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03-10-2013, 02:24 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Furville, CA
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| At Home Prize-training at home I'm so excited! I knew I wanted to train my little munchkin and was so inspired by watching little Misa Minnie in the video section. Last evening I started with 4 simple commands. Look, sit, down and wait/stay. Lil munchkin did pretty well getting sit, wait was a challenge as the treats were so tasty. Look, I'm still not sure how to get that one down and need to research more videos to make sure I'm doing it well. Down, I didn't want to break em so I nudge the front paws forward slightly while sliding the body back into the down position. We worked for about 15 min. This afternoon we had our 2nd session. Sit was a snap, wait wasn't so difficult, look not too bad, down came by the last two bites! Lil munchkin got the command DOWN! It's so thrilling to feel that your pet understands you... The next commands that I want to work on are come, roll over, and jump. Last edited by furrybaby; 03-10-2013 at 02:25 PM. |
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03-10-2013, 02:31 PM | #3 |
♡Huey's Human♡ Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Ringgold, Ga
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| Those videos are incredible, aren't they? So, as you get your munchkin trained, lets see some of those, too! As I am considering trying something like that with Huey, I noticed he is rolling in a dead bug he brought in...sigh...hopeless...
__________________ Huey's mom, Marilyn :When a day starts & ends with puppy kisses, I can handle anything that comes in between! |
03-10-2013, 02:32 PM | #4 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Good work. Keep it up and slowly she will learn to listen to and behave you overall far better than a dog untrained in obedience. It can totally reshape a dog's persona from a wild little puppy that jumps on everything, bolts out the door, grabs up everything that hits the floor and chews on everything to one day being a happy, well-behaved pet with plenty of spunk and drive left for having fun. So many people think training a dog takes away its fun personality - its love of life. Nothing is further from the truth if you train correctly, keep it fun, with only positive reinforcement and no discipline for getting it wrong. And the dog learns that pleasing you in behavior makes you happy and he gets only good from that so they try even harder to do what you ask. It's a wonderful thing to bring a pet along to that point and beyond. Often they do what you want before you can even think of it, the little smarties.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
03-10-2013, 03:27 PM | #5 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Michigan USA
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| Someone recently said to me "There is no such thing as a bad good dog!" Ain't it true? They live to please you and if you show them lots of love for good things, they show you good things |
03-10-2013, 04:10 PM | #6 |
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| Like!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
03-10-2013, 04:20 PM | #7 | |
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03-21-2013, 01:58 PM | #8 |
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| At what age did you start training your yorkie? Thanks |
03-27-2013, 09:54 PM | #9 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Furville, CA
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| I started at 18 weeks but others start sooner...11-12 weeks. It was a little bit of a challenge as I'm spoon feeding; my furrybaby eats raw food that I grind up as I don't want any bones to accidentally get caught or scratch the inners. So far we've learned the following tricks: sit down stay look turn around turn the other way jump over obstacle figure 8 (that took a while) presently working on "shake my hand" right paw A lot of fun! Last edited by furrybaby; 03-27-2013 at 09:57 PM. |
03-28-2013, 01:29 AM | #10 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: ada mn usa
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| Guys I have to say I have been a poor yorkie owner when it comes to training. Over all mine have been good dogs, come when called, do not bark much, people enjoy being around them as they aren't jumpers or biters etc...Lola I taught one thing...sit...Ruby I am starting way late and we are working on sit. But are there videos out there that teach these other commands?? How I've taught other commands with a big dog (70-100 lb) doesn't seem ok for a tiny yorkie...Help!?!?!?!?! Suggestions....I've read so much what you guys say about a dog that has jobs and healthy minds etc I want ruby and Rosie to be at their healthiest! Plus I can only imagine that it would strengthen our bonds. Also, is there a diff approach to training an older dog?
__________________ Bobbi and her two favorite girls...Ruby-Sioux and Rosie Too . We you Lola Marlene Bubbles |
04-02-2013, 05:42 PM | #11 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Furville, CA
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| I'm so sorry, I thought someone had responded to your questions but obviously not! :-S YES! There are lots of training videos on youtube. Just punch in what you'd like to teach and many videos will show up for free! Also, yes, it's true that you cannot train a large and small breed dog the same. You can yell a command at a large breed dog but a small breed will probably not respond the way you hoped for and actually pee out of submission to you in hopes to please you, no kidding. Small breed training is all about positive reinforcement. This evening, my little one got on the floor and in response to this action, my yorkie wouldn't stop barking at her. Wouldn't snap out of it for a sharp, "no!" or clapping my hands. So I grabbed the closest crinkling item near me, a plastic egg carton and began squishing it so it made noise...furrybaby STOPPED! It was a matter of finding something that would snap em out of the unwanted behavior. Make training fun and short. 5 min max a day or up to 3 times a day if you use your feeding/treat times for training. That's what I do. Only one trick at a time till they have it down then move on to the next thing you'd like them to learn. Depending on the trick, it takes mine 2-4 days to get a new one down. So fun when they do!!! Also, you don't have to reward for a trick they already have down...unless you want to on occasion but it's not necessary. |
04-02-2013, 05:44 PM | #12 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: ada mn usa
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| Thanks so much!!! ill be youtubing!!!
__________________ Bobbi and her two favorite girls...Ruby-Sioux and Rosie Too . We you Lola Marlene Bubbles |
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