Grab and run!
 

My latest problem is when Penny gets a hold of something she is not suppose to have, she runs from you. There is no way I can catch her, she's tooooooo fast! Plus I know its not a good thing to do. She will come to you most of the time, but not when she has something naughty. I'm afraid she will swallow something or eat something bad. I won't use treats to lure her because thats rewarding her. I have to use a toy or something she might want insteed. How should this be handled correctly.

Thanks for any help :confused:

Oh my god! Chewy does this too and he runs 100 mph. I don't have any concrete advice other than that I am teaching the COME command with much severity! Hopefully he will listen the next time he runs off with something. Good Luck

Biddy does this too - she jets under the bed (she's a genious). So I get on my hands and knees and try to reach under for her. But I can't reach so I run around to the other side...so SHE runs to the other side of the bed. I wind up running around the bed abour 100 times before I am completely exhausted & let her have whatever it is that she isn't supposed to have (usually socks)...

Yes she does this too, so then I know I won't get her, so I try to stear her away from the bedrooms. :(

The only way I have found to get him to come or drop something,,is I go get a treat,,, and get down on the floor,,, and he will always drop whatever for a treat,,,, But I better get the "whatever" quick cause he'll get the treat them grab the whatever!!
I know its like rewarding BAD behaviour BUT,,, it works... he graduates from Obedience school.. tonight,,,and still WONT come!! :mad:

I think they are just trying to make us feel ridiculous!! My boyfriend's mother lives downstairs from us. She called me one night to make sure everything was alright because she knew my boyfriend wasn't home & she heard all kinds of running around & jumping coming from my apartment! I was so embarrassed explaining to her that Biddy had stolen my bra! Hey- that thing cost like $40 - I wasn't about to let her have it!!!

Oh I know it,,, the other day I was chasing him around cause he had an "UNOPENED" tampon and was running around with that,, Imagine that, if ya have company!! :eek:

Hahahaaaa!! I do that too, exactly the way you do, too funny! Usually though Schatzie has a bug in her mouth not socks. :D

LOL! :lol tears

Oh no!!! I don't know what I'd do!! He'd be on punishment for a VERY long time in my house!!!

lol gosh do they love undies...guess its the 'bad boy' mentality LOL

*sorry i failed to notice biddy is a girl oh well i guess it's the same for both genders

LOL - I guess she has the "Bad tomboy" mentality!!

BTW - where in MA are you?? I live in Dorchester, I grew up in South Boston - I hardly ever see New Englanders on here!!

A few weeks ago I was cooking dinner and dropped a small potato. Sophie grapped it and ran off with it. I ran after but she kept eluding me. So...I yelled "SIT" and she skidded to a stop and I caught up with her. It was so funny to watch!

Same thing here, Jack is like a bullet especially with my Husband's underwear, or a dryer sheet, which for some reason he loves to pull out of the dryer while I am unloading and folding. The other morning he took off with one of my slippers, and I just yelled STOP, I couldn't believe what I saw, he actually brought it back to me. Must have been a fluke. LOL

So relieved...
 

So happy to hear that his happens to other folks!!

Mojito has his moments but the worst is definitely the "i'm grabbing what i shouldn't have and running off with it..."

It usually ends up with me saying "SIT!" in a really low voice (after "come", "drop it", or "stay" don't work) and he usually has a sock or a
piece of paper or, yes, a pair of panties or boxers in his mouth.

He also loves slippers and flip-flops! You haven't laughed until you've seen a 4 pound pup running up and down the hall, trying to thrash a size eleven man's flip-flop!! (It's bigger than him!!)

OH - and let's not forget toilet paper. We just moved home to NYC after spending almost five years in San Francisco and I was so proud of my bathroom hardware... until Mojito discovered the toilet paper dispenser. I swear, we went through about three rolls of tp before we realized that we needed to relocate the dispenser. So bummed... but it was SO cute!

Mojito & Irmi

Gucci does this also. At the beginning I used to run after her. But I learned not to do that because she saw it like a game. SO what i did was getting something she likes and like trade her. Did that for a while. Then started saying the word "drop it", until she start getting the hang off it. Now i say drop it and she 90% does it. SOmetimes she wont and then I have to trick her and grab her and say drop it and take it away. Yorkies are very smart and so funny. It is so funny how they love socks and undies, huh. :rolleyes:

Memphis is famous for this sort of thing. Unopened tampon??? hmf, try a used one wrapped in TP when company was over. I was not a happy camper.


But anyway, I have found that the easiest way to get him to stop running from me was to lay down on the floor face up. Just lay there. And if they dont see you lay down, move to where they can see you. Curiosity is going to get the best of them, Then they can not fight the urge to run up and kiss you and play king/queen of the mountain on you.

OMG I would have been mortified!!! My dog would have lost ALL bathroom priveleges after that go around... :)

[QUOTE=ReconsMomma]Memphis is famous for this sort of thing. Unopened tampon??? hmf, try a used one wrapped in TP when company was over. I was not a happy camper.


YIKES!!!!!!!! I would have crawled under the nearest.....well anything. They are faster though when you are trying to get something back from them.

luckily tino's run and grab is usually a pair of shoes and even at 4lbs, he cant get very far, very fast, so I usually win that one! He did have one of my diamond earrings that fell off my vanity and it was gone for a few days. All of a sudden it just turned up in one of his beds in the living room! Thank heavens!

I can tollerate the grab and run. On the other hand if Lacijo is out of the bedroom she'll buckle up and try to go toilet anywhere on the floor. Try catching one when she knows she's supposed to go to the laundry room and use the paper.

Oh, no, she runs for the bedroom, sometimes leaving little poops behind her, and I find out she didn't go in the bedroom because the door is shut. But when I reach her and she's crowded up against the door like, like, like a scared little dog, and I reach for the door handle, she flies back up the hall like if I caught her I was going to beat her to death! When I open the door she flies back past me and runs right to daddy's side of the bed and tries to get him to pick her up.

All, I did was holler "Laci, NO!", jump up and chase her thru the house, open the door for her and she's acting like I'm going to kill her. The worst I have ever done her was to pick her up, scolding her all the way, take her in the laundryroom, or bathroom, put her on the paper, pick up a corner of the paper, shake it gently and say "On the paper Laci, on the paper!"

The breeder used newspaper on her floor and when I brought Lacijo and Mr. Big home they went there naturally. Somebody is sneaking around and using my bedroom floor as their toilet. If it was bigger I'd think it was Lady. Mr. Big's not shy, he'll use the paper while I'm using the toilet. He's the only one. If someone needs the paper while I'm in there, I find it in the floor when I come out. Pirogue on the other hand is a gentleman, he waits until I come out. Again, he's the only one. Hmmm, just realized, the boys are good and the girls are nasty. Hmmmm.