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10-21-2014, 11:53 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Maryland
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| Is my yorkie being aggressive or playing? Please Help! Hello to all! I need some answers and quick! I don't want bad behavior to go on if indeed it is bad behavior! I have a 6 year old male neutered yorkie (who was never socialized due to living so far away from anybody or anything) and I adopted an 11 week old female silky terrier! She is such a doll! I have had her for exactly a month now. At first he didn't want anything to do with her. Now every once in awhile he will roll on the floor and let her jump all over him but growls kinda while she is doing it. They will play tug of war sometimes. But now he is posturing over her and pushing her down with his neck. He bites at her sometimes when she is being a little too much in his face but he has never really bit her. She will chase him and he will bark and growl but then he will chase her everywhere and bark and growl excessively when she goes under the recliner chair. But she comes right out like it doesn't bother her at all and goes over to him and bites at him and runs so he chases her! She runs fanatically through the house with him on her heels! She does submit to him sometimes. I know him pushing her down with his neck is him showing her who is boss. We are in the process of getting back our alpha role ourselves due to bad training on our part. He is fully obedience trained but still sometimes just doesn't seem to listen! Is he being mean or is he playing? His tail wags sometimes but I heard that just because their tail wags doesn't mean they are happy! It does wag rather stiffly sometimes. Anybody else with this problem? Will they ever really get along happily or are they doing okay? Please help me to help my babies! |
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10-21-2014, 12:06 PM | #2 | |
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I'm not an expert, but sounds like playing to me. When I brought my second pup into the house they would "fight" like crazy. They still play fight, but not nearly as much. Lexi is a growler when they play. When it gets loud I will correct her because honestly it gets annoying. My other pup is a barker when playing. I also correct that when it gets annoying. It seems to be worse when one is chasing the other. I was worried in the beginning because sometimes it looked like Lexi was attacking the new pup, but the new pup always wanted to play so I knew he was okay. Things settled down after about a month. | |
10-21-2014, 03:40 PM | #3 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Maryland
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| Thank you so much for that! That makes me feel so much better! It does get very annoying when he barks at her and I tell him to shhh be quiet and he will play a little calmer for awhile....she is a barker too! Is it bad to tell them to quit barking or to quit growling? I read it a lot that you are not supposed to tell them to quit growling because that is their warning sign for when they are about to attack?! Another thing is that sometimes when she gets close to him and he is not in the mood he will snarl and pull back his lips to show his teeth and he will flick his tongue in and out! I heard that this is aggression but I usually just pick her up and move her. But should I yell at him for showing this type of aggression? He does have rawhide chew toy aggression but I am working on that with him. He does drop his rawhide now into my hands but it takes him a couple of minutes. Any suggestions on the above reactions that he has to her? |
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