[yorkietalkjilly]

I got my Tibbe at age 9 mos., and he was a kennel-crazy, unsocialized, fearful screaming/barking/growling/biting mess of a dog and with a lot of patient and fun training, setting early boundaries, very slowly desensitizing him to his fears, playing challenging games, lots of exercise and love, he's darn near the perfect pet. Took a year but in 6 months he was a different dog. Training and working patiently with him in short sessions frequently worked a miracle on him and now he never ever really misbehaves or destroys anything about the house. He's the happiest dog I've ever known, craves attention but can stay alone without stressing at all, meet approved strangers with a happy, wagging body, loves all dogs and is totally clean in the house as far as pottytraining. Just 15 minutes a day spread out in short sessions and done almost every day at first to set the patterns can just totally fix most dogs' behavior problems. Only the severely abused and psychologically damaged dogs take more daily time than that. And it's fun, fun, fun, fun, fun to see them start to blossom and become a real buddy during the work. You both get so much out of it.