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07-03-2015, 07:13 AM | #1 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | Walking large n small and small dog/big dog I thought I d share what my training with my Yorkie for over 6yrs and just being trained myself for about 10 yrs with large n small - and what so far I have come to experience is the safest way to walk these dogs of disparate size. 1. Many folks won't like this one and if you are on your own well you just will be doing 4 walks a day - for I believe with a large and strong vigorous breed there is no way a single handler can do their best by both dogs if an intervention is necessary. Your Yorkie is unlikely to step back from the fray and will very much want to be a part of it! Which means the large dog is on its own as you control your very excited and protective Yorkie both from himself and not to get stepped on by other large dogs. You certainly can mix up your exercise periods - maybe one indoors for the wee one. One in the backyard for the big one separate to the wee one. 2. But walking your Yorkie. This is just you and your dog. I short rein in my dog when I see another dog/human team approaching. I also step slightly ahead of my dog - and will always give the widest distance possible when passing. If necessary I will cross the street if I see a dog team approaching I don't like the looks of. This means for you to be situationally aware ideally all the time - but hey life happens and sometimes you get surprised. 3. If the dog is still coming in - in an uncontrolled fashion I am out in front and I sternly use the STOP command If the dog does not stop - I use BAD DOG NO BAD DOG NO I know to say this with confidence is hard when you are in a tense situation - but the firmer in command you are with your voice and presence the greater the success you will have. 4. Jeanie likes to carry a large umbrella with her and will open that out in front of her if an animal is charging in. 5. Never trust a large dog. Sad isn't it for me to say this - but many many breeds do have a prey drive that is not well controlled or even controlled at all by their naïve owners. So always try to take control of the situation with your leash and dog handling skills and creating distance. Never be too shy to say to that other human - look keep your dog away. We are not saying Hi today. I remember at one of our BRT walks - stranger to me with her young under one year old pup kept allowing her dog to lunge out on the lead toward Razzle. I kept circling away from the pair keeping my body between the two - when finally in exasperation I said lady CONTROL your Dog. This one is too excited to say Hi to my boy. I am not too diplomatic.... After I had calmed down - I took Magic out and over to her with her young excitable pup and said watch the correct approach. I had Magic in a sit stay and asked her to walk in slowly under control - of course she allowed the pup to lunge at Magic I put one hand out and said Ignore - Magic moved not an inch. Then I said Wait. Took her dog in my hand and said observe. And showed the demo again. The pup did not lunge was made to walk around Magic - sit on my left side with Magic on my right - and after 5 minutes of this was finally allowed to sniff noses on a loose lead. I hope this helps for some.
__________________ Razzle and Dara. Our clan. RIP Karma Dec 24th 2004-July 14 2013 RIP Zoey Jun9 th 2008-May 12 2012. RIP Magic,Mar 26 2006July 1st 2018 |
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07-03-2015, 08:10 AM | #2 |
YT 1000 Club Member | Thank you so much for posting this! I have yorkies and my husband has a medium sized breed(bulldog). I usually walk all the dogs myself excluding the new puppy who I carry in a knapsack until shots are completed. I've had the hardest time trying to figure out how to walk our dogs. Our bully is friendly, one yorkie is aggressive, another is nonchalant, and the last no one can touch since vacs aren't completed. I've resorted to walking the yorkies and letting the bulldog use my treadmill for exercise; since bulldogs have low tolerance for heat and strenuous exercise while my yorkies seem like they can go miles. Do you and your husband usually have each dog on separate leads or do you use couplers? |
07-03-2015, 08:33 AM | #3 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | Separate leads always. But we have two large dogs. We walk either the Yorkie alone - or if we go out with a Yorkie and a Blackie it is one dog per human. We also know that if trouble looks to be brewing we create space between us. Like a large dog coming in uncontrolled. I usually have my big boy on lead as he is obedience trained by me. My hubby walks the Yorkie. We do the same drill if we each are walking the big ones. Trouble coming create distance - helps with control because your pack will act as a pack which can escalate things very very quickly. We will switch this up at indoor shows where space is always limited as one can not create space there - so as hubby is the stronger I will take the younger weaker Blackie - distance again and hubby takes my big one. It is a trade off - Magic is highly geared to protect me - not so much hubby - hubby is both stronger and if another big dog goes for him Magic might not be so much in protection mode and hubby can lift n turn Magic away if necessary. We once had a situation at the hotel we were staying for our Nationals - now here there was mainly lots of space - but as my joints were sore we were going down the handicap ramp - and low n behold we turned a corner and there was two Blackies coming up the ramp! I had the big boy hubby the young gal. Well hubby went by - I scampered up the ramp with Magic and started to go down the stairs which TG had a central bar. The couple that had been coming up the handicap had also turned to go up the stairs. Well as I had figured when I saw them they had no control - their male leapt up those stairs in attack mode to Magic - I quickly wrapped Magics lead around that bar and held on for dear life hoping the couple would get their dog under control. Luckily inches away from each other they did. They apologized to me - but it would have been a nasty fight if that young male had tried to take on Magic. My fallback plan was to quickly unhinge Magic - and try to break up the fight from a rear lift. The point is things happen quickly and if you do a bit of pre thinking when bad stuff happens you can re act quickly and hopefully successfully.
__________________ Razzle and Dara. Our clan. RIP Karma Dec 24th 2004-July 14 2013 RIP Zoey Jun9 th 2008-May 12 2012. RIP Magic,Mar 26 2006July 1st 2018 |
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