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Originally Posted by craigernlee My yorkie is right at 4 months old. He is completely out of control! It seems he does not love us, he would much rather be on the floor playing, if you pick him up all he does his lean his head over and stare at the floor. if you put him in your lap all he does is whine to get down. when we put him in the bed he tries over and over to get out.he is completely wild all the time. I cannot teach him to potty in the litter box. he shows no interest in us whatsoever, unless it is to run around and bite us or fetch something. Unfortunately I have our first yorkie to compare him too which we lost. Our first dog was very loyal, affectionate, smart, potty trained, and was completely obsessed with being around us all the time, loved affection and attention, and this was at 3 months old.
wow, what a vent.
anyhow, a friend at my school who breeds yorkies said sometimes they come out unaffectionate, insanely wild, and dumb, bad genes, is this true???
we are almost to the point of getting rid of him but at the same time want it to work out. please let me know what you guys think, i appreciate your time... |
Totally agree with everyone. I have had 4 yorkies, Tiki, Mischa, Shadow, and Raisin whom I just lost in October. Mischa dies a month to the day and hour that Tiki did. I was just broken! The breeder replaced her with a 6 month old that I named Shadow. She followed me everywhere though neither of us bonded. I totally felt as you do. Sometimes I would look at her and say “ How did I end up with you.” She was very cold and did not like to be held, and did not play much. It was sometime later that I realized that we were both depressed. She missed her previous home, and I missed Tiki and Mischa. It was not till a year an a half later that we bonded. I chained her up to the front stoop on a beautiful day in June. I had just moved into a new house and was painting the office. I heard Shadow barking, and I knew it was a frightened bark, so I looked out the window and saw her backing up and charging forward as she let out these screeches. She had discovered 2 lion statues out on the front steps, which she thought were real. I walked out and picked her up and told her “ Now honey, they are not real. You’re so funny!” as I scooped her up laughing, I leaned her toward the statue as I banged on the head of the lion with my other hand and pushed it with my foot. She again let out a terrible screech, at which point I realized that I had exposed her belly to what she thought had the potential to eat her. It was almost at the same moment that she was so horrified at the thought of being eaten, then realized that mom was facilitating, that she in mid screech stopped and understood that the lion was plastic, as I kicked it over.
She fit her name perfectly. She was afraid of her own shadow and would try to intimidate everything she was afraid of, which was everything! This is one of the reasons I like to get them as young as possible because this behavior was in my opinion learned not genetic. Someone of something had hurt her, and she discovered the best way to deal with this was intimidation. However, it was from this day forward that we bonded.
Don’t give up on him and don’t buy into “unaffectionate, insanely wild, and dumb, bad genes”. There are only bad owners! All my little girls in the end, ended up being the same dog. They all had some differences in personality, but they all were so similar I think because of the way I bring them up Just try to be patient with yourself and him, and in time it will all work out. Sometimes it just takes a little longer, for all the reasons previously stated by others.