting her back down often. I still do this with my boys so that they don't associate picking up with loss of freedom or doing things that they aren't excited to do.
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12-31-2015, 12:27 PM | #9 |
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| Emma didn't like being picked up as a puppy but she's likes it now and will request it in certain scenarios.
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01-01-2016, 04:04 PM | #10 |
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| Cooper will back away, but if he wants to be picked up he usually just flattens himself to the floor and stiffens. He acts like he's been dropped before. Every time he is picked up he stiffens like a board and grabs or tries to grab with his claws. Once he is up he snuggles right in. He's 5 months now and it has not got better. |
01-01-2016, 07:54 PM | #11 |
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| How old is she and how long have you had her? Maybe someone else dropped her before so she's scared. I've also found that the tinies are scared of people other than their owner picking them up. Must be scary if you are that small and a strange person goes to pick you up, but you are her owner, so that can't be it. Uni also comes to me when I'm on the computer and taps my leg. When I go to pick her up she backs off. For her, it's not that she wants up, it's that she wants me down/off the computer. I'd say if she's still a pup, hopefully it will get better as she gets used to you. Toto took almost a year to get used to us and he was not a puppy when we got him.
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01-02-2016, 07:35 AM | #12 | |
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Am encouraged by others who say their puppy was sacred of getting picked up also, but outgrew it, I sue hope Lacy does.
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01-04-2016, 08:10 AM | #13 |
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| Omg, a Miracle has happened!!! lol Yesterday for the very first time, Lacy allowed me to pick her up when I was sitting at my chair at the computer. Several times!!! And this morning for the very first time, she did not back away to the far side of the crate when I went to pick her up when I got out of bed. HALLELUJAH!!! I am SOOOOOOO happy!!!!!!!!! She is finally trusting me. This is a huge step forward. This morning, as soon as she finished eating a few mouthfuls of breakfast, she came over to me and whined. I reached down to pick her up and she let me. OMG. Took her for a walk throughout the house yesterday on her leash and she did just amazing. Today will be our first walk outside. On Wednesday, is goes to her first obedience class. Let the training begin! Am doing the Happy Dance!!!
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01-04-2016, 10:19 AM | #14 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: U.K.
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| Fantastic, so pleased for you. Dolly will let me pick her up (when she wants to be picked up) and even helps by lifting up a back leg and hopping up! So sweet and so funny. |
01-04-2016, 10:45 AM | #15 |
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| Lacy is devilish and angelic all at the same time! I'll bet the more you're able to get out with her, the more trusting she'll become. Baby steps, baby steps and all of sudden leaps and bounds (being picked up) with that little love of yours! You two little gals make a great team! |
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