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04-06-2015, 11:43 AM | #1 |
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| Help!my yorkies are fighting! Hi! We have two yorkies a male and a female. Both a year and a half old. Some days ago the female started attacking the male whenever me or my husband are taking the male yorkie on our hands. The male yorkie is afraid of her and knows that if someone of us will take him or pet him the female yorkie will jump on him and start to fight. We think that the female yorkie is the aggressor so we have tried time outs, spraying water to separate them when they are fighting, we have tried to show that the aggression is not acceptable. I just feel sorry for the male yorkie because he looks scared of her all the time. Can anybody tell why are they fighting? What do we do in this sittuation? Usually both yorkies sleep with us, now whenever i take the male yorkie and put him in the bed she attacks him. |
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04-07-2015, 09:41 AM | #2 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| Are your dogs intact? (not spayed/neutered?) Females can become very aggressive when "that time of the month" is about to come around.....humans call it "pre-menstral stress syndrome"!!! Be very cautious because she will really injure him if given the opportunity...dont leave them alone together, unsupervised....you may come home to a mortally wounded little boy. |
04-07-2015, 09:45 AM | #3 | |
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Sounds more like jealousy to me... Does your boy get more of your attention? | |
04-07-2015, 10:03 AM | #4 |
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| I have heard if the more Alpha personality is not the favorite they will then attack the weaker personality pup. I had that with my 2 females and had to send one upstairs to live with my daughter. She still tries to boss her other 2 larger dogs but they just ignore her.
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04-07-2015, 10:40 AM | #5 | |
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I ask the same
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04-07-2015, 10:48 AM | #6 |
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| Your little male showing signs of fear knows he will get picked up and cuddled, he could be doing this for extra attention. Female resents the extra attention the male gets, says, hey, what about me. I would start showing the female more attention, instead of taking the male to bed, take the female first, then get the male, show the female she is #1, just do it as a test for a week or so, see how her attitude is. Neither dog you be # 1, you should be the alpha. If they were my pups i would do what I have suggested to you, just to see how the female reacts. I had 3 females, all 3 years apart, never a fight, no jealousy, two older ones were not spayed, the youngest one was.
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04-07-2015, 12:14 PM | #7 |
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| Here is a copy and paste from another thread about a Yorkie and a Chihuhua that you might read and adapt in some way to help your little aggressor: Best to teach your little aggressor he's not in charge of the chihuahua, you are, by stepping in and stopping his bad behavior by watching him like a hawk and anytime he focuses in on, alerts to or goes very still and glares at or begins to approach the chi with ears and tail up, you stop him right then. Immediately jump up, firmly saying, "Leave it!", pointing/clapping and then pointing and glaring at him as you quickly walk into his personal space and back him off, standing there glaring and pointing over him until he softens, gives up and walks away. The moment he leaves, you sit down, all is over. This teaches him that giving up on his attitude stops all tension of the situation and it's over. In time, he'll learn to go into submission faster to ease the situation and stress of the moment. If you are too late, step in and break up the fight with a firm, loud, "Leave it!" and stand the attacker down by walking into his space, backing him away, glaring and pointing at him and standing your ground until he softens, gives up and leaves the area. The moment he relaxes, you do. That's his signal to relax sooner - the moment he relaxes and softens, you let up and back off, still watching him but backing off now that he's lost his aggression. Pack leaders often stare their pack members into submission by just not moving and giving them the old steady, meaningful glare until the pack member stops the unwanted behavior. I add the outstretched arm and finger-point and the words "leave it" when a dog is about to act up with another dog or get into something he shouldn't. If he's about to misbehave, I walk into his space and stand him down until he gives up. I do this every time he acts like he's about or wants to offend and sooner rather than later, the dog learns I, not he, is in control and begins to police his own behavior that he thinks might bring me in. I never yell or hurt, scare him - just take confident control and send him away from the area by displacing him. And I watch him as dogs trying to bully another dog often wait just a second and go right back at it until they have learned it's totally hopeless. So be prepared to need to go at this for at least 2 weeks and anytime the offense recurs. So you will need to repeat this process more than a few times to instill the lesson that you are the pack leader in your little family pack into your little leader wannabe. Be firm, confident but gentle. Starting your little tough guy on the Nothing In Life Is Free program, life enrichment activities with him such as foraging games and toys, obedience training for 3-5 mins. 2-3 x daily and reading Tamar Geller's The Loved Dog will also give you more tools for handling your dog than you will likely need but you'll be a much better dog handler afterwards - and your dog will love it all. They do get totally into NILIF and obedience training when you keep it short, frequent and fun.
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04-07-2015, 12:35 PM | #8 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| I think breeders with multiple intact dogs, are more apt to see beyond just an issue as simple as "Jealousy". Hopefully, simple jealousy is all the OP is dealing with....even if it suddenly took them a year and a half to decide to develop this jealousy, both pups have been together this entire time with no problem, both are the same age, been no change in ownership, etc! |
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