My 4 year mature mannish chihuahua other seem so angry. i regard as he may be bipolar - what can i do 4 him?
he is not neutered, he is friendly to elderly people, like my parents, but he hate my kids. we've had him since he was 6 weeks old, i dont apprehend why he is so mean sometimes & so sweet other times. he doesnt know how to play without biting something every time - especially general public, little people, like my kids, they are 13 & 7. they try to play with him & love on him & stuff & he a short time ago growls to no end & ends up biting someone . . . I dont know what to do with him. hes part of the kith and kin, i would never get rid of him, he is my baby. is there anything i can do almost his hateful behavior?
get him neutered and that should settle his anger down a bit. enjoy your kids give him treats when he does something good. Also another trick is if he asks for food enjoy your kids put in 4 or 5 pieces and wait untill he looks a them then enjoy them put more in. keep doing that untill he doesnt want any more or untill the normall amount you would put in the dish is gone.
apt luck!
Chihuahuas are not recommended as pets for children, sorry. He feels frightened/threatened/scared or something by your kids. Teach the children that whether the dog growls, STOP DOING WHATEVER THEY ARE DOING. I hate to say it but he would probably be much happier with your parents. When he growls, he is adage, "Stop! I don't like this!" and when he is ignored, he bites. Maybe a Beagle would be better with your kids. Keep the Chihuahua for yourself one and only or ask your parents to take him (that's what I'd do).
you should take him to the doctor and see what's wrong.poor baby.it will be alright.
sorry i can only say that every chiuahua i have ever met have been like this. my neighbours have 3 of them and every time you look contained by their eyes they start trying to attack you. its horrible. as to why i have never really been keen on chiuahuas. they startle me cos they are too agro. i was once at the rspca and they had like 7 of them surrounded by one elclosure and all of them started trying to attack every single person that walked departed. so from what i can tell that is just here temperment.
Answers: For one thing, he was taken from his mother and littermates too infantile; a puppy learns important "life skills" from them. Apparently he didn't receive continued bite inhibition training after he did hand down the litter, either.
His behavior can also be explained by being treated like "a baby" -- resembling a human instead of a dog. Yes, a dog is like a member of the family, but remember it is a human-and-dog family unit. Small breeds often suffer from "small dog syndrome" because they are allowed to get away near behavior that large dogs would never get away near. If they aren't given proper leadership, they will take over as boss of the house -- much too much responsibility to put on a little dog.
"A Chihuahua who is pack viewpoint of it's humans may snap at children. This breed is not recommended for children, most people treat the Chihuahua differently than they would a large dog. Because of his size, this breed tend to be babied and things we humans clearly see as bad behavior for a large dog is looked over as cute near a small dog."
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/chihuahua.ht...
"Humans often give the dog mixed leadership signals, which throws the dog stale balance, confusing his psyche, causing many of the psychological/behavioral problems we see within dogs today. Mental tension and energy build up inwardly the dog, which lead to many of your common canine misbehaviors...aggression towards humans, snapping, biting, growling. You given name it-- we can, more likely than not, trace your problem back to the way you treat your dog. In some cases it starts to seem the dog is just nuts, or psycho, and there is nothing one can do in the region of it."
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/articles/hum...
Edit: No matter how "well-known" the breeder is, a *responsible* one will not let pups go until they are 8 weeks, even though they are "weined" quicker. In many places it is even illegal to let them stir sooner. Toy breeds often stay with the mother even longer. The AKC recommends it
http://www.akc.org/enewsletter/yourakc/2...
Dogs don't obtain bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is characterized by emotional excess and a need to manipulate the emotion of others. Neutering the dog will indeed make him much less frustrated and eliminate testosterone-driven behavior but otherwise, unless the dog is suffering from a true medical condition, the finger points squarely at the humans surrounded by the dog's life...
He is not your baby at all, he is a dog and should be treated as one.
The point this little tyrant is behaving the way is he is because he hasn't been trained otherwise.It's get nothing to do with bipolar. He thinks he runs the show and it sounds approaching he does. He has your family very economically trained.
You need to get a good trainer/behavourist within for this dog. This breed does tend to have a suspect temperament, especially those that are not from a registered, ethical breeders. Good breeders breed for temperament. Pet stores, byb's and puppy mills are all nearly money.
Humans are bipolar not dogs. You might want to watch "It's me or the dog".
