I have heard of Tabasco sauce being put on furniture to prevent chewing. I even tried with my English Setters, who are notorious chewers all their lives. You know what? They LOVED Tabasco sauce! Sigh.
Frankly, I think Tabasco is too strong for little Yorkies and you ought to try the bitter apple concoction if he is stubborn about chewing things. HOWEVER, the best way is just to train them not to chew your things by stopping them when they do, say "no chewing", and hand them one of THEIR toys with a smile.
I have never let Higgins "puppy chew" my hands and fingers, either. I just said "No biting, just kisses" and would take my hand away and/or put him down. Since he wanted to be on my lap, he soon learned not to bite the hand that pets him! Don likes to play rougher with him and has always let Higgins chew him up. But Higgins knows not to try it with me.
On some site that talked about training (my memory is the pits), they said that when the pup did something he shouldn't, that all play should STOP immediately. We just say "no" and put Higgins down, or stop the game, or go on about our business, and we DON'T pay any attention to him. Yorkies just HAVE to have your attention, so they will do anything to get it. We have been trying to reward Higgins with lots of attention when he is good and withold attention when he is not good. It really works quite well.
Higgins would like attention FULL-TIME, thank you, so we do tell him when we don't want to play. That is starting to work. It helps if we pat him and reassure him and then firmly put him down or in our lap and go back to what we are doing. |