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09-26-2012, 02:54 PM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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| My yorkie and the new BF. So those of you who know me, know that these past two months have been a HUGE change for Harley and I (moving, law school, break-up), also on a side note, I miss you all, but I've been so darn busy that every free moment goes to actually walking Harley, I've had no time to come on here. Well he's been super through most the changes, but I'm looking for advice about a totally new situation for me. Since arriving at school I've connected with this guy I met at one of the info sessions back in March. Well we hit it off, and are now dating. He's totally a dog person which I'm thankful for and he loves Harley, Harley thankfully loves him too. He even has yet to complain about Harley sleeping with us, if he crashes at my place, or the fact that if we're cuddling on my couch a little fuzz-ball wiggles his way between us. Here's the issue. Harley has been getting more and more needy, and well two nights ago the new bf crashed at my place and Harley wouldn't let either of us sleep. Mr. Center-of-attention kept pawing at blankets, licking us, jumping on us, and when he did fall asleep I got up to go to the bathroom and he wouldn't let me back in the bed. I don't want to kick the him out of the room, but neither of us got sleep and we had an early day of classes the next day. I've been trying to walk Harley more than usual and give him as much play and attention as possible. So for those who let their babies sleep with them, and have introduced a new guy into the mix... any advice? I don't wanna drive this guy away by testing his patience too fast, lol. I feel bad crating Harley, but I'm starting to think if he deprives me or us of sleep I may have to. Thoughts???
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09-27-2012, 04:41 AM | #2 |
YT Addict Join Date: May 2012 Location: Douglasville, GA USA
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| Can you afford doggie day care at a place that has great supervision and separates the smaller dogs? It might wear him out so that he's too tired to fuss.
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09-27-2012, 05:11 AM | #3 | |
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There are a bunch of other students who keep telling me they wanna come play with my dog, I may ask them if they seriously would like to walk him, and offer them a little cash or to cook them a meal for it or something. Also last night he jumped up on the bed and peed! I lost it! I had just done all of the bed linens that morning, so I ended up spending $15 dollars on laundry yesterday and had to stay up another 2 hours. I put him in his xpen for the night. I figured it was safer for him than for me to be mad at him. I feel better this morning, and I've banned him from the bedroom temporarily. I'm thinking I may actually need to start confining him more, he's been unreliable with the potty training since we moved, and I can't have him marking the bed it's been ages since he's done that. I thought we were making progress with fixing that, cause last week I caught him peeing on the tray and gave him a ton of treats, but this week he's just failing on all aspects of the training thing. I know I survived undergrad being this busy, so there is a way to balance this, but he's stressing me out. I think this weekend I may go to my storage locker and pull out all the agility equipment and do some serious 2-3 hours of work with him just to get that bond back. That is assuming I'm not too far behind on readings. *sigh* sorry for the rant. Today will be a better day.
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09-27-2012, 05:44 AM | #4 |
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| One thing you might try is limiting his access to the bed in other ways. Keep the bedroom door closed when you arent in it, and make him "ask" to get up on the bed or be invited up before he gets up there. When he does something inappropriate, take him off the bed, and dont allow him up again until he stops trying to get up and engages in something else.
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09-27-2012, 09:29 AM | #5 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | I think you should crate him at night. You simply have too much on the go to put up with no sleep at night due to his behaviour. On another note, you are welcome to join Ilona and I at Maria's place this Saturday. Maria has a large property where Harley can run around, bring your agility equipment we will have an adhoc training day. We usually do a BBQ, not to worry about bring anything for that, your contribution can be the agility equipment As you know Ilona is a great trainer, and there will be lots of small dogs, but also the BRT's will be there but crated while we have the small pups out. The area is Jane and Hwy 9. Near to Newmarket. It is supposed to be a fine day Sat. We are thinking about 2pm or so. I;ll pm you my numbers again.
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09-28-2012, 03:37 AM | #6 |
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| So I've xpened him the last two nights, and the sleep has been wonderful I think I'm going to keep it up just for the next little while until I can get him a little more settled.
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