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04-24-2014, 08:45 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Mexico
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| 5 months old Puppy suddenly ignoring me Whenever I call her by her name, she just seems to continue to do whatever she does. Not even clapping or tapping my knees gets her attention, but my mom manages to get it with her voice alone. She now only responds to me when I signal her to come to my side. I also tried to do some testing for deafness (in case she got sudden hear losing), but she responds to key shaking and the sound of maracas, even the barking of my older dogs and them moving around their steel bowls (they got their resting area in a different floor so there's quite the distance between them and my puppy). Has she just gotten so used to my presence to the point of considering my voice background noise? Last edited by JuanRamos; 04-24-2014 at 08:49 PM. |
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04-24-2014, 08:49 PM | #2 |
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| Sounds like an issue with the peking order. Do you let her get away with more things than your mom does. Yorkies can easily charm the pants off of any stubborn hearted person so it's easy for owners of Yorkies to let them get away with naughty behavior thus making the Yorkie feel as though she is more entitled than the human and then the pack order gets all out of control because the Yorkie feels that they are the pack leader. |
04-24-2014, 08:57 PM | #3 | |
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I've had issues controlling biting before with younger pups, but even with the most stubborn puppy doing crying/growling noises would get them to do a "curious face", with them tilting their heads as if trying to figure out what was wrong with me. She just doesn't stop at all when I try to stop her from biting, though she did stop to biting as hard as she did when we first got them. Now she bites a lot gentlier. I pretty much tried everything the woman in this video did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd80zT6BwYE | |
04-24-2014, 09:06 PM | #4 |
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| By the way, she had her first grooming session when she was past 4 months old. I wonder if she could have gotten a mixture of wax and hair inside of her ears since the vet told us that her hair was already pretty long. When she arrived home after getting her hair cut she used to scratch her ears and rub her head against the sofa's cushions, but that didn't last long. And I got the feeling she just wanted to take off the ribbon that the groomer placed around her neck, or that maybe she wasn't used to not having hair blocking her eyesight anymore or her ears weighing less, but now I'm afraid that she might have gotten something stuck inside of her canal. She didn't get sedated so I'm ruling out sudden hear loss after anesthesia. We only took her to that vet's grooming place because we could see how they groomed her from the reception. Then again, she did get a quick check-up (it wasn't still time for her last puppy shot), so I guess I'm just grasping at straws to justify this sudden change in behaviour. And if there was something still stuck inside of her ears, then I'd assume that the scratching and rubbing her head against cushions would have continued. Last edited by JuanRamos; 04-24-2014 at 09:11 PM. |
04-25-2014, 08:27 AM | #5 |
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| She seems to be ignoring rattling keys as well. Only really loud noises from outside or other rooms (specially our Blender, which she hasn't heard much of) get her attention. Can she still feel vibrations if she's on top of her crate's cushion? The blender was 2 rooms away when her ears twitched and she faced to the exit of the room where I'm currently keeping her. I'm starting to think that she just became way too self-absorbed. I'll still take her to the vet today to have her ear canals checked. A plug of hair wouldn't cause foul odor right away, right? I noticed that the groomer only trimmed the top of her ears and left the chunks of hair around her ears, and I guess there's also the chance that some of the cut hair could have gone inside of her canals. I honestly didn't know that deafness caused by hair plugs was an issue with toy breeds. Apparently Poodles and Yorkies have it the worst. Now I feel awful for ignoring her head shaking and ear scratching, even if it only lasted a couple of hours. Last edited by JuanRamos; 04-25-2014 at 08:30 AM. |
04-25-2014, 08:40 AM | #6 |
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| by the way, hair plugs don't cause irreparable damage in dogs, right? I once got my right ear unplugged after a week of feeling it numb due to lack of time, but it went back to normal after getting water and hair drained out of it. You couldn't even tell there was anything wrong with my ear by just peeking inside of it and there was no odor either, so I'd like to think it's the same for them since she's pretty much acting normal outside of this sudden weakening of hearing. Another thing I've noticed is that she always reacts to my father's voice, who kept her with him for a week to keep her as a secret gift for my sis. The reason I'm the one making the threads in her place is because my english is a lot better than hers, and I still think of the puppy as mine since she's part of the family and right now my sister is unable to look after her properly because her home is being remodeled (and also being made a lot more dog-friendly as well) and she can't take her to work (some of the special kids she tends in her school are allergic to dogs). Last edited by JuanRamos; 04-25-2014 at 08:45 AM. |
04-25-2014, 08:59 AM | #7 |
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| How does she react if you squeak her favorite toy, cry "Squirrel!" or get out her food and begin preparing it when she is in another room? Does she immediately come running? She may have hearing issues where the tone of some sounds is more easily heard than others. It could be congenital but also could be from a small cyst on the nerve or inside the ear or a partially perforated ear drum, unusual growth of hairs or things in the ear canal(s) wad of ear wax - or it could all be behavioral and she ignores what she wishes to ignore. I'd have the vet check her hearing and her ears and try to find if anything physical is behind this.
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04-25-2014, 09:15 AM | #8 |
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| Well, her favorite toy is a cotton chewtoy, but she inmediately comes running when anyone opens a door (We don't let her in the bathrooms or my mom's bedroom). Would she still be able feel "vibrations" even if she were 3 rooms away and on top of a sofa? She also starts to look around when the phone rings or something (dogs, children, etc.) make noise out in the streets, and only turned around once when I made noise with a frying pan and a pot, as if she quit being interested after finding out I was the source of it. This apparent deafness gets a lot worse when she enters what I'd consider her "hunting mode". She roams under the table and behind furniture as if looking for something (I guess rodents or food scraps). I rattled keys right next to her ears and got no reaction from her, but when she's inside her crate I do get a reaction from her, but I dunno if it's just her feeling the vibrations hitting her crate. Also, I took a closer look at her ears, and it seems like there's indeed a bit of hair coming from inside them, so I'll take her today to the vet to get them checked. |
04-25-2014, 12:59 PM | #9 |
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| Is she just as you put it roaming or does she press her head against the wall and things? How old is she?
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04-25-2014, 01:32 PM | #10 |
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| I doubt hair or wax is plugging her ears. A little rubbing and scratching after a grooming session is normal. My boys rubs their faces like crazy after a bath, and sometimes they will scratch at their ear flaps after I have shaved them. They have really long hair. An ear infection would produce either an odor, redness, or yucky discharge and she would be scratching continuously. This sounds more like a behavior thing. When you call her to you, is it always for something not so fun? If I called my boys to me only when I wanted to groom them, for instance, they would stop coming to me. I mix it up with calling them to me simply for a reward. If you do think it is a hearing problem, take her to the vet and discuss your concerns.
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04-25-2014, 02:03 PM | #11 | |
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I just did a test with my dad and she seems to react just fine to his voice, even if I'm petting her and he's in a different room. Anyway, I just came back from a friend's graduation ceremony and she spent all the morning watching TV with my mom. She called me to tell me that she was doing just fine and got off the sofa when she yelled "Get off" or "No!" at her. She even turned her face in the direction my mom was yelling from. Right now she's tired and just sleeping in her crate. I wonder if she doesn't get startlet at all by rattling keys because she already got too used to loud noises due to her habit of watching TV. Last edited by JuanRamos; 04-25-2014 at 02:06 PM. | |
04-25-2014, 02:07 PM | #12 |
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| Dogs often don't react to things they are used to and your rattling the keys a bunch to test her has probably just inured her to them and there's no reason to react as far as she sees it. But if she comes running when you call her, squeak a toy or open her food container while she's in another room, she can likely hear just fine - she's just become selective to whom and what she responds. I'd still have the vet check her hearing and ears.
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04-25-2014, 02:11 PM | #13 |
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| Right now there are people outside fixing our porch's steel fence and she's indeed reacting to the noise of their machines, though she feels safe enough in her crate to just go back to sleep after realizing that the noise isn't from anything close to her. Anyway, thanks for the replies. I'm glad that rubbing her face and scratching her ears is something normal after a grooming session. It was her first session after all. |
04-25-2014, 02:23 PM | #14 | |
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I'll still take her to the vet to get her ears checked in case she got one plugged with hair. It seems that waiting until she almost turned 5 months was a bit too late for her first grooming session, according to what one of my sister's friends told her. Last edited by JuanRamos; 04-25-2014 at 02:26 PM. | |
04-25-2014, 02:46 PM | #15 |
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| Dogs that grow an inordinate mass of hair in an ear can become more easily coated with some wax and dirt, dust, etc., which could diminish hearing, especially if the dog already had some hearing or tonal problems but more than likely, any hearing problems are related to the ear itself or the dog's tuning out things she prefers to ignore. If the vet can find no hearing or ear problems, start her on a good, regular obedience training program where she's encouraged to have fun learning and excited to do what you ask and will come running every time you call or get up to do anything just because she's eager to engage with you. Enrich her life with interesting puzzles-for-treats and games you teach her to play and fun outdoors activities with you and she will want to be with you and will no doubt hear you every time.
__________________ 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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