Hi Tricia, If you keep having problems, you might really want to think about an xpen and a dog door, to help give your chi a break for chunks of time, and your toddler an opportunity to think about other things like toys, playing with you and siblings etc. Then when your chi is out have positive time, and work with older siblings, and your toddler too for an hour or so, then have a block of time in the xpen again. That way your puppy can have positive experiences and not feel harassed. Not to make your chi feel punished or anything, but just so she can rest, and feel safe. It's also nice so you can relax and not have to watch to be sure your toddler isn't harrasing your dog for half an hour too. I really think it's a great thing to have around when you have a toddler and a tiny dog who could get hurt by your toddler, or who could hurt your toddler if your toddler hurts it or scares it too much. Now that my son is 2 1/2 he's really understanding more about being gentle. Since he's grown up with them, they were never a novelty, so he's never been that interested in bugging them all of the time (just in spurts, like when he was cruzing - oh look I can reach them on the couch now!), or if we're doing tricks suddenly they are more interesting (usually if I try to do tricks when he's awake, I have to quit and put the pooches in their xpen because it gets Karsen too riled up ... and then wait until he's calmed down to let the dogs out again - it makes him chase them - the only thing that does - arrhhh). But now he's learned that Elsa is bigger and he can pet her "x" hard and it is gentle enough to be nice, but Bessie is tiny so he needs to pet her really soft. He's quit with the hard petting that I had to remind him to pet nice about. He does have our big, fat cat to lay on and hug - which he can't do with the dogs, so that is good. Shell
On 6/19/07, Tricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am deffinately seeing the Chi have problems with my toddler. Last night she did lung forward when my daughter climbed up on me. I just put her down and shed tried to jump back into my lap but I had my son take her. This is going to be hard. I should of not made her so attached to me. I wasn't thinking. I should of had her bond with my older son first. Tricia
