having a baby Hey everyone. Found out I'm going to be a father. Yaaay haha. I've had my yorkie for 3 years now, and he's had limited interaction with children. I'm just wondering if anyone here has any input on how I should integrate my New baby and my current baby (duke). |
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Really slowly, cautiously, and with as much patience as possible is really the only advice I can give. I had my boys when we had our first dog, an American Pit who was six when our oldest was born. Our dog was absolutely lovely and had never ever even growled at anyone, but we were still sure to watch all the time. We had one incident when she growled when the toddler yanked her ear. She was immediately corrected and it never happened again. That said, I am a very strong believer that young children and dogs should never, ever be left alone together, no matter the breed or size of the dog, or the temperament of the child. Anything can happen at anytime and it's just not worth the risk. |
Thanks Bobbi |
You're welcome. I understand the concern. This time around, I was more concerned about my dog than my kids because the boys are bigger and older than the dog now! Lol. Wanted to say CONGRATS, btw, since I so rudely forgot before :) |
Thanks again Bobbi. I'm sure my little duke will champ it out with the proper guidance from his loving parents |
Welcome to YT and congrats on a soon to be new daddy, just awesome. BobbiB gave very good advise introducing furbaby to human baby. |
While I am not a fan of Caesars, he did do a pretty good show on getting ready for a baby when you already have a dog. I don't do You tube or other searches too well, but mayhap you do. Essentially though is to get your dog acclimatized to your wife and for that matter you, carrying a bundle of milkly smelling human around in your arms. Nursing, et al, as well as baby carriages, prams, swings etc. You use a baby doll of course, and can saturate the clothing a bit with milk smells. For me I would also say if your dog is not crate or Xpenned trained, now is the time to do so. Because I firmly believe at some point or another you will need to do this for the safety of both your baby and your Yorkie. And like another poster posted, never leave your dog and your young child alone together at all! |
It's probably not an issue now but I know when Yorkies are "teased" they can get snappish. My Teddy gets snappy but when he "bites" it's either in the air or near my hand. That being said, I trained him with a firm "NO" which he got any time he even looked like he was going to bite. We don't play with him with our hands and when he was a baby he would try to bite our hands to play, as all puppies do, and so he was given a toy to play with instead. I think it may be important to teach your Yorkie that even play biting is not okay (if you haven't already) simply because when your baby is a toddler it WILL tease the dog and it WILL punish the dog for snapping at it (because all toddlers do) and the dog will either be afraid of the toddler or get defensive and, either way, the biting will escalate. Then, you'll have a hurt/confused Yorkie and a hurt/confused toddler! That's all the advice I have - I'm a mother to a teen now (THANKFULLY) so I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. Congrats to you and yours!!!!!!! |
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