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07-12-2013, 06:37 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: MN
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| we take in pets that need re-homing...#11 is a Yorkie and he's mean to 2 of our pets We take in pets that need re-homing...#11 is a Yorkie and he's mean to 2 of our pets. He also bites people. He's about 1 and has lived most of his life B4 us in a kennel. He hasn't been trained. He wasn't socialized. He barks WAY too much.I think he was manhandled to the point of abuse(?). He came to us VERY thin. My family wants me to re- re-home him. I've always taken in pets for FOREVER. I become attached...I'm not able to be a foster pet person. We've had him for 3 months and he STILL has to be on a leash all of the time in the house bcuz he might kill our cat and/or one of our dogs. HELPPPPP!!!! Training, so far, hasn't made much of a difference. I think he has ADHD, if a dog can have it...He came from a home where he was the only pet. He definitely wants to be the boss of this house. Any suggestions? ...also, if I HAVE to re-home him, how do I make sure he'll go to a family who will love him, not breed him, has only older kids and has no other pets? Thanks for your time. |
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07-13-2013, 05:28 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Wow, I'm so sorry to hear he's not adjusting...but I do think it's great that you've taken him in and are trying. I don't have any suggestions for training. We have some folks here in rescue, so perhaps they'll have some suggestions. Also, WELCOME to YT.
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07-13-2013, 06:17 AM | #3 |
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| Hello, welcome to Yorkie Talk! I'm sorry I don't have any advice for you but I think it's wonderful that you are trying to help this yorkie. I remember watching a Victoria Stilwell episode "It's Me or the Dog" and she helped train a small dog to accept cats, I can't remember the name of the episode though! Some of the trainers here might have some advice for you. Good luck, I hope everything works out for you. |
07-13-2013, 06:47 AM | #4 |
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| Please do not take this wrong. I think you might want to surrender this little guy to a Yorkie rescue. They have trainers, that know how to set up behavior modification lessons. The foster people are experienced and work closely with vets and trainers. The best way to find a Yorkie a forever home, is to retrain him or her to all the good things a family means. Fearful, biting, yippy, not potty trained are all things they know how to deal with. Thank you so much for your loving heart. I know some one will be the perfect match for this little guy. Maybe he needs to be in an only pet home. Hugs
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07-13-2013, 06:51 AM | #5 | |
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07-13-2013, 08:15 AM | #6 | |
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07-13-2013, 08:46 AM | #7 |
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| I agree that you should let people with experience have a chance to help this little guy. They will get him neutered right away which might help. I think you are a wonderful person to take this boy and try to help but maybe he is beyond your scope of experience. Good luck with whatever you choose to do.
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07-13-2013, 09:13 AM | #8 |
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| Tibbe was 9 mos. old and kennel-crazy from living all of his life outside in a cage and extremely fearful, completely unsocialized when I got him. I actually thought he was brain-damaged and called some professional trainers to try to tell me how to tell. He couldn't concentrate on anything. He literally walked into things and fell off the porch step he was so uncoordinated. He stood with a foot in his water bowl for no reason. He turned it over and ran screaming over and over! But I found he craved being the center of attention and an easy "paycheck" treat for doing something right. And once he learned he COULD achieve something and get "paid" for it, he began to love working at very, very short sessions at learning simple commands and getting well-paid for the process with a quick treat and smiling praise. He LOVED that I would give him a treat after doing something right. It lit him up! Before long he insisted on training! It took me almost a whole year to one by one work out 99% of his problems and that was devoting 100% of my time to him. He was completely wild and terrified, screaming/growling/biting out of fear and had no trust of ANYTHING his first weeks here and it was hard to even settle him down for the longest time but we slowly got there. After a year, he was a perfect, well-behaved, obedient pet who is bouncy, loving, charming and highly intelligent and learns new things now quickly. The little Yorkie you have probably needs such a program to help rehab him from his lack of trust and fear. Wanting to be boss is often a mistrusting, fearful dog who tries to let others know how tough he is as a defense mechanism and not just being mean. Getting him busy working at obedience training, impulse control, recognizing authority, Nothing In Life Is Free program, several sessions a day getting him trying to learn how to walk on a leash outside, pottytraining, challenging little games of seek the hidden treat, find the squeaky toy, etc., and a program of desensitization to the things he fears one by one is maybe one of the only ways to help him deal with his insecurities, fears and mistrusting state. If you have several dogs, that is very hard if not impossible to do. Rescue orgs. often have people that have the time, training and inclination to take this type of dog on.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
07-13-2013, 10:02 AM | #9 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Another thing about leashing a troubled dog around other dogs. If that leashed dog doesn't sense you are the strongest of pack leaders and have total control of the other dogs around him, he very well can assume he's trapped on that leash and can't escape should the other animals gang and attack him. It can be EXTREMELY stressful for a leashed dog that doesn't feel secure in you, the household or the other animals, or even with himself, to be around other animals at the end of a tether or leash. He knows he can't run farther than its length and he's a sitting duck. I know you are trying to protect all of the animals from him but it can be very stressful for a troubled dog to be "trapped" on a leash around other animals unless they are ALL EXTRMELY calm and submissive 100% of the time to him. It might be kinder to him to put him in an open, wire crate and allow the other dogs to come around him one at a time and offer treats to him through the crate as they approach, when you treat the helper dog too, and slowly desensitize him like that. Having another dog come up and sit or lie quietly beside the cage for a time as you treat him and the helper dog too, can help diffuse his worries and he'll understand that ultimately he's safe in that crate from any overly boisterous activity and besides he gets wonderful food every time they come around. Before long he can begin to look forward to it. And the other dogs can come to slowly adjust to him and his fear and instability and "bossy" attitude while he's safely confined there in the crate and come to love the treats they get as they approach and spend quiet time around him. Eventually, I'd bring him out in my arms, treat him and the nearby helper dog and return him to the crate ASAP. Then, extend the time out and in time, a couple of weeks, take him out and allow him to stand on the floor as you hold onto him calmly with your hands and treat them both, return him to the crate to de-stress and get another treat. Keep these sessions short - only 3 repetitions at first and slowly working up, backtracking if anybody gets real tense. Try something like that for a while and see how it works out but the leash is probably very worrying for the new guy wearing it as he's feeling very vulnerable on it right now when around other animals in the house.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
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