ahh Buster Brown, don't feel sorry for me. I mean, it's alright to feel sorry about my pet. I'm able to function, manage the pain with natural things, just am often sleep deprived and foggy in the mornings. My grammar and speech suffers from it. I just wanted to explain why I needed to know some of these specific details before trying to take on another puppy, which I want so bad. I see that on my list are common annoyance to a lot of people and I just wanted to make sure I could make the changes before I committed to doing this again.
I was very fortunate to have my last yorkie crate trained beginning from the time he came home with us 3 years ago. I house trained him, he knew how to ask to go out and he definitely knew how to ask to come back in lol He knew how to sit, lay down, turn around in circles in both directions, sit pretty, pray and walk around a figure 8, he also knew how to get into his crate at night for bed. He kept me on schedule. He knew when we got up, he went potty and he had his breakfast. Then he knew exactly what time he ate his dinner lol It just never dawned on me that I could train him to bark on command, which would then lead to being quiet on command. This is what I learned just today so no surgery or barking collar sound like they'll be in our future. The scratching and whimpering to get out too early, he stayed in the crate till 7:30ish every morning, could have been resolved with a daily walk. These are simple and doable solutions for me.
Look at this amazing tutorial for teaching my dog to speak and be quiet on command.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vtn8NhofOw
I'm so thrilled with it that I practiced with my other pets today.
Funny thing is that the toy poodle could care less about treats! So I reward her with a cheerful "good girl" and pat on the head. She was thrilled! Easy to please. Can a yorkie be easy to please?