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jadabug · 08-20-2009, 07:12 AM

Hi everyone
I have a question...does anyone have a problem with their female yorkie carrying small stuffed toys around trying to hide them and getting agitated..I think Jada thinks they are her pups or something. She is 2 yrs old and had one litter of pups. I wonder if I should just hide these small toys from her. I hate for her to get upset. Anyone have any suggestions?:

EverythingMiley · 08-20-2009, 07:35 AM

I would just let her be. She will most likely eventually quit doing this..

megansmomma · 08-20-2009, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by jadabug

Hi everyone
I have a question...does anyone have a problem with their female yorkie carrying small stuffed toys around trying to hide them and getting agitated..I think Jada thinks they are her pups or something. She is 2 yrs old and had one litter of pups. I wonder if I should just hide these small toys from her. I hate for her to get upset. Anyone have any suggestions?:

What do you mean that she gets agitated? Is she growling and trying to attack anyone that comes near her? That would be guarding and is more a behavior issue. I have a guarder and SHE is horrible and will take my possessions and guard them. My Doodlebug will carry around HIS special small toy like it is HIS baby and cry while he tries to hide it from the others. If she is guarding I would not allow her to have whatever it is she is guarding.

jadabug · 08-20-2009, 07:42 AM

she doesn't growl or get aggressive. She just whines and keeps trying to find the perfect hiding place. She will let me take it away from her without a fight. I just hate thinking she is missing her pups or something. I guess i'm just overprotective lol .

lovespandp · 08-20-2009, 08:16 AM

Peanut does that! Only with his bone..he will carry it around and dig in his blankets in his bed's and bury it..Sometimes it will walk around back and forth trying to find the perfect spot!

megansmomma · 08-20-2009, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jadabug

she doesn't growl or get aggressive. She just whines and keeps trying to find the perfect hiding place. She will let me take it away from her without a fight. I just hate thinking she is missing her pups or something. I guess i'm just overprotective lol .

Well since that is what Doodlebug does with his baby toy I don't really think it is harmful. BTW~I have a Bogey too

megansmomma · 08-20-2009, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by lovespandp

Peanut does that! Only with his bone..he will carry it around and dig in his blankets in his bed's and bury it..Sometimes it will walk around back and forth trying to find the perfect spot!

D-bugs likes to jump into the laundry basket and bury him little giraffe.

manina · 08-20-2009, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by jadabug

Hi everyone
I have a question...does anyone have a problem with their female yorkie carrying small stuffed toys around trying to hide them and getting agitated..I think Jada thinks they are her pups or something. She is 2 yrs old and had one litter of pups. I wonder if I should just hide these small toys from her. I hate for her to get upset. Anyone have any suggestions?:

My Miley is 3 yrs and around 4 months ago, she started to act up, she took all her toys and hide them and stay with them all day. I call the vet and she said she was going thu false pregnancy and to leave her alone she will get over it in a week or so , she would also make a funny noise . Miley would let me take the toys out ,but would follow me to see where I would put them and take them back. Now she wouldn't let any one else near them. After a week almost 2 she stop and back to her old self.
bark@ulater!!!
manina,miley

,max

FlDebra · 08-20-2009, 10:21 AM

Is it possible she is having a false pregnancy? I have a dachshund that had a couple of false pregnancies. She would gather several small plush toys and make a nest in my closet. She would not want to leave them for anything and would whine and cry if we took them. We would make her come out to go outside to potty and she could not rush back in fast enough -- just like a momma dog with her puppies. The first time around she actually had milk come in and I took her to the vet. He explained it was not unusual. If she had gotten engorged, he would give her a shot, but she seemed to work through it on her own. After that, she went through the guarding her toys routine but never got milk after the first time. It usually lasted around two weeks and then she would go back to normal.

ARCHIE · 08-20-2009, 10:27 AM

I hate to throw a monkey wrench into this baby thing here but Buddy
is a male and he does the samething. His baby, the rubber clown, get's
carried around all the time, at times with him whinning looking where he
want's to put it. Please don't tell me he thinks he's female! LOL

Zanders' mom · 08-20-2009, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ARCHIE

I hate to throw a monkey wrench into this baby thing here but Buddy
is a male and he does the samething. His baby, the rubber clown, get's
carried around all the time, at times with him whinning looking where he
want's to put it. Please don't tell me he thinks he's female! LOL

lol

anniernc · 08-20-2009, 10:54 AM

When I got Izzie the breeder gave us a tye dye teddy bear. Izzie would sleep with it and that was about all. Then she had a false pregnacy and it all changed. She started carrying that bear every where. She would curl up around it like she was nursing it and she wouldn't let the other dogs have it. That was about 2 yrs ago. She is spayed now but she still carries her bear everywhere. It is always with her and heaven forbid when it wears out because I cannot find another one like it. Sometimes at bedtime we can't find where she has put it and take her to bed without it but have to get up and find it because she sits on the side of the bed whining.

manina · 08-20-2009, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ARCHIE

I hate to throw a monkey wrench into this baby thing here but Buddy
is a male and he does the samething. His baby, the rubber clown, get's
carried around all the time, at times with him whinning looking where he
want's to put it. Please don't tell me he thinks he's female! LOL

Well I hope not since he is a male, but u can look it up and read on false pregnancy with female !!!
bark@ulater!!!!
manina,miley

,max

MaddieBoo · 08-20-2009, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ARCHIE

I hate to throw a monkey wrench into this baby thing here but Buddy
is a male and he does the samething. His baby, the rubber clown, get's
carried around all the time, at times with him whinning looking where he
want's to put it. Please don't tell me he thinks he's female! LOL

Lucas has a favorite toy and is similar with it. He doesn't whine, but I will often find Moo Cow in various corners and hiding spots, and Lucas looking at me like "How did you find that?!?!"

chachi · 08-20-2009, 11:14 AM

I would let her keep her toys I dont see any harm in it

08-20-2009, 07:12 AM	#1
jadabug Jada + Bogie = ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Mayberry AKA smalltown usa Posts: 24,078	thinks her toys are her babies Hi everyone I have a question...does anyone have a problem with their female yorkie carrying small stuffed toys around trying to hide them and getting agitated..I think Jada thinks they are her pups or something. She is 2 yrs old and had one litter of pups. I wonder if I should just hide these small toys from her. I hate for her to get upset. Anyone have any suggestions?: __________________ Michelle, Jada and Bogie Last edited by jadabug; 08-20-2009 at 07:16 AM.

08-20-2009, 07:42 AM	#4
jadabug Jada + Bogie = ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Mayberry AKA smalltown usa Posts: 24,078	she doesn't growl or get aggressive. She just whines and keeps trying to find the perfect hiding place. She will let me take it away from her without a fight. I just hate thinking she is missing her pups or something. I guess i'm just overprotective lol . __________________ Michelle, Jada and Bogie

08-20-2009, 08:16 AM	#5
lovespandp ♥Momma's Bambino♥ Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Ca Posts: 10,026	Peanut does that! Only with his bone..he will carry it around and dig in his blankets in his bed's and bury it..Sometimes it will walk around back and forth trying to find the perfect spot! __________________ "People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so."

08-20-2009, 10:21 AM	#9
FlDebra Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: FL Posts: 7,651	Is it possible she is having a false pregnancy? I have a dachshund that had a couple of false pregnancies. She would gather several small plush toys and make a nest in my closet. She would not want to leave them for anything and would whine and cry if we took them. We would make her come out to go outside to potty and she could not rush back in fast enough -- just like a momma dog with her puppies. The first time around she actually had milk come in and I took her to the vet. He explained it was not unusual. If she had gotten engorged, he would give her a shot, but she seemed to work through it on her own. After that, she went through the guarding her toys routine but never got milk after the first time. It usually lasted around two weeks and then she would go back to normal. __________________ FlDebra and her ABCs Annie, Ben, Candy Promoting Healthy Breeding to the AKC Yorkshire Terrier Standard

08-20-2009, 11:14 AM	#15
chachi I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Posts: 37,147	I would let her keep her toys I dont see any harm in it __________________ Chachi's & Jewels Mom Jewels http://www.dogster.com/?132431 Chachi http://www.dogster.com/?132427

08-20-2009, 07:35 AM	#2
EverythingMiley Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: United States Posts: 262	I would just let her be. She will most likely eventually quit doing this..

08-20-2009, 10:27 AM	#10
ARCHIE No Longer A Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NEW YORK Posts: 16,218	I hate to throw a monkey wrench into this baby thing here but Buddy is a male and he does the samething. His baby, the rubber clown, get's carried around all the time, at times with him whinning looking where he want's to put it. Please don't tell me he thinks he's female! LOL

08-20-2009, 10:54 AM	#12
anniernc YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brooks, Ga. Posts: 1,003	When I got Izzie the breeder gave us a tye dye teddy bear. Izzie would sleep with it and that was about all. Then she had a false pregnacy and it all changed. She started carrying that bear every where. She would curl up around it like she was nursing it and she wouldn't let the other dogs have it. That was about 2 yrs ago. She is spayed now but she still carries her bear everywhere. It is always with her and heaven forbid when it wears out because I cannot find another one like it. Sometimes at bedtime we can't find where she has put it and take her to bed without it but have to get up and find it because she sits on the side of the bed whining.