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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  Hi!
Is he a puppy? Adult dogs generally will correct puppies, so I wouldn't count on them "humoring" him. Can you take him to a small dogs park / doggy daycare / play dates so he can learn better manners with his peers?
It also sounds like he is resource guarding more than anything else. You can google it and see if that sounds applicable. As a start, you can teach him Take It / Drop It / Leave It / Trade. That might help.
Also, I'm not clear, do you have other dogs in your household? |
no he is not a puppy.. he is a little over a year old. Where i live there arent any dog parks so that is disappointing. I have another small yorkie in the house that is around his size, and she is around 5 months older than him. At the moment i am also caring for someone else's small dog that they already know.. so there are 3 of them together.
I did read the definitions more clearly and it seems he is doing the resource guarding and some kinds of dominance aggression more so than fear based aggression which i thought it was originally.. it seems like he is testing the waters right now with trying to see how much power he can gain within the group.
petco has saturday play dates which i am thinking of signing him up for (but you have to pay). I did it with pebbles and though i was unhappy with it in the end, it was
something.. the reason i am hesitant to take him there is because i do not like the "trainer" and she does not go to any lengths to protect the small dogs from the rather unruly bigger dogs. i think i will just try to find the playgroup with the most small dogs
i will work on the leave it take it etc.. pebbles knows those commands.. actually.. pebbles is far more trained than him because i have taken her through all the classes because you have to take them back to back... after she gets her advanced 2 diploma in september im going through the whole thing again with bam bam.. hopefully then he will be more courteous