Anyone with big dog and little dog?
 

Hi,

I was just wondering who has a little yorkie puppy and an older, bigger dog. I have an almost 12 week yorkie who is very playful and loves to bite our feet when we are walking..including our black lab's feet who does not appreciate this. He is 80+ pounds and is 9 years old and has already gone after my puppy b/c he thought she was trying to take a bone out of his mouth. Since that incident, I've been trying my best to keep them separated as I am fearful he will get fed up with her and attack her. He has always been a
gentle, non-vicious dog and is okay with her as long as she doesn't try to play with him or get in his face. It's so hard keeping them separated at all times and just when I think things are going good, she starts getting playful and tries to nip his feet when he walks and he starts to growl so I immediately pick her up and tell him to be good. I just never thought I would have this problem with him, he grew up around my last yorkie who I put to sleep about 5 months ago and that yorkie was very very dominant and put the lab in his place. I'm a nervous wreck with this situation. Does anyone have this similar problem? If so, how are you handling it?
Thanks!

I have a golden retriever...
 

He is 10 years old. He is wonderful with any kids or dogs alike. You could do anything to him and he never snaps or shows any care. However when my maltese was about 6 months old, I gave them both a something to chew on. She wanted hers and his and pestered and pestered him. Finally he jumped up, barked as loud as he could and snapped at her and actually scraped her nose, we have only ever heard him bark twice in his whole life. I was very upset! My husband had to calm me down and said this: she was pestering him, it is his only way to tell her leave me alone, and you will probably not see her pestering him again when he has a treat. You know what, he was right. She learned right then and there. Dogs have their own language. It's just scary because he is so much bigger than her and could hurt her if he was inclined to.

It doesn't sound fair to let her bite his feet, I'm sure it hurts and you wouldn't let him bite her feet. Treating your little dog like a big dog can be really good advice. Maybe you could teach your yorkie the words back off or no bite. Shaking a can when she bites or squirting with water is usually a quick way to teach that a behavior is not aloud. Plus you wouldn't want this behavior to continue past puppyhood and have an ankle biter right?

I have a similar situation. We have an eight year old German Shepard mix who weighs about 65 pounds. She is the sweetest dog but just doesn't want anything to do with the yorkie. She tolerates him but does show her teeth and growl when he bothers her too much. I keep them apart which isn't too difficult because she goes up stairs when she has had enough and he doesn't like the stairs. I also have baby gates up in two rooms. I let him play with her for about fifteen minutes a day supervised. I really wish she would play with him more but I guess she is getting too old to put up with a puppy. I don't think she would ever attack him but would never leave them alone together. You never know. I also never let them have any food/bones together.
I would really like to get another yorkie but that isn't a possibility right now.

Dogs do have a way on how they communicate their own "pecking order". I feel with close supervision it is sometimes best to stand back and allow them to "doggie communicate" ... But I do stress the "close supervision"...

I have a HUGE dog, Daisy. Here are two pics. (older Yorkie Talk members I am sure have seen these pics before)

big dog
 

:Puppy: We have an 85 lb black lab too. My Yorkie is almost 8 mos and my lab is 11 years old and very sweet. In the beginning everytime I put Jackson (yorkie) down my big dog would try to play with him but because he is so big, playing became dangerous. This made me very nervous. I waited until Jackson was about 7 mos. and I would let them play in a supervised situation and things have gotten better. But even today, Jackson stole Tucker's bone and Tucker growled and that is a warning sign that next comes teeth! I doubt he would bite, in 11 years he has never bitten any/one/thing. I am more scared of him crushing Jackson! :animal-sm

Our 65 lb. Lab does great with the baby. Our 15 lb. Shih Tzu, however, does not really care for her!!!

I was very nervous at first that our Lab would think Gracie was nothing than a movable stuffed animal! But she's been very gentle with Gracie from day one, and they play together all the time.

Yup!
 

I own a male dogue de bordeaux who's a year old and a few weeks and weighs in at 136lbs. When I was searching for a yorkie, I was so hesitant to get such a small dog with Dozer, but they get along great. They even sleep together.

I have a 26 lb. sheperd mix and I just adopted a 50 lb. lab. I also used to have a 112 lb. lab who passed away last summer. Bouncer adores ALL of them and they all loved him. The 9 year old sheperd mix (Brady) is normally old and grumpy with people and kids, but he'll play all day long with Bounce. So whoever says big dogs can't live in households with little dogs is wrong. lol Bounce's best friend at work is a Great Dane and a Pit Bull. lol So he definately loves BIG dogs. :p

Gus Gus is so cool looking, what kind of coloring is that? Show more pics!

I have an 85 lb Boxer that absolutely adores my daughters puppy Mia, and Mia thinks he is the bomb too. He is so gentle with her, kinda like he knows she is a baby. Even still, I don't let them together unless I am closely watching. I truly don't think he would ever hurt her on purpose, it's just with his size compared to her 2 lbs, it would kinda be like us playing with an elephant, accidents could happen.

Kim or anyone ..I am also going to get a little guy.We have two other much bigger dogs. I wonder if they do well one the little guy is a puppy..but then after 8 months..could there be problems, when puppy is not so much the puppy any more?
I would love to hear all thoughts and experiences on this!

Thanks. He is a Biewer yorkie. After my yorkie passed away I started to look at yorkie puppies but could not seem to buy one. Hard to explain why-I may have started looking too soon. I even looked at other toy breeds but yorkies are just the best. When I found the Biewer it was perfect. Different enough looking to work for me. Although since joining this forum and seeing all the pictures of your little beauties I know I'll get another yorkie some day. I'll post some pictures.

I posted some pictures in the Photo Gallery. I think I am too much of a spaz to resize them and add them as attachments in the My Yorkie section. :o

Thanks for the advice
 

Thanks everyone for the advice. I will definately try the shaking can or squirting water at her when she is biting all of our feet, including our lab's feet. I know supervision is the key so I will keep up with that. Hopefully things will get better and she learns not to bother him so much.