I think sometimes small dogs can be over-indulged pups that run the show, and thus can be seen as bratty, just like over-indulged kids. It's your choice how you raise them.
As to "yappy", that is what my Dad always calls them. My Nan raised yorkies, and everyone on my mum's side of the family had a yorkie or two, except my mum. My dad flat out refused to have "one of those yappy things" in his home.
So I didn 't get a yorkie, until I was grown, with kids of my own. My first yirkie, Chelsea, had CT, so she was trained not to get excited and all yappy/barky for her own good.
ZoE doesn't yap; she has a deeper bark....and of all people, she loves to bark at my Dad. She barks to get him to play, to go outside, etc. And I admit it, I get a kick out of it! He says things like "whys she always barking at me", and of course I respond "well, at least she's not yapping!" And I'm grinning huge on the inside...payback! Ha!
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