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Originally Posted by matese  OMG, he's soooo cute. The photo came out perfect. 8 months old to neuter is the norm, hopefully he is not hiking his leg a lot and continues to kinda squat when he pees. Yorkie puppies are very high energy if he is not food or toy motivated, training basic commands can be a bit tricky and with him not having sharp hearing works against him. Terriers have short concentration span, training should be no longer then 5 to 7 minutes several times a day. After 7 minutes they are no longer focused on you, their minds are on making mischief lol. When you do train him use hand signals with each command and, train only one command at a time. When he gets that one command down pat, then you can move on with a new command. I trained my boy voice and hand commands, it works perfect when I am on the phone and he wants me off it. I give him his SIT, STAY hand command, works for me. |
I’d be thrilled if he focused for five minutes. But I have to (guiltily) admit I’m not working too hard at it yet. When he’s in his pen, I’m concentrating on potty training, and when he’s out of his pen I mostly let him run and play, because he needs to burn up some of that endless energy to sleep at night. After his run and play sessions, I spend a few minutes trying to get him to accept a few strokes of his brush. I need to start working on “Leave it” again, trying with two toys instead of a toy and a treat, but I haven’t tried it yet
He’s still squatting to pee, and I haven’t seen him do any “marking” yet. I hope I’ll be able to get him neutered before that becomes a problem. Although I have to also admit that I’m awfully nervous about the surgery. He’s so little, and I know some little dogs don’t handle anesthesia.