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YT Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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| ![]() Personalities change so much in the first few months. When I went and picked out Mya, she was quiet, laid back, and honestly just sat back and watched her brothers play and fight. She never once barked. Now, she is my little terror! She'll bark at you if she wants to play or isn't getting her way, she barks at the neighbors (that ones annoying and has to stop), she instigates fights with Oliver and literally teases him when she still has her treat and he gobbled his down (he usually steals it though, lol). Potty training has been horrid but we're finally getting somewhere. Her breeder still can't believe the changes in her, she doesn't believe me cuz the little bugger is all nice and sweet when she's over there, lol. She is cuddly, but on HER terms. If she's tired she will come cuddle, but that's about it. She's just a baby, learning new things and exploring her new world. Give your little one some time. She's soooo young... She has a lot more changes ahead of her. Keep training, loving, and be patient. Remember that dogs have personalities and can't be molded into what we want them to be - we need to learn to love what we've got. Sometimes adding a 2nd yorkie can help - They help tire each other out, and I've got one independent and one glued to my hip. I love having 2 and would never go back to one. I'd wait until your little one was a little older though, and at the very least, fully potty trained. Hang in there, it will get better... my first 2 months with both dogs pretty much sucked.. and now we're into a routine and things are better.
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Troy, Alabama
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Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Alabama
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| ![]() From what you state in your first post, you got your Yorkie very early...8 weeks? 8-12 weeks of age is a key time frame for socialization skills learned by the pup staying with the mom and littermates. Your little one missed out on that, so you have to factor in a 'learning curve' for her. ![]() ![]() |
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YT Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Illinois
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| ![]() Addie was three months old when we got her, and she wasn't much of a cuddle bug either. For my part, I do kind of like that independent, spunky, stubborn spirit she has. Reminds me of someone. ![]() Anywho, she has become more cuddly with time (she's two years old now). She certainly doesn't like it when you wrap your arms around her, but she now tolerates it. I can even get her to kiss me by making a kissy noise. When she was younger, it was almost like she gave me a look of disgust when I tried to get a kiss from her.
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I have had several different breed of dogs and loved them all, but i have never experienced with them what I do with my yorkies (past and present). The love and connection is hard to truly explain. | |
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Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: ohio
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| ![]() As others have said 6wks is way too young to get a dog and it is not legal to sell a puppy until it is at least 8wks. For most of the breeders that I've gotten my previous yorkies from, most of them will refuse to let their pup leave until it's at least 12 wks due to yorkies small size and stubborness. so to give up would be as though you give up on an infant because you're worried it might not do well in college. it's has a long ways into the future. remember they have a much longer lifespan. none of my yorkies have been cuddlers until they got older and settled down a bit. they all wanted to sleep with me but i wouldn't let them sleep in the bed overnight until they were at least a year and fully housebroken. my new little scamp Logan is all over the place. he barks at me, my mother. either for attention, food, to play, to demand someone clean up his pee puddle or out of boredom. you can't take what a dog does personally and they definitely like to test the waters and see how far they can push you sometimes. he also doe the keep away. where he will run at full speed and try to crawl under the couch. which is a reason he's been put on a 30 ft leash indoors so we can teach him to come when he is called and to reel him in if he doesn't listen. he's not much of a cuddler either. he'll let you hold him for a minute and then he'll cry to be let down so he can get into stuff. you can see him looking around with an expression like what can i get into now? sometimes i'll hold him a little longer than he wants me to just because he'll start licking your face and hands to make you put him down. i would rather he lick to be put down over wriggling free and just running off. i love their little personalities though and i wouldn't change a thing about them. |
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| ![]() I have to assume when you ask for suggestions before you "give up", you are just frustrated and may have to 'give up' the dream of a cuddly puppy. That said, please have faith and patience - I'm sure we've all gone through that frustration at some point. I got Rocco at 8 weeks with the breeder's blessing (me not knowing any better at the time even though I did LOTS of research), and I also heard all of the scary talk on YT about how awful it was to get him so soon. Yes, we went through a biting problem very early on, but we corrected that and have no problems today. Rocco also isn't a cuddlebug unless he's tired, but he is getting more mature and calm by the day....I often have to remind myself that he's only 6 months old. Another issue you have to think of is establishing yourself as the Alpha Dog, before your pup takes on the role herself. Strict training, a regular schedule and heaps of patience will pay off big. Best of luck to you.
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| ![]() We brought Bella home at 11 weeks and even though she was a joyous ball of fun and playfulness, she really wasn't any kind of a lap dog. She preferred to play and still prefers to play with our other dogs and our cats! BOY DOES SHE LOVE THE CATS! Anyway, Bella is now 6 months old and just recently she has begun to spend a little more time in our laps. She now comes to us for petting and will take a short nap in the lap or laying beside us in our chair. She still doesn't lay there all night or for hours but much longer than when she was a younger pup. As for the barking Bella does not bark at noises or at other animals outside the yard, but when she wants to play or wants something that another dog has she will bark till you go mad. We are working on this problem and slowly we are making headway but it does take time. Bella is the most playful, sweetheart and even though she isn't a "lapdog" yet I know she is headed that way. We just have to wait for her to sow her wild oats!
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Addy loves to play with her three cats and get very vocal with them also. | |
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