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Old 05-23-2014, 05:00 PM   #1
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Unlove Please someone help my yorkie won't stop crying!!!!!!!

I completely know he is a spoiled little boy, but when we go out he always get a toy he picks out. This week he gotten some new chew toys he loves. He plays with them all day long. Now here is the sad part he walk around and cries with them in his mouth, he tries to dig up everything from blankets to pillows to bed to the couch to hide his toys. this is totally new, HE does have his hiding spot for certian thing (Food) or other no no items he steals. Does any other yorkie lover out there have this problem. How Can I fix it. Is there a in home digging kit I can get? PLEASE HELP the crying is killing me it all day and night......
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When Max was a pup, he dug and buried his toys in the sides of his bed. He did not cry, but I have heard of other Yorkies who whimper when they have something they love.

If the crying is bothersome, try diverting his attention and try wearing him out, burning off the excess energy. Play fetch for a few minutes. Go for walk to tire him out (if he is old enough). Do some training for obedience and tricks, like sit, stay, down, handshake.
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Thank you so much, I don't feel only in the crying craziness . We started hiding it in his blankets to make him find it, and also played (he did not put the chew done for one minute but did stop crying.
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I think they whine and cry because they know they don't have adequate hiding places for their toys or chewies and wherever they hide them, they can still smell them and know they aren't really hidden from other predators. If a dog begins obsessing over the chewies, it's time to remove all of them, wash or toss them, wash and/or spray his bed, his crate and the hiding places with Lysol spray or Febreze to try to lower the remaining scent of them where he's hidden them in the past and better to get him busy learning obedience and playing fetch or with other toys and balls, puzzle games or several small kong toys filled with treats or kibble.

My Tibbe will spend 45 minutes with 3 small kong toys filled with his kibble. That's often how he eats his dinner. Or with a plastic drink bottle washed and dried, filled with pieces of dog kibble for him to hit hard enough to bounce the kibble out piece at a time.

My Tibbe's greatest fun is carrying around his chewies and hiding them and wanting me to find them! It's his greatest fun game to hide them, get them, re-hide them and then come get me to come look for them. He'll do that all day long but rarely ever chews on them at all!!! But when he keeps obsessing, I take them all up, wash or toss them and spray the places they've been hidden and we do other things, long walks, other games and puzzles and divert his attention to other things. Before long though, I give him a few new chewies and we start all over with the game he loves for a while.
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Thank you, we do the same to get him to eat we also put kibble in plastic Easter eggs. He love to chase them around to break them open. We been taking the chewy and hiding it from him he seems to like to run and find it. We tried using it as a train tool but had no luck. He is only 5 months and seems to not like long toys except the bone. In one way I hate to throw the chewy away due to since we gave it to him he has not chewed on anything else but is the cring keeps up I may have to do it. We are going to get him a sand box due to his love to dig. Thank you for your help it nice to know we are not alone!!
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Our Heeler, Sig had a favorite vinyl football shed had since a pup, took it to bed with her and brought it out in morning. Well after about 10 years it was in sad shape so I searched and searched for a replacement. One day I found the exact same football in a toy pack at Petco, bought the pack, threw the rest away.


I washed it and gave it to her after sneaking the other one to the trash can. She went into wailing pitiful whine like she was in pain and kept the new football in her mouth for several days whining intermittently. But you could tell she was thrilled, I had told her I'd fixed it when I gave it to her. She knew this phrase as I used it when ever she was sick or hurt or went to the Vet.
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Oh, you are far from alone. Many a bored dog will fall into troublesome behavior they keep up until it drives their owner crazy! A sand box would be wonderful and help him learn to enjoy other instinctive activities but he could become an inveterate digger and begin to dig obsessively on your expensive carpets, couches, bedspreads and chairs until they are worn thin in spots so be sure he doesn't obsess over digging. Not too many toy dogs become OCD about constant digging though. The thing is, he'd probably love to hide his chewies in the sand! But, if he can still smell them himself, he still may cry as he'll still know they aren't well hidden.

In the wild, dogs can run for miles to hide their goodies and feel rather secure they've gotten their goods away from the pack but in a yard and home situation, they know hiding, which they instinctively want to do, is really useless as far as anything being really secreted away, as the scent carries throughout the immediate property.

His constant crying now is serving three purposes - expressing his dismay at not having a good place to hide his resources, gives him something to do - kind of like frequent, useless barking some dogs do to pass the time and manipulating you into giving him more attention so he'll probably keep it up as long as it serves his purposes. If this were my dog, I'd buy him some new toys and remove the chewies for now so he won't become obsessive over them and in a couple of weeks, return them for a while until he begins crying again - at which time I'd remove them once more for another two weeks. You just don't want to create a dog who learns to cry whenever he's frustrated, to pass the time or get attention.

From what you describe, again, if this were my dog, I think I'd decide he mostly needs more life enrichment activities such as puzzles and games I'd create to play with him, such as hiding treats throughout the room for him to search out, puzzle toys to work, lots more daily exercise, at least twice daily 5 minutes of obedience training(all dogs absolutely love to learn new things and work toward a goal and get praise, treats from you in the process) to fulfill him more than chewing rawhide and whining as a past-time. I'd get that out of his life for the present and show him some new interesting, more fulfilling, less frustrating things to enjoy.
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Guinney walks around with toys and cries hunting for a hiding spot and making sure nobody watches and he is 3.
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Bob does that too he moves his treats around the house about 20 times until he is happy that they are well hide
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I have to say my boys n gals don't hide their toys, but then again toys are only given out by me for short durations, and it is either supervised play time with me, or I let them chew while I keep an eye on them.

Enrich your dogs life in so many little ways. Often times we play in the backyard. Or in the front yard with different things to do. Obstacle courses, fetch of course, hide a treat in the great outdoors, Let yagility, obedience training, mix it up day by day. Walks are so good for them on so many levels.

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To date I've never had a dog hide toys or treats, digging occasionally, but I stop that as soon as it starts. I always start with a no competition/threat attitude with food, toys, whatever, that way if they find something bad I can take it before they get hurt or sick. Same goes for chewing, they know what's theirs and what's mine and from puppy never get chance to chew our things, furniture. Also early on I teach them not to tear up some toys, telling them when I give them to "Take it easy". I guess having started with big dogs made me do this as standard, cause a RidgeBack or Dobie can demolish toys in seconds.


Matter of fact come playtime I sometimes have had to find the mutts ball or toy as they will have forgotten where they left it last, lol.
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