Honeyvixen82 ... welcome to the forum! I know everyone here has read our method about a bzillion times but it worked in one day for us ... soooo ... here goes!
We also read this method in one of the many books we studied before we made a decision to buy a Yorkie ... if you use a crate ... the second day we had Toto, when we put her in her crate to nap, she started yipping! We had read that when they do this, simply tap on the metal part of the crate with a metal object. The theory being that if they do something you don't like, in turn you should do something that they don't like and I can assure you Toto doesn't like to hear metal on metal!!
[I used a little metal curtain rod, and it only took about 6 times and she never did it again ... each time I tapped, at the same time I firmly said "NO"!] This also helped her to learn the "No" command!
We WANT her to bark ... we just want her to know when it's OK to do it and when not to! She learned that if we firmly tell her "No" ... that means that she better quit whatever she is doing, because it's wrong! This has worked wonderfully for us and if you choose to try it, I hope it works for you! These little guys are the most wonderful discoveries we have ever made! Toto is our joy!!
