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Originally Posted by Faboosh  Congrats on your little one!! I can relate to the biting thing & rest assured that Mia will be find with kids and her biting will stop. Billi is about 19 weeks now- she was the same age as Mia when we got her & OMG her biting was out of control at first! Those teeth are like little razor blades!  What we did was make a high pitched "squeak", like "OUCH!" & then pull our hand away & quit playing for a few seconds. Then we'd put our hand back and if she bit again we'd pull away again. It didn't take more than a day or so for her to get the message and she's much, MUCH better now. And I'd fully trust her with kids now (though I don't trust kids with her, not unsupervised anyway). Try doing that with Mia and I'll bet she gets the message too! Good luck! |
This is what I have done with Huey both as a pup and even now when he (rarely) gets a little anxious for his treat and tries to take my fingers with it!
I would be very careful with people-food as yorkies are quite prone to digestive issues and pancreatitis. I have a treat-motivated monster, too, and he is a cheeseaholic. I have resorted to frozen green beens and I also get baby carrots, but slice them lengthwise into at least fourths, if not smaller, since he doesn't seem to care about the size, just the treat itself. I also use Blue Buffalo treats but also cut them into tiny pieces.
Yorkies are crafty-smart and your new furbaby will have you trained inno time!
Mine will bring me a toy to throw, but won't actually let me have it unless I have treats available to give to him IF he decides to bring it back.
He also
shows me when he has forbidden objects (shoe, quarter, grocery receipt) so I will "trade" a treat for it...Victoria Stillwell's positive reinforcement training backfired on this one.
Good luch on the training and congrats on the new furbaby!