At my wits end!!!!! Help with Dominant Morkie Well, Potty training has been great. Not one accident in awhile! Yeah Last night was our first night of formal obedience training. I have already taught her sit, down, stay and stand. She is very smart. All during class she screamed and screeched to try to get at the other dogs. The trainer had us do a couple of meets to check her out. She meet a morkie just a little smaller than her (shes around 8-10lbs). She was very dominant and he submitted to her. A larger dog she meet didn't go as well. She puffed up and tried to dominate it, well it didn't submit. It didn't become aggressive either she did. She tried to attack it. Class was hard because she wanted to attack every dog in there and even growled at to children who came near her. Even the trainer said she would have to contact other trainers for advice as they have not come up against a small dog as aggressive as she is at only 9 months old. She even nipped at me having to restrain her at one point. :eek: Does anyone have any advice? She is spayed. I have only had her about 6 weeks, and the people said she was terrorizing their 9 year old dog. We have tried shaking cans with penny's , and the squirt bottle. Nothing helps with her behavior. Even a bark off electronic thing doesn't stop her excessive barking. At first we thought it may be fear based, but watching her we are not so sure. Her ears were pricked forward, tail (what there is lol) was up, chest out. She would also try to stand over them even the large dog. PLEASE HELP. She's still young and this will only get worse through adolescence and adult hood!. Also she is not allowed on our furniture, she is crated, she has to sit and wait before eating. She does not growl about toys or food. She has growled a few times at my kids trying to love her. Thanks |
first of all how old is she? It just might be that the class with all those dogs and children and people is just to overwhelming. You can socialize her other ways than a class.... I did not go to obediance classes with Pixie bc they wanted to have big and small dogs together and free play and I felt that Pixie was too small to be in that kind of situation. I socialized Pixie by taking her to the park and letting children come and pet her and walking her around dogs and other people. Pixie is very well adjusted she loves children and people and other dogs. Your dog just might feel overwhelmed and I would not keep her in that enviornment bc it will encourage the bad behavior. This is just my opinion. I hope I helped. |
How old was she when she was spayed? You may want to ask your vet about hormone testing and therapy if she was spayed early. Many Yorkies require a firm, strong leader. If they think you are not their leader, they will take on the roll themselves and dominant the household. It will take some work to retrain her and change her way of thinking. |
She is only 9 months old. I take her to the local parks and our pet specialty store and she is bad in all of those places. She snapped at a nice dog at the store the other day. I don't want to muzzle her but I may have to. She has never meet a dog she liked,so to speak. She is touch and go with other people also. I have them treat her so she can learn to trust strangers. This goes well most of the time but I need something to snap her out this aggressive behavior. |
I think she was around 4 months or so when they had her spayed. I just bought some material about dominant dogs and how to retrain. Hopefully it will help. I have been a strong leader, but maybe all of her prior months with her first owner is going to make this a little more tuff. lol |
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