I suggest using your dogs intelligence to your advantage. In my experience there are a couple ways to deal with this. I find that sit stay can often take a couple weeks to learn. The fastest method can actully be made into a type of game for the yorkie. Now since the yorkie is a smaller dog and his nose is already practicaly at the floor I recommened sitting or kneeling when doing this. Alright, put your dog on a leash and collar, it's preferable to have a neck collar. Please try to avoid any type of restriant collars as those can be avoided. I ask for a regular neck collar over a halter due to quicker reaction time. Anyway. Have a nice amount of bitesized treats for your dog, make it something special, something they will want to work for.
Now Sit with your dog at the door you want to train him to not cross and give him a treat or two so he knows just how good the stuff in your hand is. Make sure he sees it. Now after his attention is focused on that food toss it across the doorway.
Now make sure your dog has line to make his own choices, more then likely he will walk towards the treat and try to eat it. As he walk toward that treatand approchs the threshold give him a little tug back as hes about to step over and outside, he should start to process this after a couple atempts stop and as soon as he looks at you, give him a treat.
Toss anouther treat across the threashold and repeat this process see if instead of going after that treat he instead will look to you. Do this a couple times until this occurs every time he shows no intrest in the treat across the doorstep and looks to you for approval give him a treat.
eventualy you will be able to throw a treat across and he will look to you to see if it.
This is a good way to condion them to watch you when you are going out, and instead of focusing on the otherside of the door they are focusing on you. |