| Stubborn Yorkie? | | | | To Establish Your Dominance: |
| Yorkie Doesn't Respond To Her Name? | | | | 1. Always be the first to leave and enter your house |
| Just Stepped In Another Puddle Or Something Even | | | | before your Yorkie |
| Worse In Your Home? | | | | 2. Be the first to eat your meal and let your puppy |
| Yorkie Got You Running Around In Circles? Read On... | | | | know it. |
| Yorkie puppy training starts with the one common | | | | 3. Do not allow your Yorkie puppy to sleep in your bed |
| mistake Yorkie owners make the most often. That | | | | or sit in your chair and be at a level higher than you. |
| common mistake is 'giving your Yorkie attention at the | | | | 4. If you happen to walk past and your Yorkie is laying |
| wrong time'. Let me give you an example. | | | | in your way always move the puppy and never walk |
| Say your Yorkie is jumping up and down your leg, you | | | | around her. |
| take your little puppy off your leg and put her on the | | | | 5. If your Yorkie potties in your home by accident, |
| ground. As you do this you say 'her name and say no | | | | never clean it up in front of her. |
| bad puppy'. | | | | These steps are just some of the fundamentals to |
| What does your Yorkie actually hear? Your Yorkie | | | | establish dominance. This is not cruel or unkind, in fact |
| hears something very different. Your puppy hears | | | | your Yorkie will appreciate. Your Yorkie wants to |
| 'when I jump up and down my owners leg, guess | | | | know what is expected of her. |
| what, I get attention, I love attention I think I should jump | | | | This type of Yorkie puppy training relies on positive |
| up and down legs more often'. Hence the cycle starts | | | | re-enforcement i.e. giving praise when your Yorkie |
| and continues on. | | | | does the behaviour you are happy with. You do not |
| Yorkie puppies rely on their instincts and naturally have | | | | need to scold or punish your puppy, ever. |
| something called 'pack mentality'. As a fundamental | | | | Once you understand the thought process and know |
| part of your Yorkie puppy training you need to | | | | and understand why your Yorkie puppy is doing whats |
| establish yourself as the 'Alpha Dog' of the house. This | | | | shes doing you will be able to make fast changes to |
| is absolutely critical, other wise your Yorkie puppy will | | | | her behaviour. |
| never listen to anything else you teach her. | | | | |