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Originally Posted by Jkpal  Also, Mayzoo, love, love, love your conversation with Ginger. Made me laugh out loud and made me feel a lot better!!! Thank you so very much! |
Glad it helped. She was a real pill to deal with; sometimes very very compliant, other times looked at me like I had three heads and was speaking a brand new language she had never heard, other times just like the conversation above....stubborn. Those are the dogs you never, ever show off to other people their newly learned trick....it will backfire almost every time LOL. I have trained dogs my whole life, but stubborn dogs or dogs not motivated to please fall into a whole new category much more like training a cat.
As far her being from a breeder, have you checked out the thread on helping them heal from that experience:
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...nt-advice.html
Sounds a lot like she still has some healing and trust issues that need to be resolved before most of her training can begin. I would stick strictly to what training you MUST do, such as house training/pee pad training, stay out of trash etc.. until she has healed and trusts you more. For now, I would limit training to the bare minimum revolving around her health/safety and your sanity. Otherwise, you are just frustrating yourself and both setting her up to fail and instilling in her mind she can walk off and hide when ask her to do something.
Instead, lots of gentle lap petting sessions, and feeding her treats or kibble by hand if you can. Making your time together relaxing, and fun will go a long towards her relaxing and learning to trust you more and be afraid of you less.