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Same thing here! Funny but we have the same problem with my 5 month old yorkie. Percy gets daily walks, we play with him, got lots of toys and just today he doesn't like his bullysticks anymore. He's been chewing the leg of our dining table and chews his pad. Ugh! The word no is already a played out word for him.. I've read somewhere that you can make strange noises to distract them. So what i do is whenever he begins chewing his pad, i shake a can full of coins, other times i slap the wall with a hard paper like catalogs and stuff. i know its silly but it seems to be working. Sometimes i slap his pad to let him know that i don't like what he's doing. At first he barks at me, like a child talking back to me, it makes me crack up but i have to be firm so i don't back away from him. As soon as he realizes that im serious then that's the time he stops and goes away. Im a stay at home housewife so we spend the whole day together. I love him so much that i want him to grow up well disciplined. I think he has so much energy to unleash that's why they do all sorts of things. I think we just need to be more patient with them |
I am looking into another puppy and hoping that will solve my issues but I keep getting mixed answers.... if you are not giving him attention he "talks" and paws at your feet or if you are in bed you get slapped in the face with a toy. He has ate the edges of my coffee table, ate a hole in my wall, ate the moldings, helped remove the carpet from my bedroom in which the vet told me was anxiety and he needed puppy prozac. He even licked the paint off my walls... yet to figure out how you master that one but he did. We walk, we play tag outside, fetch in the house you name it we do it to try and wear him down!! The ONLY thing that works is pointing your finger at him and saying in a calm yet sturm voice 'you are a BAD BAD BAD yorkie" and he will got whine in the corner till you tell him to come and tell you he is sorry so he then gives you puppy kisses. Quote:
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Puppies have crazy amounts of energy. The first year can be really challenging. I highly recommend daily walks and multiple brief training and play sessions throughout the day/evening. Having a schedule, a routine, has a calming effect. Try to do everything at the same time each day so that your puppy knows when to expect things and when not to. Every dog is different, but for Max, getting angry at him hyped him up. It was much better to ignore him...or if he was doing something that needed to be stopped, we put him in the xpen. For instance, barking inappropriately -- we corrected him in an even voice and if he continued, we left the room. He quickly learned not to make us leave the room. Lots of good advice in this thread. I hope you find what works for you and your pup. |
Pet stay off sprays work wonders saving wood. I personally use white vinegar and supervision with dogs under a year its all about repetition of acceptable behavior, unleaa you're dealing with an.older untrained dog. I walked my dog under a year 2-3 times per day. |
The only thing that saved me with Remy is Bailey. He is my 26 lb shih tuz and he would play with Remy for hours on end. He is such a sweet loving big boy and he was so gentle. They love each other and I would never separate them |
Khaleesi has taken an interest in the little cat toy stick with a toy on the end of a string (called DaBird). We aren't using the one with feathers, but there is an attachment with mylar streamers and she LOVES chasing it around. Sometimes I keep it high so she'll jump for it; sometimes low so she can stalk it; sometimes in circles or sudden direction changes to sharpen her agility. Fortunately, it wears her out before me! She doesn't play long by herself and she won't get her last set of puppy shots till next week, so going for walks has not been an option. This has helped tremendously in burning her puppy energy. Cat toy or not, until she starts "meowing", I'm using it! In fact, I'm looking for some other toys to dangle from the end of it now. :D |
For the chewing . You can put peanut butter or plain yogurt and plain canned pumpkin 1:1 ratio in the kong and freeze it.They last a lot longer and the cold helps their teething. Also kong has hong shaped ice cube tray. Then stuff the kong with it. You can fill a bag with them and store in the freezer so you don't have to wait for the kong to freeze. |
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Blazer, my 5 month old, was always nipping at my children when they would get up in the morning, or home from school, or whatever and they would tell him no but then run away or laugh so he kept up with it, thinking that they were playing. I had to get my girls to be firm with Blazer. Tell him "No bite!" and stand still just looking at him. It took a few tries but now they ALL know that it isn't play time nor acceptable to nip. |
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What I'm finding (and I suspect is true for most of our intelligent babies) is that they get need constant mental stimulation as well as physical and that requires a great deal of variety. They certainly challenge our creativity, which really isn't bad for our mental well being, either! |
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