my yorkie and my shadow :)

[MyDuke]

Originally Posted by celstu1

HAHAHA your vet might be wrong on that one! Mine are over 3 years old and still follow my every step. I cannot shut doors between them and I, I might lose the door to them trying to get through it or under it! They get up and follow me even if I take 2 steps away. Often my bf will get me some water or something because they are both curled up asleep on me and I'll feel soo bad moving them to get my own water. I think only twice my Fletcher was sooo overtired that he went to my bed by himself and slept while I was downstairs. Other than that, they are always always always at my feet or on my lap. I do not let them up when I eat though, I have taught them to wait for me in the kitchen in their bed where they can see me but I won't tolerate the begging at the table, its where I draw the line! lol

How did you teach him to wait? I tried with Duke so many times and it's so difficult. I would give him his canned food (i leave the dry food out during the day and feed him canned food for dinner) before we eat, once he ate, he would just want to be near me and wouldn't go play by himself.

[Lynn WDW]

Baxter will be 1 next week. We got him in Feb. He will fight to get to me if I am in the room and someone else is trying to hold him. He follows every step I take. He will leave me in the room and go in to another rooom to see what my husband is doing but I can absolutely not leave him without him following. Drives my husband nuts! He's just jealous.

[Britster]

my little Jackson who I've only had for 4 days is acting the same way. the minute i leave the room, he barks/whines nonstop. i'm trying to crate train him though so i want him to get used to being in the crate... he's only fine in the crate if i'm sitting right next to him. i don't want him to get used to that though! he gets plenty of playtime as well, i've blocked off a little area in our house for him and i've constantly been with him and taking him outside (thankfully, im on my break from college until jan 23rd, so i have a lot of time to work with him) any ideas on how to get him to stop the whining?

[llord0341]

koool

[Miss Magoo]

Bella is my shadow. She waits at the gate when I am gone, to the point she gathers a few toys and stays in the vicinity of the gate so she can see me when I come in the door. From that point on, she follows me around.


The exception to this is when my sister is around. Then, I'm chopped liver. This officially started first part of July, shortly before she found out she was preggers. Bella knew before everyone else. It's so cute.

She's very protective of Matthew (it's going to be a boy).

[celstu1]

Originally Posted by MyDuke

How did you teach him to wait? I tried with Duke so many times and it's so difficult. I would give him his canned food (i leave the dry food out during the day and feed him canned food for dinner) before we eat, once he ate, he would just want to be near me and wouldn't go play by himself.

It took awhile to train them. I realized that the best thing to do is find where they like to be and name it. Like my boys would lay in their bed in the kitchen while I was cooking dinner in the kitchen, when I said the word kitchen they seem to understand that as it being their bed in the kitchen, so I repeated it often. After awhile whenever I said 'Kitchen' they would automatically go to their bed in the kitchen and lay in it. So now when we eat dinner I just say 'kitchen' and they go lay down and wait for us to be done. You can't look at them though, as soon as you do they will come running over! haha I have to say kitchen again! BF thinks its soo funny that I say 1 word and they know it. I say 'bed' they go to my room, I say 'kitchen' they go to their bed in the kitchen.