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sportschick · 01-04-2014, 05:39 PM

First off, I can't believe that she is going to b 3 years old!

Second, I don't blame her for being bored and acting like an a-hole. We have almost 2 feet of snow here, I smacked my toe AGAIN (at least I didn't break it this time) and neither one of us can get out.

That being said, I am playing with her as much as I can. Today, she threw and epic fit because I was TRYING to read my e-mails and, God forbid, I didn't throw her many balls around. She did her usual verbal histonics which lead to head butting me. But she then escalated it to slapping me in the face (I was sitting on the couch while all this was going on) with her paw and scatching me and THEN, barking at me and snapping.

I will NOT accept that behavior no matter how bored she is, so I blocked her off in the kitchen and ignored her for an hour while she sat at the gate and mewed. I can't explain the noise she makes. It sounds like a bird or a cat.

Anyway, she KNEW she did a bad thing because when I let her back into the living room, she was a model dog.

My question is, how do you guys deal with that kind of behavior and did I do the punishment the right way?

01-04-2014, 05:39 PM	#1
sportschick Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Reading, MA Posts: 261	How to handle a very misbehaving almost 3 year old yorkie First off, I can't believe that she is going to b 3 years old! Second, I don't blame her for being bored and acting like an a-hole. We have almost 2 feet of snow here, I smacked my toe AGAIN (at least I didn't break it this time) and neither one of us can get out. That being said, I am playing with her as much as I can. Today, she threw and epic fit because I was TRYING to read my e-mails and, God forbid, I didn't throw her many balls around. She did her usual verbal histonics which lead to head butting me. But she then escalated it to slapping me in the face (I was sitting on the couch while all this was going on) with her paw and scatching me and THEN, barking at me and snapping. I will NOT accept that behavior no matter how bored she is, so I blocked her off in the kitchen and ignored her for an hour while she sat at the gate and mewed. I can't explain the noise she makes. It sounds like a bird or a cat. Anyway, she KNEW she did a bad thing because when I let her back into the living room, she was a model dog. My question is, how do you guys deal with that kind of behavior and did I do the punishment the right way?