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Help my dog is afraid of children I have teapot Yorkie & something traumatic happened to her when she was little & it involved children. She is a rescue so maybe something happened before then too. She will start barking at kids & the smaller the worst she gets. The other day she almost seemed like she lunged at a little baby. Not only is it embarrassing but I don't want anyone to get hurt & I don't want my yorkie to be upset & nervous. Other than that she is very good. I need help immediately to know what to do. Please help!!!! Heather & Daisy (my furbaby.) also I have other yorkies & they don't have this problem all |
Wish I could help, but Kiko doesn't like children. She is similar to your pup in that the smaller they are, the worse she is. Infants really scare her. She freaks out and barks. She hasn't growled or snapped yet. Kiko hasn't ever had a bad experience with kids. My youngest was 12 when we got Kiko, and we failed to socialize her with small children. Good luck to you. I will be watching this post for advice too. |
I have heard that if you slowly intergrate the children with happy things some will eventually come around. That means having an older child maybe give the dog some yummy treats while not trying to touch or grab at the pup. over and over...boiled chicken works great. You can give little shreads over and over so its not too much food. have the child put it a few feet away and not move then a little closer but do it over a period of time not all in a day.. |
I will try that but we just moved to a new area so we don't know anyone! I don't even know how to go about finding a child to help us with this. Maybe I. Could take her to a dog park with the chicken & if the children come up explain the situation and ask them to do that. I was hoping there was some secret correction but nothing is ever that easy. Thank you. I hope this works. She is very food motivated. |
I agree about making positive experiences with children in small steps as described above with the boiled chicken. Since you don't know any children near you, to get this done, my suggestion (might be a little out there but) is to consider taskrabbit.com If your city is covered by task rabbit, you can place a task and put a price (say $3 for 3 visits) and write a task title description saying something along the lines of: "Introduce child to my Yorkie." I'd imagine many people would love to be introduced to your adorable furbaby! Task Rabbit bidders are background checked and payment goes through the website. You can choose a public location to meet for safety precautions. -Please note that I am not sponsored by or related to the website in any way and I am not endorsing them. Just making you aware of this possibly viable option. :) People there are employed in a contractor basis and there is a point system and rating system so you see the history of the person. You can also make your task one where people bid their own price so you can choose your helper from their profile description or personal narrative submitted with bid. HTH |
Unless you can desensitize her using some actual children, I would just rein her in when she's around kiddos. My Jilly was totally scared of kids so she would try to protect herself by showing the best defense was a good offense and turning her tiny head to one side, glaring out of the corners of her walled little eyes, she would growl, show teeth and put up the biggest screeching noise, telling them in so many words "I'm just little and terrified and don't you kids come over here and hurt me! Don't you dare - oh please". The antics and noise and sudden movements and unrestrained activity of kids really scare many little dogs a lot of the time and only having a few kids in and having them feed some treats to the dog, jump around some as she's safe nearby getting fed more treats, will start to help but honestly, I'd just keep her away from them, in your lap and restrained when they are around w/o the ability to train, desensitize her to them. |
wish you were closer to Chesapeake. I have four that would be happy to help! |
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