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04-08-2014, 08:56 AM | #1 |
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| bo$$ needs help with biting, barking and potty training So my little man finally made it to be 8 weeks!! I was trick by a breeder and bought a 6 week old parti yorkie who I would have took back if the drive wasn't hrs long! He's Sweet And The Most Adorable Little guy! But he pees on the wee wee pads but keeps pooping under the bed, and if he knows I'm leaving he will look at me and pee right on the floor. Also he's teething so his teeth are sooo sharp he bite my finger broke the skin jumps up and tries to bite my face. And he throws bark fits barks on the top of his vocals until he makes his self fall asleep I need help asap |
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04-08-2014, 09:27 AM | #2 |
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| You've just got an infant dog who's brain is in its early stages of growth, is too young to retain much and is still behaving fairly spastically, as infants do. Your little dog should probably still be with his mother if she's still alive, being carefully nurtured and taught in his birth home as his brain imprinting takes place and she learns about fear and bodily sensations, when biting is too hard and how to be and behave like a dog. Dogs need their mother when they learn about "fear" as a concept when they are 8 - 10 weeks old - otherwise, they can grow up fearful if their owner doesn't know how to help them through this scary time. A very young dog of 8 weeks still needs its mother above all to help it get its best start in life and not to be making huge changes to its life by going to a totally new home and surroundings; and no reputable breeder would sell a puppy that young unless the mother were ill or dead, in my opinion. I wouldn't try to do much with this little doll but keep his body heat regulated, his feeding schedule often enough to avoid low blood sugar/hypoglycemia and keeping his safely confined to a small area that is fully covered with pads. You cannot allow a small puppy to roam the entire room. They will poop under the furniture, it's true, but they will also chew on electric cords and chew on anything and everything they can, including dropped pills or food their tummies cannot handle. They will run out the door and fall down the stairs, etc. Puppies, in order to housebreak them, must be confined, so that they are encouraged by their confinement, not to soil their own crate/pen and will hold themselves until they are let out of confinement to "go potty". If they "go potty" within a couple - five minutes after letting them out, treat and praise them profusely and now water, feed and play with the puppy for a while, then it's cuddle time with you and then back to confinement for a nice nap until it's time to come out and go potty, eat, drink, play and cuddle and nap again. It's a regular schedule you have them on and that schedule teaches them that in a short time it will be time to come out of confinement and potty so they learn to hold it. But if you don't take them out when their body clock is telling them it's time, they will "go" in the confined area! A regular schedule is an absolute necessity so the dog knows when it can expect to be taken out to "go potty". If the dog doesn't "go" when you bring it out of confinement to potty and you have given it 5 - 7 minutes of watching it, return him to confinement for another 15 - 30 minutes, watching him closely while he's in his crate/pen for excitedly sniffing the ground, walking about in fast circles, staring at you and whining or looking at the door of the crate/pen as signs to show you now the need to "go" is there. If you see signs that he needs to "go", take him right out of confinement and put him on his pad and tell him "go potty" and watch him until he does. If he still doesn't "go", return him back to confinement for another 15 - 30 minutes at a time, watching him the entire time for signs he suddenly needs to "go". Eventually, he will go and that's when you treat/praise and begin his out of confinement activities of eating, drinking, playing and cuddling and then back down for a nap. At 8 weeks, your dog is just an infant to be coddled and very little expected of - just like parents of a baby don't expect it to learn to read or walk or use the toilet right away - they know it will take growing and developing before they can achieve much in the way of retaining much until they are about 12 - 14 weeks of age, at which stage they do start to show signs of learning and remembering. When your puppy is a bit older and bites a tad hard, just hold the little muzzle for a bit until he pulls away and he'll learn every time he bites hard, he'll get his muzzle held and will stop himself as soon as he's able to learn and retain that - but don't expect it now. He's just too young to expect anything of really right now. He may learn some things like where his bed, food bowls are but puppies' brains forget easily so don't expect much until they are a bit older. Good luck with your young little man!
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04-08-2014, 09:31 AM | #3 |
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| When does he have barking fits until he falls asleep? Where is he at the time, how long has he been there and what time of day is it?
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04-08-2014, 10:02 AM | #4 |
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| He barks at bed time because he doesn't want to go to sleep, he barks when he knows I'm leaving and I sat there to see how long he will bark he bark for over 30mins I want him not to stress his self out with all the barking |
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04-08-2014, 10:14 AM | #6 | |
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Where is he at bedtime? Canines are pack animals who are used to sleeping touching or within a foot or so of other pack members for safety and warmth and will bark and howl when they are denied sleeping very near or right with their nearest pack member, you. I'd place his crate on a chair right next to my bed where he could feel he was sleeping with me and you can reach out and touch him. I put my Tibbe in a small hardshell airline carrier with a wire door and just put in in the bed with me until he could hold his urine at night. Eventually, once they are old enough, my dogs sleep right in the bed with me because that is what they are most comfortable with - and so am I.
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04-08-2014, 10:16 AM | #7 | |
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04-08-2014, 10:24 AM | #8 | |
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He needs to be on a regular feeding and potty schedule at this young age for many reasons, not the least of which is his blood sugar. Read the internet or YorkieTalk Library for Puppy Care for a schedule for how often to feed and housebreak an 8 week old puppy. He's likely going to soil your bed if you put him right in it at his age and until he's somewhat housebroken so putting his carrier or crate right up next to the bed or putting him in a hardshell airline carrier which can go right on one side of the bed should make him happy at bedtime and he won't feel so abandoned by his human pack as he's likely feeling right now.
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04-08-2014, 11:17 AM | #9 | |
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Good luck with your Boss. Is it Boss? Is that his name? B - o - s - s? But spelled with dollar signs? Cute. He sounds like a cutiepie and no doubt you are in for a whale of a fun time once you are past the infancy of his life! But like any baby, it's not all fun right now, is it? lol
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04-08-2014, 02:32 PM | #10 | |
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04-08-2014, 02:44 PM | #11 | |
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Be careful not to frighten him during these next two weeks as his brain is just now going to be learning about what fear is - imprinting they call it - and loud noises and sudden noises can startle and scare him unduly. When that happens, don't grab him up and say "oh, that's okay, poor little baby" or he might think it's okay to be scared, grow accustomed to that reaction and think it's what you want from him, just immediately start playing and distracting him with squeaky toys or pick him up and take him to another room and play happily with him - anything to redirect him attention to something other than the thing that scared him.
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04-08-2014, 03:06 PM | #12 | |
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04-08-2014, 03:19 PM | #13 | |
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But until he's got body control, the very best thing to do is not have him on any pad-free flooring. Confine him to an area of the room that you have COMPLETELY COVERED with newspaper and pads and use large cardboard boxes or pet fencing to keep him from leaving that area when he's out of his crate, so that he can't make a mistake on the floor until he's quite a bit older and showing you he's got some control. But I would not clap or yell at all right now - just say "uh oh", particularly during these next two or three weeks, when his brain is going to be imprinting or learning what fear is.
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