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04-03-2006, 12:26 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location:
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| PLEASE HELP! ? About Agressiveness I have a few questions about our Yorkie, Fiona. I hope y'all can bear with me, I'm better at reading posts than writing them, lol! Fiona is a year and two mos. old. We have been to obedience classes but she didn't exactly graduate. Even with working with her everyday. She seemed to enjoy them and did fine with walking by you and the "heeling", but as soon as you want her to sit or lay down, she would get this really stubborn look on her face and refuse to do it. She's also very rough when she plays. We had some neighbors who had 3 dogs who Fiona liked to play with, but they moved so she hasn't really had any "friends" to play with. I've noticed when when she would play with their pomeranian, if he had a handkerchief around his neck she would go for that and drag him around, or she would go for his neck or ears. Now a different set of neighbors have a pomeranian, about the size of Fiona. The other day we were outside, and I went in to put the kids down for a nap so I put her on her chain, and when I came out, their dog had gotten out and was by Fiona and they were playing but very rough, Fiona kept going for her neck. I took the dog away from her and brought her back to her home, but goodness! Why is she so aggressive? Yesterday when I brought her out to potty, they were in the front yard. both were on retractable leashes and Fiona about ripped my arm out of socket trying to run to the other dog...a couple of times. How do I help her to learn I am the boss, not her? She's getting hornory (sp?) and I don't know why? Also, I want to be able to take her out to play w/ other dogs and their owners not taking their dogs away b/c she is a bully! Please help! Signing her up for another obedience class isn't an option in the near future as we are moving and my dh will be going off to a school for 4-5 mos. I love Fiona to death, and she can be so sweet, but she needs to know who's boss! |
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04-03-2006, 12:34 PM | #2 |
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| Oh, sorry for your trouble! http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33508 Here's a current thread all about aggression! There is some excellent information to be found there. Good luck with Fiona, and I just love her name!!
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04-03-2006, 11:39 PM | #3 |
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| Mandimarie - it's hard to tell exactly what is going on without seeing it. It's normal for dogs to play aggressively. Growling and nipping are quite normal. Going for the neck, too, is normal. Does Fiona draw blood when she is playing with other dogs? Are the other dogs yelping and whining? If not, I'm betting that this is just play for them. If she really is being a "bully", perhaps she needs to learn some manners from a *slightly* larger dog. Be careful, though, you don't want her to get hurt.
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04-04-2006, 05:14 AM | #4 |
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| No she doesn't draw blood. They do make a yelp every once in a while. We live on an army base and we have a small back yard then two loooong rows of housing with their backyards facing each other. Our row is at the bottom facing the "alley" I guess you could say. Everyone it seems has 2 (sometimes 3) big dogs in their backyard. All in fences though or chained up. (Makes for really loud barking when they all start, ugh) When Fiona was a little younger, sometimes she would get out the door and away from us and run to the back and run down the middle of all the dogs and rile them all up. She would have the whole neighborhood barking lol and we couldn't get her back until she was "done". The ones on leads, she would go just until they couldn't reach her. You should have seen me big and pregnant with a toddler in tow, trying to chase her down, yikes! Luckily she has gotten out of that so much and she listens a little better outside. But all that rambling, (sry) maybe she thinks she's "hot stuff" b/c she would run around riling them all up? So she hasn't had any dealings w/ lg dogs, b/c they were all in fences and she could just run off. Maybe I can borrow one of the neighbors dogs w/ both of us supervising. |
04-04-2006, 09:42 AM | #5 |
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| Just be careful and don't go too much bigger!
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04-04-2006, 09:54 AM | #6 |
Luvs Lulu Donating Member | Aggressiveness Sounds to me like she is just playing. I think if she were really being mean and aggressive she would be trying to draw blood and bear her teeth. She probably learned to play that hard and rough playing with the other three dogs as there were three of them and one of her. Just watch her and see how she progresses. Lex plays the same way with my cat April and she plays just as hard in return. When she finds him getting too rough (they don't call them terriers for nothing) she will bite him a bit harder...enough to elicite a yelp from him and he will ease up. Good luck. Just watch her. Does she show any aggression towards your kids or yourself?
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