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Originally Posted by ARCHIE  Honey, first of all, what you have is an unsocialized puppy. That's all!
I will admit Buddy seemed pretty much the same way at that age. I thought
he had a screw loose, really but with reading and common sence we got
threw this period. Puppepetite is, as you know now not the place to purchase
a healthy puppy. Buddy was from a place similar to that and I can relate
to you. What I did was crate him during the day when I was not home,
walked him immediately when I got home. He was pretty aggressive outdoors as well, picking up cigarettes, pine cones etc while walking. Trying to get
these things out of his mouth was awful. He bit me everytime and such
an aggressive growl it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
I thought perhaps something was wrong with his brain. LOL
During my home hours I put a gate up across the room I was in and let
him hang out with me. I kept treats next to me and talked to him all the
while I was watching tv. He was not huggable then either. Every so often
I would call his name and lean over and treat him and say good boy.
After a couple of nights he started coming to me, then up on the chair with me, of course looking for treats but we were making progress. Your baby
has to trust you is all. His surroundings are all new to him and he probably
was never hugged or kissed by a human. Build trust the rest will come
gradually. Puppies are little terriers anyhow but to add one that has
not been socialized only makes it's worse. With lot's of training, love
and patience Buddy is a wonderful pet today. We went threw many
difficult times, food guarding, toy guarding, pet guarding etc. We got
threw it and the only thing we are still working on is aggression with
bigger dogs. He's come a long way and it was all worth it. I can't imagine
life without my Bud. Yorkies that don't get that in-home puppy experience
which only dedicated breeder's can give,
can come to you like this but you can and will make him the Yorkie
he was ment to be. He only got a bad start, that was no fault of his.
All the things you mentioned can be corrected. Believe me. Buddy
is 5 now and when I look back I laugh at this little dog and what he
put me threw. For dog's that are from puppymills, byb and pet stores
this is what can happen and more often than not it does.
Be patient and loving and you won't be sorry.
Good luck,
I am so sorry your sick as well. I hope things work out for
you regarding your puppy and health.
If you can't handle him please look to a rescue not a
pound because anyone who get's him will only return him
and heaven forbid he bites someone being unsocialized he
will be put down. |
God Bless - all 4 of my grandparents plus the 1 great grandparent I knew had Cancer - and Cancer weakened them all to death but 1 of of 5. My maternal grandmother fought from the age of apx 50 until it took her after her third relape at 64 - that was my whole life. She died 3 weeks after I turned fifteen.
I've also traind "the untrainable" - from ferile cats to a beaten pitt mix and my last dog, a rottweiler from the pound who we domesticated and she died just last year as a sweet thing (cancer - 3 dogs of mine have died from cancer - it stalks me, I swear lol...not really lol - but you get me) - but something is wrong with this yorkie. Now - since this week - he has begun attacking for NO REASON. At first he began to attack only if you touched his bully bone - which is reasonable for a dog - he thinks you're going to take his "prey". We got a trainer - and my husband, for the record, has had more days with Rock than I have in these past 2 months, as well as my brother who helps out (he's 20). Then the dog began attacking when anyone went near him when eating - again reasonable for a dog. Then all of a sudden, for no reason at all, he'd be laying in the living room (this began this week), and if you walked into the room he'd start the attacj bark - the "rrrorororororoooooaaaarrrrrrrrrr" bark - teeth bear and if you don't move from that room within a minute or so he LUNGE ATTACKS and will BITE whatever is nearest - hand or foot - and NOT LET GO without being PRYED off. That was scary. Then he did it again - so I tried, for the first time ever, rolling up a magazine to use as a guard while trying to move him and (yes, I'll say it) threaten him with because an 8 pound yorkie is not taking me down of all friggin things man - and he CATCHES the paper/magazine MID-AIR and begins to CHEW UP IT until he can reach your HAND! He has BALLS! It's seriously scary!!! He attacked my brothers girlfriend last night - ripped her shoe from her food (an UGG) and then began to do the crazy rabies-kujo bark he does (I swear it is so deep and loud if I can record it NO ONE will believe me this is a yorkie - it sounds deeper than my rotties' did!!) - it was about 2am and I woke up out of my sleep to see what was happening - my brother and his girlfriend were trying to get her SHOE BACK and the dog was going CRAZY - he bit my brothers hand - and you know how with a real terrier they'll grab a bone and no matter how high in the air you pull it, the terrier will go up even say 4 feet high - hanging by the jaw - with it? Well he did that to my brothers' HAND.
He may have to go. I woke up my husband (who could sleep through a damn tornado I swear) and he began crying in his sleep when I said "Rocky may have to go Babe" - he said in tears "noo noooo - not my puppy...not my puppy" - we're only 24 ourselves... we've been through so much - this is just the icing... if there;s a God, he's got a lot of explaining to do... ;(