Update on Matilda ( Tilly)
She has gain almost 3 Lb from the day I got her and keep growing like a weed, she went last weekend with me to KC to see Camille dance and to be with her cousins Scarlett and Reacee, she had a lot a fun, she even hit the dance floor and show some really cool moves, a future Free Styler in the making. She is learning the hand signals fast , in a week she already learn to come and the signal for NO, she took on the porch stairs this evening and now I have to chase her all over the fence yard. She wakes up really easy with my hand in her shoulder too, and she always wakes up happy and ready to go. The only problem that I really have with her is that she cry and carry on when is time to feed her, if somebody hear her will say that I am killing her, I really don’t have idea how to correct this behavior , if some body have an idea please let me know. Tilly is and is going to be a joy in my life, we have a lot of things to learn together and a lot of barriers that we have to conquer, but beside of having each other we have Camille and her other sisters to help. Thank you everybody for been there for us.  |
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Sounds like Tilly is settling in nicely.  Some people think that deaf dogs are mute.......uh.......not so much. Oscar is LOUD in everything he does, from drinking water, to barking. I taught Oscar the "quiet" command (a pointer finger to my lips, like "shhhh"). But in order to teach him "quiet", I had to teach him "speak" first. (Our "speak" command is like a duck bill quacking. With straight fingers, I take my four fingertips and bring them to the thumb tip.) When Oscar was barking, I would do the "speak" command over and over and reward with a "good boy" sign and a treat. He soon learned that my hand signal meant that he should bark. Once we had that down, and I could get him to bark out of the blue by doing the sign, I started with "quiet". When he was barking, I would go by him, and when he stopped, I would immediately do the "quiet" command and reward. It didn't take him long to understand that command either. I see the problem you are facing with the food. If you give Tilly the food while she is acting nutty, it can be perceived as a reward for the nutty behavior. And lets face it. Puppies have a very tiny brain. Maybe try telling her "no" and putting the food away if she acts up, and try to put it down again in a few minutes when she is calm. You might have to do it ten times before you can feed her, but hopefully she will figure out that it is much easier to get the food when she is calm.Laurie and Oscar |
| Usually if my dogs are doing something I don't like I redirect the behaviour by getting them to do something else that I find more acceptable. The problem with barking is that Tilly can do the something else AND bark.  Maybe if she's really concentrating on the other behaviour she will forget to bark. Rastus was always whining and getting underfoot when I was getting his meals ready so I taught him "go to your bed". It's on the other side of the room from the pantry.  He doesn't really like doing it because the island bar blocks his view of any dropped morsels  and some days he still grumbles at me. But he knows as soon as he whines or barks or leaves his bed I stop what I'm doing and cross my arms on my chest until he's quiet and sitting on his bed. Then I start serving his meal again. It was annoying at first because it took a lot longer to feed them, what with all the stopping. But it's worth it now because I don't have two big dogs both jostling me for food. Maybe Tilly could learn go to your bed and sit or some other behaviour that would distract her from yelling at you about how hungry she is and what a mean Mom you are for waiting so long to feed her the next meal. PS I'm so glad that the Vet gave Tilly a clean bill of health. |
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