How do I punish my chihuahua when she misbehaves?

Question

She's 11 months old and shes 3 lbs.

shes 11 months old and shes 3lbs; she does things like potty in the house, bark excessively when someone walks in the house, bites and scratches our older dog, and just wont learn from my training

Answer 1

People think that little dogs don't need obedience training.

They do.

Take a class. It's fun and you learn how to train your dog without driving both of you insane.

Positive reinforcement works best. Praise her for doing right, and ignore bad behavior.


Good luck

Answer 2

It's impossible to answer because you did not explain what the problems are. Never, hit, scold or use any physical correction or you will make the problem worse.

Chi's need to be trained carefully - not only due to their size, but because they look like puppies their entire lives, people tend to see bratty behavior as cute and are more accepting of it from them than they would be of an 80 pound Lab.

Training and supervision is the key to unwanted behaviors. It's the owners responsibility to learn how to properly train their dog so he becomes a happy, well socialized member of the family who knows the rules of the house.

Find a hands-on training program in your area and get started ASAP!!

Petsmart offers a pretty good beginners class for a reasonable price that will open your eyes to understanding how to get the positive behaviors you want.

Answer 3

The first and easiest thing to do to stop the biting is that whenever she does bite, you need to scream as if what she just did to you were life-threatening. I tried that with my puppy and it scares her and deters her from doing it. With the urinating in the house. You need to yell at her and promptly get her outside so she learns where going potty is ok. You also need to take her out very frequently like (like more than once per hour...) so that shes able to learn that going outside is where she is supposed to go and then praise her A LOT when she does go outside. She will eventually learn that inside is bad and outside is good. When she barks, you just need to scare her and tell her know. Yell out or something (but no hitting, hitting is bad). When she climbs on and scratches your older dog you need to understand that is is just playing. if it bothered the older dog he/she will put the puppy in her place...and that is ok because it is the natural order of things...just make sure he/she isn't being overly aggressive. If it were bothering the older dog too much he/she would leave the room and go somewhere to avoid the puppy. It just takes a lot of time and patience to get them to behave. But remember it is VITAL to spend time with her and play with her because this could well be her way of trying to get attention.

Answer 4

Then you need to get help from a pro. You answered your question yourself - if she doesn't seem to be learning from how you're teaching, then there's a piece of the puzzle missing. Group classes for puppies are not expensive, especially compared to the expense of needing to replace flooring and carped that's damaged by stains.
Be sure that the class you attend is positive and reward-based. It's been proven that hitting, yelling, and other punishments don't work - whereas when we humans learn to reward the good behaviors that they are already doing, dogs learn quickly!
Here are some sites to get you started:

http://www.clickersolutions.com/articles/#puppy

http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html

http://www.karenpryor.com/

Answer 5

Rather than thining of punishing the dog for misbehavior you need to think in terms of helping the dog understand what is good behavior. Dogs do not choice to do bad things they do not understand what is a better thing to do.
Keep your puppy inan enviroment that helps keep her from making bad choices. "Puppy proof" the room were she stays or have her say in a pen or crate whn you can not be sure what whe is doing.
Teach her good behavior:
Get a book, video, or take a class to teach your dog to do the basic obedience things like sit, down, walk on leash, and stay.
Then when the dog is doing samething that it shouldn't have it do something good.
(i.e.- if the puppy jumps up and somebodies leg tell the puppy to sit and praise the dog for doing what to was told and is good),

Answer 6

Coming from an expert, here's my advice:

When a dog "misbehaves", it is difficult for the animal to understand why. How they learn is by association. So, the best way is to associate wrongdoing with something. I highly detest violence, and it creates a fearful and unhealthy relationship. Use time-outs and neglect. When any dog sees that an action can lead to a lack of attention or loving affection, they learn quick! This also helps them associate love with goodness.

This is the best way to teach an animal, especially dogs.

Answer 7

A dog should be trained on how to eat, walk with you, not to bark, potty training and sleep on its place etc. You can teach anything to your puppy, dogs get trained easily with some good instructions. If you want some good training tips visit https://tr.im/J27jk

If properly trained, they should also understand whistle and gesture equivalents for all the relevant commands, e.g. short whistle or finger raised sit, long whistle or flat hand lay down, and so on.

It's important that they also get gestures and whistles as voice may not be sufficient over long distances and under certain circumstances.

Answer 8

Withdraw attention. I sometimes pick up a stuffed animal dog and give it attention instead of my dog. Boy does that make my little spoiled lap dog jealous!

Answer 9

Say no and distract her with something she is allowed to do. Also get her in a training class so both of you work better together.

Answer 10

I really do not recommend you punishing your dog especially since they are really smart dogs it will not do any good. I have one myself and why bother honestly

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