Hitting the dog even once is NOT acceptable.
I was feeling bad about being too hard on you but not now. You have serious issues here. Yorkies and other small breeds are so different in so many ways that even if you are an expert at big dogs, you have a lot to learn. Trust me, I have learned this myself. I read hundreds of posts about Yorkie training here and kept thinking to myself that the info didn't apply to me because I have raised so many well mannered dogs. I was wrong, and you need to admit to yourself that you are wrong too.
Do you think piles of toys prove that a dog is loved? HE&& NO! What proves that a dog is loved is the dog itself - a well mannered and affectionate dog. A dog that age that can't behave has not been given the right kind of attention.
You both need to go to someone who knows how to train small dogs. bOTH of you - not just your nameless fiancée. Let me ask you this... If you have an engineering problem that doesn't work out, do you assume you're right and beat it into submission? Or do you think you may have made a miscalculation or need to try a different approach? Same thing applies to living things... If what you're doing is not working, you need to rethink what you're doing - not blame the other being.
You might also get more cooperation from your fiancée if you offered to help by both of you going to a class instead of telling her what you're going to make her do. |