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Did you hire a trainer, take your yorkie to classes, or train yourself? Which have you found to be best? Thanks |
I trained myself. Yorkies are intelligent dogs that were bred to work. I've always find them easy to train on the basics; pottying, sit, stay, down, come. |
Train myself. It's lots of fun for both of us. |
I took dog obedience classes with all my dogs but in reality classes were more for me than it was for them. |
For my first pup, Lexi, I went to a class since I was clueless on training dogs. When I got my second pup I just used the knowledge I already had to start training him. |
I have always trained my dogs myself. However, with Bonnie I am going to go to puppy classes primarily for socialization purposes. |
Train myself |
Thank you all so much for responding. May I ask what method you used- out of a book, website, common sense, experience, etc? Thanks, and Moxie thanks you too (or she will, once she learns her manners!) |
I trained my three myself and we take ours with us a lot to socialize which helps a great deal imho. |
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Main thing is consistency and positive rewards. It's so easy to get upset and mad. And I am not saying they need a treat for every good thing a nice pat or good job is reward enough at times . Pick words you want to use and use them every time. Some of my words my 3 know well are go outside, leave it and let's go along with many more. Make it fun and not stressful for you and your pup. And you will be surprised on the out come. Good luck and keep us posted. And of course reading books how others do it is always a great way to learn |
I did Petsmart puppy classes but after that I did it myself. Callie can pick up the basics of a trick in the first 5 to 10 minutes. |
Hi, I seen that you posted you potty trained your dog , is there any suggestions or ways that you train your puppy |
I have trained all of my dogs to sit, shake hands and down. Those are easy. When I got yorkies I decided I wanted to take them to classes so they will learn to obey with the distraction of having other dogs around. They already knew sit, shake and down. I liked the classes a lot. They learned stay and leave it and sort of learned to heal. We are still working on that one. They are so smart and learned after only a couple of commands. |
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I hired a trainer who was a moron so I re-trained myself:D. I can't recommend any specific books but the ASPCA, RSPCA and various website have helped and also just getting to know my dog. Time and patience are both virtues! |
We attended obedience classes after basic puppy manners classes. I found learning from someone in person to be very helpful. |
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I would advise that you choose the words you will use to train, ahead of time, and be consistent with them. Sit, stay, down, here....all went well. But we have a few goofs. Before I'd decided on "leave it", ZoE tried to get into something nasty as a very young 7-8 week old puppy, and I yelled out "yucky!" And she backed away. A month latter and I shattered a glass dish on my kitchen floor and no amount of telling her to stay away did any good, so remembering how she backed away at the last incident, I yelled out "yucky!" It worked again, and now we are stuck with it. The first time after getting ZoE, that my daughter came home from college, and was in the driveway unpacking her car, I said "where's Lauren?" And ZoE ran to the window to look out at the driveway. Well, it turns out ZoE interpreted it To mean, someone's here to visit us. Because now, four years on, even if Lauren is standing in the room with Zo and you say "where's Lauren?", she goes running to the window over looking the driveway to see who's here to visit us. lol. So, choose your training words wisely! :) |
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Positive reinforcement using treats, toys or clicker is the method used by most of us here. Look up classical conditioning dog training when you research books. Quote:
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I took Sammie to a class and I did a lot of research on the internet. Most of the questions I had I answered them on the internet. However, I did enjoy the class because it helped me train with other dogs as a distraction. I also enjoyed the socialization aspect of the classes. |
A combination of both now. Training myself and also using a competitive obedience trainer. When the pups are young, it is very good to get an experienced eye on both them and you, plus the socialization aspect in all its varieties, then I take a break, train myself, and go back if and when we hit a rough patch, or just for my trainer to review our progress. Dara is overdue for a re-check with the trainer! |
Training I have had great results with Teddi....sit, stay, shake hands, off, leave it....But 'come' is proving to be very difficult..she will come to me when i call her, but only if she wants to...is it a Yorkie thing?...My poodle cross Charley comes to me as soon as i call him, no matter what is going on....:aimeeyork |
I'm experiencing the same troubles with Sammie and come. When I trained him on the come command he was interested. Currently though he comes when he wants. So we are currently retraining on the come command. I'm mixing the training in with the stay command. We started training inside the house and I'm trying to perfect the command in my backyard. For treats I use chopped chicken chunks. |
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All my passed girls I trained myself. Cody my 3 y/o adopted boy I took to obedience training for his dog aggression issues. Never had an aggressive dog. |
A book that was recomended to me by one of the mommys was Yorkies for Dummies. I may have that backwards,LOL I got it on Amazon, |
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I'm ordering Yorkies For Dummies, thank you! In the meanwhile, Moxie and I have a session with a highly praised and rec'd dog behaviorist/ trainer that specializes in small dogs. I'm new to small dogs so even if it's mostly for me to learn, that's fine. They use clicker training I believe. Moxie really needs help with house training, going in her crate at night, and expressing her friendly desire to meet new dogs and people in a non aggressive way (she howls, barks, and whines, even though she is excited, not angry). As well as barking indoors and socializing better w/ other dogs (the family I saved her from never let her outside). I'm going to do this session and then see if I can take it from there, we need another one, or we should do classes. This company also runs a small dog playgroup so hopefully, this will be good for us both in the long run, even though I bet Moxie will have some sass about having to follow new rules. |
I highly recommend a training class if you have never trained a dog before. They will help you see what you are doing wrong and teach you how to train. That being said... I took one dog of mine many years ago through 3 levels of training and she did great. Another dog I had I took through 2 levels. The English Setter I currently have went through basic training. Having been through all those classes has been great because I have a good understanding now of how to train a dog. I just adopted a 9 year old Yorkie and he is a great dog. He is social and well behaved. I am getting a half Yorkie puppy though in a few months. They are due to be born next week and then I will have about a 3 month wait until they are ready to leave. I do plan to take the puppy to basic obedience class, even though I know how to train. I think it will be good for the dog to go to a class. If she does really well I may put her/him in another class just for the fun of it for them. I can really do the training though and plan to teach the puppy lots of fun tricks along with obedience training. |
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