6 weeks really is way too early to bring her home, whether she was eating solids or not and I say this from personal experience... but she's here now so I'll give my tidbit of advice. We brought Chip home at 7 weeks (we were lied to) and we had the opposite problem. He was sick when we brought him home so he was extremely quiet and shy. The day we brought him home, he crawled underneath of the computer desk and shook. By that night he was a bit more trusting and cuddled with us on the floor... yes we slept on the floor with him because he was so scared and we didn't want to just throw him in a crate and we were too afraid for him to be on the bed at his size. Anyways, after he started feeling better and trusted us, he was the cutest little puppy. He learned tricks so quickly and he'd play so sweet. He'd nibble on our ears in the middle of the night for us to take him out to potty and he would sleep on my pillow above my head. That only lasted about 3 weeks until the real Chip came out! He was stubborn, independent, and CRAZY! We would give him a bone for "quiet time" in the evenings and he would attack it and shove it on the floor then look down and bark at it and bark at us to get it for him. We'd get it for him and he'd do it again. If we ignored him, he'd go pick up something that he knew he wasn't supposed to have so we would take that from him and get his bone. We'd work with him on tricks and he would pretend like he was clueless so we'd give it a rest for a little while, then out of no where about a week or so later, he'd do what we had been training him to do. Keep away was his favorite game and by keep away, I don't mean that we kept the toy away from him... he kept it away from us. He'd run toward us fast, then when he'd go to grab for the toy to throw it again, he'd bolt in the other direction. Remember me saying he'd nibble on our ears to go potty in the middle of the night? Well, suddenly and out of no where he started just going to the end of the bed and peeing. We had never ignored his urges to go potty and always took him immediately, so we have no idea where that came from. We then started crate training and giving him more exercise. We researched. We did a lot of YT reading. We worked hard on obedience. At 9 months we had him neutered. Between the training, exercise, and neutering, he is a lot more calm. He's now 3 years old and a total cuddle bug. Unless something is unusual in our house, like a new visitor, or he's in a playful mood, he's sleeping on the floor or cuddling on our laps. He demands lap time and he is VERY demanding. The truth is, yorkies really are not typically lap dogs until they get older and sometimes not even then. They are stubborn, they are hard headed, and they are high energy dogs. I met two 8 month old mini schnauzers the other day that were 10 times more calm than my two 3 year old yorkies. I do think at 13 weeks old Zoe is testing you to see what she can and cannot get away with and she is learning a lot. Her personality is starting to shine out a little bit. Now that you have her you do need to start researching and find a training method that works for her and practice consistency with it. Make sure she has plenty of exercise. She is still VERY young and she's still probably adjusting.
__________________ ~*~ Chip ~*~ Smokey ~*~
My heart is wrapped around their little paws Karley Marissa born 1/20/12 weighing 8 lbs 11 oz and 21.5 inches long |