Barking when he hears children's voices and worse when he sees them Yesterday my wife and I went to Long Island from CT to pick up our purebred Yorkshire Terrier from a shelter he is a rescue dog that came from Manhattan everything with him is fine fine with other dogs ,adults and seems to have some behavior training,BUT today when he heard children's voices he started barking uncontrolably so I took him out to meet our children neighbors and the barking was insane can anyone give us some advice he is 2 yrs old maybe he never saw kids before I don't because other than that he is quiet and just great any ADVICE PLEASE |
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Not sure if this helps or not but maybe your new baby just loves kids and perhaps hasn't been around them in awhile. |
Thank you for rescuing this baby boy from an uncertain future. But like his future could have been, his past is uncertain for you to know....he may have had horrible encounters with children and that is where this behavior comes from. I am not a trainer, so I can not help you....I just wanted to give you an idea of what may be going on. I have a breeder that absolutely detests men....men of all shapes, sizes and ages! She has been with me and my son, for 9 years, and every single time Kara sees my son, which is many times during the day, every day, for the past 9 years, she goes absolutely crazy insane. The barking that she erupts into is breath taking.....if he enters the room she is in, she goes after his ankles, but she nips at his pants leg or shoe....she has NEVER bitten him. If he bends down to get her, when he gets his hands on her, she has never bitten him....she just gives up and I can imagine she waits for Death to be dealt to her.......she has never cowered when you reach for her, like you would expect a beaten dog to do......Kara is retired and is no longer used for breeding....but she will stay with me until she passes because I could not risk giving her to someone that may not be tolerant of this intense, overwhelming fear she has of men. At the vet, only the female techs handle her, simply to keep her from being in such terror from a man holding her. They can not believe such a precious, adoring, sweet little girl turns into a raging, fearful maniac when a man enters the picture. Like I said, poor soul has never bitten a single soul, she just absolutely freezes and her heart beats out of her chest........ but I wish I could get my hands on whoever put this fear in her. So, you never know what your baby endured with children that could prompt such reaction. Perhaps a animal behaviorist could help work it out....just be understanding and dont subject him to exposure to children....he MAY bite one, and then you have a whole different can of worms, that is certainly not that pup's fault! (Kids can enjoy tormenting dogs...they used to torment my dogs thru the fence when they did not realize I was sitting within eye sight of them...when they got off the school bus and were walking down the sidewalk, my babies would run to the fence to play and look at the kids....then they started hitting on the fence and yelling and banging, and turned those precious babies into kid haters!) |
My vet told me once that such type of behavior is due to incidents of past. Some people also say that during training period, one rough incident would be enough to scare them for rest of their life. |
My now all past lil girls did not like children, why, in my family there were only 2 small children, 3 & 5 years old, when they would visit me, or I would visit them all the pups came with me, these 2 little girls would scream to the top of their lungs as out sheer excitement over seeing the dogs, they were not afraid of my loves, loved them, they were just 2 little screamers, well their screaming scared the day lights out of my dogs, When the little girls calmed down and wanted to pet my dogs, the dogs would run and hide, scared to death of these kids. That's one story, 2nd story, I was a camper for many years, there would be little boys with super soaker water guns, they would sneak around their trailer and shoot the dogs with water, they got my dogs in a panic, to the point if any of my dogs would have gotten loose they would have bitten these boys. My girls were loving passive babies, but ended up having such a fear of kids I could not trust them around any children. I would think your new baby had bad experiences with children. Try introducing him to only one CALM child (keep leash on him), see what his reaction is. Good luck. |
Crystal too loves Children and I constantly have to retrieve her from all the new little friends she makes on the beach. Actually I encourage her, as I want her to be well rounded socially (it's worked well to date) and she's naturally a really loving little soul. However I do watch her carefully as I've heard children can hurt our little wards by boisterous activity? |
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