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My experience with my past 4 pups they preferred to be in doors. I had a special screen door made, appox 3/4 top screen, appox.1/4 bottom solid with with doggie hatch. Warm weather they had access to very large deck, come and go when ever they pleased, seems they preferred to be in doors, having had 3 at one time to keep each other company, yet they all preferred to be inside. Even my adopted lil boy has this same advantage, he'll go out for 5 or 10 minutes then back in he comes, based on this, I would say yorkies are in side pups. That being said, why would anyone leave a little dog out alone? Call me over protective, but, in all the years I have had small dogs (35 + years) none of them were ever left alone in my yard, I am always with them watching.