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Originally Posted by CobysMom  Hi Yorkie Family,
About a couple of weeks ago, I purchased a female yorkie as a new buddy for my male yorkie. He was unhappy to say the least. I am now happy to say that he started playing with her and loving on her! My husband and I were happy that they started getting along so well. I got a lot of helpful info from you guys to help him with his jealousy and I am hoping that you guys can help us with our new issues.
Now, my boy yorkie is SUPER over protective of our girl yorkie to the point that he is now biting those that try to come close to her. He has never had a problem with biting people or other dogs but now he does. He tried to bite my husband, my daughter, and one of my customers (he goes to the office with me). After he did it, he came around them with his head down like he was trying to apologize. Now I have to bring his cage and I hate putting him in there because he is used to having freedom. He is typically so well behaved. I know he is only trying to make sure she isn't hurt and I have tried showing him that they aren't going to hurt her.
Next, he loves playing with her and she loves playing with him but now he is trying to hump her. He hasn't been neutered because eventually I would like to breed. I tell him to stop when he starts to do that and he listens but I think when they start playing again it gets him in the mood 
What can I do about both? We have crossed the hump of him being mean now he's a little too friendly to her and not so friendly to everyone else....
Help Please......Thanks |
Honestly, I think this has a lot to do with you having two intact dogs. You have two options, you can either work of seriously training him and making him realize
you are the pack and that your female isn't for him to be sexually interested in or you can neuter him which may easily stop both behavior problems. He is telling everyone that "she is MINE and you cannot touch." Neutering IMO would be your best option since the decrease in testosterone would lessen his aggression towards others and his humping behavior. (Another thing that if you don't quell now may continue in other circumstances for the rest of his life - neuter or not years from now.)
You do really need to stop and work on this
now because the longer you let this go the more ingrained it will be and the harder it will be to stop. You may also need to realize that unless you handle this correctly (and realize that you may need to hire a professional trainer to assist you) it will continue to become more and more of a problem.
Please reconsider his (or both dogs) attendance for you at work, because if he were to bite one of your co-workers that would be a very very serious incident. Not only could it mean a possible and probable lawsuit with you, but it can greatly impact his life depending on where you live (such as him having to be muzzled at all times when out of the house, being put down or undergoing training courses.)
As an aside, I understand your offended with the stance taken on your choice of breeding... but you have to understand this - we like you care
a lotabout our animals and the breed. With the thousands of yorkie's that get put to sleep every year, it is often hard for us to hear of more and more yorkie's that get produced each year and adding to the 5-
7 million dogs that get put to sleep each year (many many of them purebred.) We see the back yard breeders, the puppy millers who post adds all across the web. Even if you browse some of the listings here... its not necessarily unusual to see older puppies hanging around... all because there just aren't enough good homes to go around with the millions of dogs out there. Its hard seeing more and more dogs added to that list who really don't need to be - all when the reasoning is "I want to breed."
You may have all of the best intentions but at the heart of the matter its just more dogs adding to the ever growing number of dogs without homes.