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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie  In addition to the great ideas you're getting for socialization, I was encouraged to expose mine to a lot of different surfaces -- grass, gravel, wet pavement, even puddles.
Dog parks can be scary places, but maybe arrange a meetup with a known dog or dogs. Yorkies don't need much space, so you could meet in someone's yard.
That's a shame the breeder kept them so long and didn't work on that -- proper socialization is about 90 percent of the reason I feel OK paying top dollar for a Yorkie. |
She couldn’t get “rid” of him because he was going to be bigger. He was 6 pounds when I got him at 5 months. She thinks he is going to be 10 pounds but is already at 9 pounds and almost 7 months old. I felt bad for his brother she was just a few days ago able to get him in a home and he was charting to be a little bigger. I really felt for this pup when I saw him and nobody wanted him because he was bigger and because I’m overweight and always have been so I too have had issues being wanted because I was bigger. I feel glad that I got him though because I’m willing to put in the time that he needs. We have done a lot of different surfaces and in puppy class he has done a tunnel, a training inflatable thing, a Klimb pedastol and a few other things. He has been in the pool also. I want to take him out to the house where my dad grew up that a few of my aunts still live there and one of my uncles because they have cats, rabbits, chickens, goats, a mini horse, ducks, guinea pigs, and so on.