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Q & A / Re: New chin owner and having a problem with it.

« on: April 19, 2010, 12:51:28 PM »

Well so far we have tried the time out thing and its not really working to well. Whenever he goes back into he same spots and tryingsto chew we pick him up and put him back into his cage for awhile and ignore him. Its funny though b/c we know when he wants out b/c he will chew on the cage gates. We ended up just putting up more cardboard around and its somewhat working but really annoying. We will be putting him in the bathroom but am its under construction so there's a lot of exposed stuff that he can eat and chew on that is most likely toxic to him. As for the humping thing he still tries to when hes mad at us b/c we moved him when he was chewing on something. Now we just pick him up and say no to show who is the dominate one.
Its been a real challenge nothing like our dog who was much easier to handle.

as for play time, how long is recommend for them 20-30minutes?

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Q & A / Re: New chin owner and having a problem with it.

« on: April 16, 2010, 08:28:15 PM »

Ok well thats good to know at least it seems hes happy and likes us. He hasnt really shown any hostilities towards us like barking or showing his teeth to us. But on the humping thing, is there anyway I can make him stop doing it, if not, what should I do when he does it? I usually just push him away but he comes back for seconds half the time lol. Is there any way to enforce corrective behavior?

How do you train your chins? Every time we say no or bad and pick him up or push him away he just goes right back to what he was doing ie chewing on our baseboards or table or w/e and hes kinda destroying our kitchen

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Q & A / New chin owner and having a problem with it.

« on: April 16, 2010, 01:43:46 AM »

Hi there, my gf and I took in and chin from her friend that could not care for it anymore. Its roughly two years old and was bought from a pet store. So we setup a place for it to run around in he kitchen and put cardboard up all along our base boards and stuff so he wont chew on them (found out the hard way). So things seem to be ok he doesn't seem to get mad at us or fear us and if anything likes us since we let it out for an hour or two jsut to run around. Now the problem we are having is more with me and not so much with my gf with him.
I dont know what he is thinking but he will be hopping around making little chirping noises that sound like hes happy and stuff but when I have to discipline him (ie move him or grab him b/c hes doing something bad) he starts to make a deeper chirping sound and starts wagging his tail back and forth and then try's to "hump" my hand or foot/ankle. Its really annoying and when he does that I usually push him away father fast and he comes running back to keep going until I really push him away hard, then he stops.

So why is he doing this? He trys to "mount" my hand or feet all the time. Other then that he has been pretty good with bonding with us, he nibbles us here and there and loves running around making little sounds, its rather cute.