[sophias mommy]

Originally Posted by Teresa Ford

I am not sure if you are quoting me ? Let me clarify what I meant about husbands and wife being separated, so they don't grieve when one dies. When I said that, I meant that would be a stupid idea. A Husband and wife belong together. Members of a family should do most things together. But, I think Yorkies need individual attention, just like you and I do. It is great to be part of a family but, we all need some one on one time. I never said it was a good idea to keep dogs apart so they wouldn't grieve when one dies.
After years of training all kinds of dogs, We devloped a training method especialy for small dogs.
Most of you know, Now I only train puppies and small breed dogs (toy sized) . We never use collars on them as a training tool. I am sorry the trainer you had, was so out of touch with the newer methods. You did the right thing by choosing a gentle, patient, reward based style of teaching.
Here are some very good training books:
1000 Best Dog Training Secrets by Robyn Achey,
Dog Dilemmas by Gary R. Sampson DVM and
Dog Perfect by Sarah Hodgson

great, thank you for the list of books, I'm going to look into it!