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01-20-2012, 07:16 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Malvern, PA
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| How do you get your new puppy to allow you to pick him up? We have a new baby! Cody is adorable and we love him so much. We have only had him four weeks. We had another dear Yorkie Charlie for 14 years!! Thought I could never have another but before long I realized I could not live without one!! So now we have Cody. When I go to pick him up he runs around like crazy, How do you get him to relax and allow me to pick him up. So basic but he is just so playful! Any advice? Charlie used to do this too, so I want to get Cody used to it right away as a puppy. |
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01-20-2012, 09:38 PM | #2 |
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| I had a problem picking mine up too when I got him at 12 months. I think it was a completely different issue. Yours is just happy and playful, and mine was afraid of me. The solution might be he same, wait it out. Wait for the puppy crazies fade, but enjoy it, I hear it's fun. I had to wait until I got my babies trust, and now he's the most loving cuddle bug.
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05-19-2012, 03:17 PM | #3 |
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| Mine does that too...she is 8 months old. I feel she thinks it is a game!
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05-19-2012, 03:25 PM | #4 |
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| He will get over that. If you can get him to learn and sit . It will get easier. If I want to pick Luci up now I tell her to sit. Works for me. Aren't they just amazing? Gotta Love a Yorkie. |
05-19-2012, 03:26 PM | #5 | |
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You may want to give him a treat every time you call him and pick him up, to accelerate the process....I think these babies all do this...everyone I have ever had, does this....not running away in fear, butdipping, ducking, diving, running in circles, spinning wildley, tail going 100 mph, etc...It is the "happy puppy hebbie jeebies" and I adore it! | |
05-19-2012, 07:52 PM | #6 |
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| This drives me crazy...sadly, I never mastered it with my little girls! They both do this to me, I blame Miss Mini for teaching Miss Mia..My big dogs long ago would sit and stay until i told them, NO MATTER HOW LONG....funny how these little ones get away with so much!!!
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05-19-2012, 08:13 PM | #7 | |
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That's it! Dipping, ducking, diving, running in circles...Catch me if you can! I love it! However, they know the command Wait, I use that and then tell them Up when I want to pick them up. If you can teach them the Wait command, it will come in handy for more than just waiting.
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12-11-2012, 10:04 AM | #9 |
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| Wow..I'm so happy to hear so many others are having this problem. I thought it was just me. Whenever I reach for Wallee he does the running away stuff too. Most of my friends have other breeds of dogs so when they see his reaction I am sure they think I am "mean" to him..lol..on the contrary. I had him at puppy class and they taught us to call them and reach for them as we handed them a treat. It worked great at the class but now, if I reach with the other hand that the treat is not in, he backs up and runs too. I sure hope that someday this behaviour will stop. Trying to get him ready to go out for a walk can be a half hour process as I have to be able to "catch and pick him up" to put on his harness and coat. |
12-11-2012, 10:20 AM | #11 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2012 Location: Loveland, Colorado
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| Emy has done this from day one....everytime I want to go outside with her and have to put her harness on, I sit on the floor with the harness and she just barks at me, but if I get up and get a little treat, then sit back down with the harness between my legs, she comes to get the treat and I gently turn her around and put her feet into her harness. Unfortunately, she hasn't grown out of the treat routine, I'm tired of having to get a treat everytime she decides she want to go outside, but thats the only way I can get her coat and harness on..! when she is in her gated area in the entryway, and I want to get her out and bring her with me to the kitchen I lean over the x-pen to pick her and and she backs up ....everytime, and barks and won't let me just lean over to pick her up...so I have to put my legs over the x-pen everytime to pick her up....it does get exhausting...but I love her so much, I won't leave her alone in the house....only for about an hour to go to grocery store in her crate...xmas, hubby is going to daughters house alone, I'm not going to leave her alone for hours and hours on xmas...don't want to take her, as his daughter has a dog, don't know what would happen, don't want to chance it this year. maybe next year when Emy has matured a little, right now she is all puppy... |
12-14-2012, 05:50 AM | #12 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | You can use the treat. Let her smell it but do not give it to her. Then the next time give her the treat. Then do it every third tome. You will start to teach her she gets a treat but she will not know when.
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12-14-2012, 08:30 AM | #13 |
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| Morgan does that also/ I put him in a sit and stay. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. He thinks it is a game |
12-15-2012, 05:45 PM | #14 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Gansevoort, New York
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| my oliver is over 3yrs old & still can't pick him up unless on his terms, when i sit on the couch he is comfortable on my shoulders & when he gets overwhelmed like @ the holidays when a lot of people are around, i twirl my finger & he spins in a circle & thats my cue that he wants me to pick him up. i think it's a yorkie thing. good luck & so glas u got another they are such a great breed! merry christmas |
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