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08-09-2014, 11:08 AM | #1 |
www.yorkierescue.com Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Las Vegas & Orange County
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| Toto's strange behavior at night before bed I've had Toto for over a year. Just the past week or so he started this thing. When it's time to go to bed (around midnight or 1am) I go to pick him up and he growls, snarls, and bites me. His bites are fake, doesn't break skin and hardly even touches me. But obviously he's annoyed. What gives? After I pick him up and bring him upstairs, he's fine and goes to bed quietly. I wonder why he's so upset? Too comfy in his pineapple bed to be bothered?
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08-09-2014, 12:10 PM | #2 |
I♥PeekTinkySaph&Finny Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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| Is he fully awake when you approach him?
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08-09-2014, 02:34 PM | #3 |
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| Maybe he is too comfy in his pineapple bed to be bothered. Teddy gives me a grumpy look when I disturb him from a comfortable spot at night.
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08-09-2014, 05:11 PM | #4 |
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| Yes he's fully awake. |
08-09-2014, 05:35 PM | #5 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | Crystal sometimes does this, especially if I need to move her to get into my bed! It looks quite fearsome, but the snap is only a faux and if I give her a few minutes, she's then coalesces and relaxes. I'm very laissez-faire with her moods as being an existentialist I believe dogs have their needs for space and privacy, just like us. My wife tends to treat her like a soft toy, repeatedly picking her up for cuddles etc. Consequently, I think she finds time with Dad less stressful. I do notice she occasionally enters very deep REM sleep and I try very hard not to disturb her in this mode. Also although she tends to look fully awake after stirring, she can be a bit comatose for a few minutes sometimes. I have the empathy to know that feeling and give her space to 'come to' in her own time. |
08-09-2014, 09:43 PM | #6 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: North Ridgeville, Oh. US
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| Bella does this if I have to pick her up from the other dogs' bed to go to bed. But, if I don't , she wakes me during the night to get into my bed.
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08-10-2014, 01:09 AM | #7 |
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| How about if you pick him up, bed and all, and take 'the whole thing' upstairs?!!? Otherwise, I think I'd leave him be, to sleep where he wants, until he makes his own arrangements and comes up to join you....
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08-10-2014, 07:30 AM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member | Hi I had a maltese that use to do that. When my husband came to bed he would move her over and she would growl and snap but not bite him. Not every night but pretty much every night. I think they don't like being disturbed. |
08-10-2014, 02:41 PM | #9 |
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| I have brought him up with the bed a few times. But he's not 100% potty trained, so I don't trust him with full run of the house and me not watching him. He didn't do it last night. I made sure to talk sweetly to him before reaching in to get him out.
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08-10-2014, 04:36 PM | #10 |
I♥PeekTinkySaph&Finny Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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| Tink did similar stuff when I first got her as a 2YO, but I think it was a dominance thing with her. She was the boss in her previous homes and was trying to continue the pattern with me. Finally she has learned that I will persist and that she doesn't scare me (well, not too much, lol). I think her learning to trust me over time has helped also.
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08-10-2014, 07:17 PM | #12 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Illinois
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| My Amy does that to my husband every night when he picks her up to take you out for the last time. She never bites him but is very cranky and growls and turns and barks at him. I think it is because she is sound asleep and he too abruptly wakes her up. She loves him all day until the last trip outside. |
08-10-2014, 07:28 PM | #13 |
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| I guess I just gotta make sure he's awake before I take him upstairs. But he just started doing this, so that's what I don't get.
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08-10-2014, 08:14 PM | #14 |
I♥PeekTinkySaph&Finny Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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| All mine have come to me as adults, so they each have their own 'baggage'. It amazes me ... they are all continually changing... like Sapphire just started to really play with me (she's been here going on 4-5 years!). That's a big thing... there have been smaller things along the way. Tink was a horrible biter... now I can put my fingers and hand in her mouth during play or to have a look at her mouth and she totally allows it with no problems. I think they go through stages, and I think it can take them a while to really trust people, and they will test you along the way. They'll also learn new things, some good and some not so good, lol... never static... at least not here.
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08-10-2014, 08:22 PM | #15 | |
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How is his eyesight? I ask bc sometimes in complete darkness, Luma is more alarmed if she sees my fiancé walking around but she can't tell who it is. She thinks she's our alert dog...but she's a harmless wimp
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