OH, YOU 2 ARE WONDERFUL!!!
I know and agree with all you say. I must start now. TJ is a 'smarty pants'. He is very, very smart, this I do know. But he is also a little bugger, and then other times the perfect angel! He can be very, very calm, just sitting and waiting and watching. He has an excellent attention span, I am very amazed...BUT then he does go to the extreme opposite end to absolute DEVIL, like when he is obbessed with what Roxy has.
Then I have Roxy, who for the most part has NO interest in anything. She will sleep, she will come to you when you say: 'Come here'. I can place her down and she won't try to run away or I can yell stop and she will drop! When you hold her she is as still as can be, not a peep! BUT she too goes to an EXTREME. She get VERY NERVOUS! She still on occasion with my BF and always will 'new' people will do a submissive pee. When I go downstairs or upstairs and leave them behind, I look at her and say, "I'll be right back" and I am usually just gone for 5 minutes or less, BUT always when I return she has peed (in the litter box) or pooped (if she had to go). It's like she does a nervous pee or poop when she thinks I am leaving. Also, When I am making their food, TJ will just sit calmly, BUT Roxy is doing laps and barking like crazy! I put some change in a coffe can and it only took 2x of shaking it, but now Roxy NEVER barks while I am making theor food. Actually, they both were so terrified those 2x that they now wait in the other room until I call them into the kitchen to eat. But, Roxy will still bark like crazy under stress, like when I gate them in their room, she does laps and barks and barks, etc... She turns into a witch when we are going out for walks, I get them all ready and the whole time she is barking and barking and jumping on my legs as we are walking through the house getting ready, then when I am putting on my shoes, she is barking and jumping and now BITING me...And her thing is whenever I go to pick her up, I always repeat "up" a couple of times, but she likes to run away somewhere (to the side of the souch, or in her crate or under the bed) and she immediately drops and rolls on her side. She has been doing thins since day one when I got her (she was 6 months old then). This is very annoying, is this a game she is playing:
Run, Drop and Roll ROXY!!!
So, I think I will start by getting some books and educate myself. I am going away for 2 weeks (next Sat.) and my step father is watching the 2 of them, but when I come back, I will also check into taking them to a class of some sort.
OH, THANKS AGAIN! |