Originally Posted by matese  In my adult life I have had 8 female dogs, poodles, mini schnauzers then my heart was captured with yorkies. All these pups I raised from 8 week old babies, I trained them my way, socialized them. Now my yorkie girls were tom boys, always zooming around, flying from sofas to club chairs, wrestling and tumbling, not one ever got hurt.
Now I have a rescue boy who is just perfect, exceptionally smart, very food motivated so he learns new commands very quickly. After years of having dogs I am now faced with having to keep a 9 year old calm, this is all new to me and have tried many things to keep him calm and not jumping. I even stopped filling the bird feeders to keep the squirrels away so they don't get him nuts.
I keep him confined to the room I'm in where there is nothing he can jump on. I do keep the harness on him as soon as we are up for the day and leash him when I sit for breaks to keep him from jumping up and down on the sofa or love seat, this I started to do over this past weekend as it was the only way to keep him from jumping. The fact that he hates the harness on him, well, it's just, is what it is, it stays on until bedtime.
I take it off in the kitchen, I have linoleum floors, that's when the zooming starts, he's so happy to have that harness off, zooming and sliding across the floor. When I can snag him he gets carried to the bed, he doesn't jump off during the night so that's a good thing because my bed is high. Then the day starts. Vet follow up is this Friday evening, vet will check his back, if he needs another back realignment she will do it.
I tell you, not being able to speak directly with my vet is so stressful, I pray the meds are working and his back is ok so I don't have to go back. The way vet visits are now is very frustrating when having to write questions and have a tech relay the answers. |