'Bout to send this boy packing!!!

[tammy8833]

i have loved and do love remmie. i have put a lot of effort in to my dogs. i have designated the upstairs as there area, the crates are up their, toys, food, beds, etc.. i have work with them on training but i will admit i am better training larger dogs then little. i have always wanted yorkies and have always wanted to breed one day. give me a rott i'll have him trained in a matter of days, give me a yorkie.. it takes a lot more. i try to keep them on schedules, and i have given more attention to remmie because for some reason he has bad habits. i would really like to know where these habits orginated from. but i dont know what else to do with remmie but if i do rehome he is just going to have the same problems so where else

[Gingergirlsmom]

Originally Posted by JACKSON'S MOMMY

Tammy
I know that right now you are really upset with what Remmie has done and you came here looking for some comfort and understanding. From what I have read everyone is trying to do that without being hard on you. Sometime stuff is hard to hear when your angry and hurt.
Yes the Dog Whisperer is a TV show and I am positive there is more to it in real time then we see in a 20 minute segment. He does do follow up and a whole lot more that we don't see. Some time the simplist solutions don't take ALL DAY and $300 to solve. It is about having a open mind. I do believe his techniques work if you try, what else do you have to lose at this point? Besides rehoming a companion you love???You however have stated you don't have the money for a trainer there for we are trying to give you help that is free. You don't seem to be listening and maybe that because your hand is throbbing and your mad at Remmie.
Sit back and calm down (hell have a drink! ) and regroup.

Great advice... Tammy, I do believe everyone is trying to help. I guess the question on my mind is what do YOU want to do? Do you want to fix the problem (which CAN be done) or do you want to rehome him (which can ALSO be done). Neither choice is wrong. Perhaps when we understand better what information you are looking for we can help. I only suggested the rescue because I got the impression you WANTED to rehome him. Others are suggesting training methods because (I believe) they have the impression you want to stop the aggression.

You've been here long enough to know that deep down most of us just want to help.

[JeanieK]

Originally Posted by peanut

Do you have kids,they are just like them, they are never the same, All of mine are different some are harder or stronger will than the others, you just got to keep on him...

Yes some are laid back and easy to get slong with and others will challenge every thing you say. I raised 6. No two were alike.

[JACKSON'S MOMMY]

Oh yeah, what did you do after he bit you. Did you put him on his back until he surrendered and was submission?

[chachi]

Food aggression doesnt mean they are an aggressive dog. He is not submissive. We had a problem one time with Chachi doing that. He got a chicken bone and went under a little couch we have with it. When I went to take it away Chachi sstarted lunging at me. My Husband tried to take it away and he did the same thing. My Husband lifted up the couch grabbed him and put him on his back in a submissive positon and told him no. He has never did it again. When they do it you have to do something that tells them you wont tolerate it

[peanut]

Originally Posted by tammy8833

i have loved and do love remmie. i have put a lot of effort in to my dogs. i have designated the upstairs as there area, the crates are up their, toys, food, beds, etc.. i have work with them on training but i will admit i am better training larger dogs then little. i have always wanted yorkies and have always wanted to breed one day. give me a rott i'll have him trained in a matter of days, give me a yorkie.. it takes a lot more. i try to keep them on schedules, and i have given more attention to remmie because for some reason he has bad habits. i would really like to know where these habits orginated from. but i dont know what else to do with remmie but if i do rehome he is just going to have the same problems so where else

I am not trying to fight with you but that isn't true Mac I got from a lady on here living close to me, she said he would pee and poop in the house, I had him in my house 15 minutes and he was using pee pads, and going outside, I have never had a problem with him until Lexie went into heat, which was my fault because I scheduled his surgery after she went into heat...she was early...but you can go back and read her post, she couldn't keep him because of this...well he is fine now....

[Gingergirlsmom]

Originally Posted by peanut

I am not trying to fight with you but that isn't true Mac I got from a lady on here living close to me, she said he would pee and poop in the house, I had him in my house 15 minutes and he was using pee pads, and going outside, I have never had a problem with him until Lexie went into heat, which was my fault because I scheduled his surgery after she went into heat...she was early...but you can go back and read her post, she couldn't keep him because of this...well he is fine now....

This is true. A friend of mine adopted a little mix from a family who gave her up because she had bitten each and every member of the family at least once. This family had two other dogs and NO problem, so who knows what the group dynamic was.

Anyway, my friends never been bitten and she's had her for nearly a year now. You just never know.

[tammy8833]

i dont believe that about the people being broke IF the other dogs are well behaved. i do realize that each dog is different.

i got remmie from a lady about an hour from me. i went to see one dogs and came home with him. she had 4 puppies there. he was my first real yorkie, at least that is what his papers say. so i joined here, then learned about brokers and im pretty sure thats what the lady was the orginally had him. because the breeder lives in sc or nc

i am undecided about what to do with remmi i should have not posted when i was angry because i got feedback that i should have expected i do understand that most are trying to be helpful. but they also dont know that i have worked with remmie since i had him as a pup. i am very frustrated with is behavior. i would get him fixed if i had the chance right now. but i dont have extra cash right now we are recovering from christmas. yes i know what you are thinking wow why did she get another dog, when she cant fix her male. well first he was free, second all the vaccines were done, 3rd it was the exact dog my husband wanted and truefully i felt bad that my husband didnt have a dog of his own yet he bought me all the dogs i wanted. he told me i could keep remie and we would make it work with the county, his friend would get him licensed in the county under his name. but i didnrt feel comfortable with that so i deceided to find him a home and at my uncles house he would be a only dog so i thought that worked perfect and they were going to get him neurted. he was picked up thursday at 8pm and my uncled called at 10 this morning

[tammy8833]

peanut what did you do differently in 15 minues that mac's former owner didnt

[peanut]

Its your attitude, if he knows he can get away with it he will...

[chachi]

Originally Posted by peanut

Its your attitude, if he knows he can get away with it he will...

That is so true

[MyTrixie143]

At his age, neutering may or may not help him. But I would still have him neutered for health reasons.

Is this aggression only towards food or is it towards of all his possessions or can you tell me when he does it???

[tammy8833]

ok making him submit on his back while he is doing the bad bahavior sounds good,

but i did take the food away and when he bit me i poped him on the buttom harder enough for him to know better but not hurt him. and that should show some for of domanice

[JACKSON'S MOMMY]

Well since you don't think its you then rehome him to somene else. If it is Remmie then if may be something genetic in his temperment especially if you think you got him from a broker and never say the parents. Who knows
IMO I think you should rehome him before you really start resenting him for his behavior, and the fact that you have had to go more out of you way for him then any other dog you have, because if you reread you postings if sound like you alread do.

[tammy8833]

my attitude is the same, i either spray bottle them when wrong or pop them a little on the hiney.

he only shows agression around trash and sometimes food with other dogs around