It's a little hard to generalize about yorkies because there's great variation among individual dogs. I have two yorkies, and my two year old male Pookie is a very different dog from my one year old female Boo Boo.
As I remember, a yorkie doesn't really bark when it's a three month old puppy. My dogs are older and do bark -- usually when people come to the door, when my husband waters the lawn, and when the dogs are outside and see cars coming down the street. Otherwise they're usually pretty quiet.
As far as furniture and other household items go, the dogs can be destruction machines. For this reason, we put up a babygate to keep the dogs out of our living room and dining room. We also bought a 8in1 No Chew Spray to stop them from chewing the throw pillows in the den.
When Pookie was a puppy, he had a pretty hard time with teething and practically destroyed the wooden chairs in our kitchen. But we could have nipped that problem in the bud, had we known about the No Chew Spray. Boo Boo had an easier time with teething and wasn't as destructive.
The biggest problem with my dogs is that we never really made the effort to train them to pee and poop outside. I wish we had been more diligent about housebreaking them. Pookie generally pees outside, but Boo Boo doesn't. I use an enzyme cleaner Out Pet Stain and Odor Remover to clean the carpets in our bedroom. We also replaced the carpet in our den with a good wood laminate floor, which is much easier to keep clean.
That said, I love Pookie and Boo Boo dearly and wouldn't trade them for their weight in gold. I am a much happier person since my babies entered my life. |