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blahblah · 04-11-2009, 11:54 AM

Okay, i had a toy poodle that i lost last week

and looking at other breeds my wife and i decide on a yorkie

well it didn't take long to see that this dog is 100 times more energetic than my poodle ever was and chews on anything she can get her mouth on. Now with my toy poodle we never had a problem with her chewing on anything but the toys we gave her to chew on and picked up going to potty outside very quickly when i got tired of cleaning up pee and poop and dedicated myself to take her out every couple of hours even at night i set the alarm. The only thing my poodle hated so bad that we could do nothing with her was hair trimming. So we had to take her to groomers.

So i can tell that my new baby won't be so forgiving and will take full advantage if were not the one's in control. So i'm confused on how to handle her, i wanna spoil her rotten, pick her up and give all kinda of kisses and loving, but i read they will think their the alpha cuz the alpha is the one that gets all the love and attention. So i've been picking her up and give kisses and love just spread out and i keep it short and sit her back down on the ground to play. Also we never trained our poodle with treats, she would stand at the front door and make noises when she needed to go out and potty, i trained her to sit but that was all the training i did, well besides playing fetch which she instantly loved and always brought the ball back to me where this little yorkie baby tries to run away and chew on it LOL.

I've started with calling her name and giving a treat with praise when she looks at me, and telling her to come when she is far away. So now she will look and run to me for her treat LOL oh yea it's been rainy and cold so i hadn't been taking her out as i planned to potty, but she has been doing so well on using the pads in her playpen we keep her in, that i stuck a pad where she always runs and pee's when playing in the living room. So now after peeing on the pad she looks up wanting her treat! its too cute. So my main concern is can you spoil yorkies to where they will try to be alpha? Or does this really on happen if you don't also train them what is right or wrong with treats?

any advice or place to find advice would be helpful. cuz i can see just by how energetic and bold she is, that this breed will easily train the owner instead of the owner training them, and i don't want that to happen.

04-11-2009, 11:54 AM	#1
blahblah Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Tn Posts: 29	Some newb questions Okay, i had a toy poodle that i lost last week and looking at other breeds my wife and i decide on a yorkie well it didn't take long to see that this dog is 100 times more energetic than my poodle ever was and chews on anything she can get her mouth on. Now with my toy poodle we never had a problem with her chewing on anything but the toys we gave her to chew on and picked up going to potty outside very quickly when i got tired of cleaning up pee and poop and dedicated myself to take her out every couple of hours even at night i set the alarm. The only thing my poodle hated so bad that we could do nothing with her was hair trimming. So we had to take her to groomers. So i can tell that my new baby won't be so forgiving and will take full advantage if were not the one's in control. So i'm confused on how to handle her, i wanna spoil her rotten, pick her up and give all kinda of kisses and loving, but i read they will think their the alpha cuz the alpha is the one that gets all the love and attention. So i've been picking her up and give kisses and love just spread out and i keep it short and sit her back down on the ground to play. Also we never trained our poodle with treats, she would stand at the front door and make noises when she needed to go out and potty, i trained her to sit but that was all the training i did, well besides playing fetch which she instantly loved and always brought the ball back to me where this little yorkie baby tries to run away and chew on it LOL. I've started with calling her name and giving a treat with praise when she looks at me, and telling her to come when she is far away. So now she will look and run to me for her treat LOL oh yea it's been rainy and cold so i hadn't been taking her out as i planned to potty, but she has been doing so well on using the pads in her playpen we keep her in, that i stuck a pad where she always runs and pee's when playing in the living room. So now after peeing on the pad she looks up wanting her treat! its too cute. So my main concern is can you spoil yorkies to where they will try to be alpha? Or does this really on happen if you don't also train them what is right or wrong with treats? any advice or place to find advice would be helpful. cuz i can see just by how energetic and bold she is, that this breed will easily train the owner instead of the owner training them, and i don't want that to happen.