What tricks have you taught your Yorkie?
 

I am just curious about what tricks your Yorkie knows?

I got my dog 6 weeks ago and as soon as I had a treat out for him he would sit, so he obviously knew sit.

Whenever I would come home he would stand on his front legs and paw at me with both feet and it was so adorable. I am trying to teach him that trick on command.

I did get him to stand up on command and sometimes he does what I would call beg, to be sitting but then put his paws up, but he does both/either of these with the UP command and I am trying to separate them into up and beg so that they are different.

I am getting a Yorkie Mix puppy in a few months (due to be born in about a week) and I am wondering what kind of tricks I can teach her/him as they are growing?

I had a Fox Terrier mix growing up that lived to be 19 years old and he was amazing! He knew: Sit, down, crawl, roll over, play dead, beg, stand, stay, dance. Probably more, but I can't think of them right now. He was super easy to teach tricks to and loved to learn. You could take a banana and point it at him and say "Bang" and he would fall over and roll onto his back and put his feet in the air and play dead. He was so cool. I also had a corgi/border collie mix as a young adult and she knew a bunch of tricks. She was the kind of dog that I could put in a sit, tell her to stay, turn my back to her and walk 60 feet away. Turn to face her and then put my fingers down at my side which was my "come" command and she would put it into high gear to get to me. She was fun.

Maybe it is silly but I think teaching a dog more than just basic sit, down stay is a great bonding experience.

Max does all the basics (sit, stay etc)....I can point my finger like a gun at him and say BANG and he will fall on his side and stay motionless...he loves to close the kitchen cabinets for me (15 minutes and a little peanut butter was all that trick took)...I put him on my chest and say "where's daddy's nose?" and he puts his paw on my nose

Awe! That is so cute! I am going to write down all the new ones that I have not heard of already!

I'm trying to teach Louie all the important stuff, and so far it's been going pretty well. He's five months old, and he knows sit, down, stay, and come. Whether that's good or bad for his age, I don't know, haha. We're working on perfecting those before working on too much more.

Next will be drop it and leave it. I'd like to teach him to back up, retrieve specific objects, and to go to his crate on command as well. I also want to try heel/better leash walking ... He doesn't pull when on a walk, always walking beside me or behind me. However, he often swaps from my left side to my right side, and he gets distracted too easily. I know he's a pup, but it's important for his safety that he learns not to do that.

I'm not really going to bother with the cute stuff like dance and shake until much later, if at all. As adorable as it is, I want to focus on obedience training. With your new pup, I'd definitely get the basics down and make sure s/he's attentive to you during training sessions before teaching him/her all the cute stuff. This is my first dog, though, so I could be wrong. Iunno'. XD

I will teach all the basics first as that is the first step to trick training. I am hoping the new puppy will have the aptitude to learn lots of tricks.

My 9 year old Yorkie has the aptitude and the brains, but it is slow. He is an older dog and they are harder to teach new tricks to.

He knew sit when I got him. He knows beg and stand, but he uses them interchangeably when I say UP. I am trying to teach UP and BEG as separate things. He has almost learned HIGH 5 as well, but that is kind of hit or miss at this point. He will do it great one time and then not do it at all the next. Trying to teach him to be a BEAR is also within his talents as he does this on his own, but so far won't do it on command. I am working with him though. He is so sweet and so special.

I do hope the puppy has the aptitude for tricks though as I haven't had a good trick dog in years!

Teaching tricks after basic obedience is one of the best bonding experiences I have had with some of my dogs. My English Setter knows sit, stay and down and also TOUCH (come). He just has no desire to learn anything else. Oh, he also knows Leave it, one of the best commands to teach a dog. I taught it by putting a treat on the floor and telling him to take it. Then put another treat on the floor and fairly forcefully say Leave IT. If he tries to take it cup your hand over it and do not let him get it, all the while saying Leave it. After he gives up trying, most will sit or lay down then remove your hand and say Take it. Let him eat it and then do it again. Now, when I walk him I can tell him Leave it to any object and he will leave it. It is a great command to teach them at a young age. Also, give is a good thing. He does know give as well. He is one that likes to play fetch but if you try to take the toy from him he will bite your hand on accident while he tries to get a better grip on it. I will say give or drop and he will let me have the toy to throw again. Unfortunately he is a big slobbery dog and so after about 3 throws the toy is so nasty!

I can't wait to work with the smaller dogs and maybe a little less slobber. :)

Oh yea, I've dealt with slobber. Ick! The little ones will have A LOT less slobber, trust me, haha!

I just now decided to start working on "drop it" with him. He doesn't have it down, but he seems to get the gist. We're also working on "bed time". He picked that up really quick! I'll probably focus on those two tricks (plus sit, stay, come, and down which he already knows) for the next week before moving on. I'll definitely teach him "leave it"/"take it" after that, using your method! It sounds pretty easy, hopefully he'll pick up on it. :)

I think I started training when Louie was 15 weeks old or so. Even the pups can be very smart and willing to do tricks! It's adorable!

My little Yorkie I just got had to learn "my language" which meant a whole lot of his turning his head to make sure he heard me. I repeat what I said and he turns his head again. He has been with me 6 weeks and he has learned my language. He knows "go to grandma's house" and is ready to go and visit with her dogs. He picked up go to bed and goes to the baby gate and waits for me to open it so that he can go downstairs and get into bed for the night. That took about 2 nights and after that I would ask my husband "are you about ready for bed?" Teek would look at me and run to the baby gate. I kind of miss those head turns though as they are so cute! He already knew what go outside was and would quickly trot to the door and sit down.

He is exceptionally smart. I hope the new puppy is as well. My friend owns the parents and so I know that they are both smart. The dad (Yorkie) is a huge snuggler. When I go see my friend her dog just melts against me and snuggles with me. He is really quiet but friendly. He will just sit there and snuggle with you for an hour if you let him. I think we will get a very trainable puppy and it will be half Yorkie!

Geez, I'm a terrible dog trainer....Tyson knows sit and leave it. I can't for the life of me teach him to stay!

We are working on quiet right now. I use the "shove a treat in his mouth and say quiet the second he stops barking" method. I think it may be making him bark more.....

There was a member here that taught her Yorkie to growl on command...I thought that was super cute:D

LEAVE IT is definitely an important one. It one of the 1st I taught Max and it came in very handy when my better half dropped a bottle of 500 aspirins all over the kitchen floor. She shouted "leave it" and he did not touch a single one.

I've recently got my Yorkie at 6 months had him for 4 days and he doesn't listen when I tell him come he doesn't answer to clapping snapping or whistling.. He looks at me like I'm crazy and lay back down

I am teaching Teek Leave it, he is doing pretty good.

Teaching your dog is come is something that took me a few dogs and a training class to get down.

You have to get a treat and then call the dog and I use the word Touch as my Come command. You have to praise them like crazy when they do come to you. I learned also to grab the dog when they do come as you are giving them the treat. That way if the dog gets loose and you need it come to you then they are used to you grabbing them.

The biggest mistake people make with Come, is when the dog gets outside and they call the dog back and the dog comes and then they yell at the dog for getting outside in the first place. I had my big dog get out and I got down on a knee and pretended I had a treat and told him to TOUCH and he saw me like that and he came running back to me. I was able to grab his collar and took him inside all the while telling him what a good boy he was and that he needed a treat (my dogs know that word!) and I gave him a treat for coming back and never said a word to him for slipping out the door in the first place.

Use treats and when they will do that take turns calling him from across a room with another person and give him a treat when he comes to you.

Training classes are an awesome experience for you and for the dog. I highly recommend enrolling the dog in a training course at a local pet center. I have done PetSmart and a local trainer and the Pet Sense classes were just as good if not better than the local trainer was. It is a great bonding experience for you and your pup too.

Because is so much older I will just continue to train him as I have been to several training courses with different dogs over the years and I even started online classes to be a trainer, but then I lost my job at a petstore and they closed down so I didn't get very far into it. I would take a new puppy to training courses because it is more for the good experience and bonding with me and the puppy.

Look into courses for the dog it is well worth the money and you will have a better dog at the end of each course you take. :aimeeyork

Moki is 2 yrs 8 months. He will sit, sit up, shake both paws, hi five both paws. He knows left from right. Dance, touch down dance, roll over, Play dead roll over. Up, down, Stay, come, leave it. Doesn't walk ahead of me when I say heel. Never darts out the door with out permission. Rings the bell to go potty outside. Fetch all his toys by name. Quite bark. Bark quit when asked please.ect ect.. Stay and come are the most important. Winnie is 16 weeks. She is potty pad trained. Stated to ring the bell to go outside and potty. Shake one paw, sit , sit up and come. Moki is solid on work command. Winnie is still gettting may take 2-3 tries still. training is fun for us.

That is how I want the new puppy to be like! Teek is learning a couple new things. It is slow, but I am patient. I don't think he was ever taught anything except sit at his old house so he is starting from scratch. He has the talents, I have seen him. I am trying to teach him to stretch. He stretches all the time, so when he does it I say Stretch and I am hoping he catches on. It is hard when you take in an older dog. His old house had a language that he knew and there was a whole lot of head tilting when I got him because he did not understand my house language, but he has most of it down now and he is really starting to learn new things, but I had to get the basics down first and get him to understand my language as much as I had to learn his language. I know when he wants to play and when we wants to go outside. He paws his water dish if it is empty, and also our other dogs dish when it is empty (Big dog gets fed twice a day so his bowl is always empty). Teek's food dish is never empty, so I am sure he would paw it if it was empty, but I free feed him so he always has food as I check it twice a day when I check his water.

I think Teek will learn a few more things, he is very smart. I am looking for ideas for my daughter's Yorkie Mix puppy (it should be born about any day!) so I can teach it at a young age.

Thanks for all the shares on what your Yorkie can do and suggestions, keep them coming.:aimeeyork

Short trainings 3x aday and it can take awhile. Some are easy some take months. But seems the more they know the faster they get. patience is the key they get tired/fristrated and so do we. then its time to quit.

Aww... he's still a baby. We got Penny at almost 10 months old and had to teach her her name before teaching her to come. Does he look at you when you say his name? If not, training should start there by saying his name and treating him when he looks at you.

We started with obedience training before we moved onto tricks. Penny, our 2 1/2 year old is working on improving on all her basics with attention to focus, duration and distance. Our almost 9 y/o Guinness is solid with obedience, has gone on to learned quite a few tricks- say your prayers, sneeze on command, get me a tissue, moonwalk (Micheal Jackson), shut the door and push the button etc..

When I brought Teek home he would not answer to his name at all. We picked out a new name for him, Teek, and within 2 days he was responding to it. After that he would come when I called him. Even now, if I call him by his old name he will turn away from me and pout or put his head under a blanket and ignore me.

Maybe the dog wants a new name or doesn't like his old name?

Teek was 9 years old when I got him and they had gotten him as a puppy so he knew that was his name. I think he thought that if he had that name he might be going back to them or something. I changed his name and it was like he knew he was spending the rest of his life with me.

I'm soo glad Teek is with you now. Poor thing, I'm guessing he got into trouble and associates his old name with negativity.



http://youtu.be/11nEh7oie34

This is Penny working on focus with distractions and heeling in position. Left turns are little difficult because she likes to walk a little too far front. Look at me! I’m all wrong too! Sigh… treating with the incorrect hand, holding at leash wrong etc...

Training Kali is my fave part next to cuddles :p I started with her immediately at 8 wks when we got home. I talk to her with simple words all the time like you would a toddler. its been two weeks and she knows come, sit, up, paw, other paw, high five, down, spin, roll, stay, get it, drop it, and go potty. I am very proud of her. i work with her a couple times a day whenever i have moment. I think she thinks its fun too. I give her little pieces of her puppy food in the wet version as her treats since she's so little. after she has learned a few tricks i would start linking them up before giving her the reward.

idk how to post a video but you can see her here https://instagram.com/kutie_yorkie_kali/

She sounds like a smart little girl! I hope our puppy learns that quickly. The new puppy is my daughter's 17th birthday present. The puppies are due any day and my daughter's birthday is on Friday. She knows she is getting the puppy and gets to help pick which one we take home. My daughter is amazing and she does a lot with Teek. The care of the puppy will be both of our responsibilities, but I will do a lot of the work with it. I plan to do a lot of the training of it, with her helping of course. I am hoping Teek will learn some of the tricks faster with a new little one running around learning stuff. He has learned a few tricks in the 2 months I have had him. I don't think anyone ever tried to teach him stuff before, but he is trying hard. He is a smart little guy.

Keep up the good work! Sounds like she loves to please!

Our 2 yr old yorkie knows sit, lay down, roll over, high five, shake, dance and box
I keep trying to teach her how to pray but she won't cooperate- she gets too excited!

Hi all, my baby is 5 months old, he knows how to sit, stay, lay, crawl, go up, say his prayers, go to his bed (which he uses only to play in because he sleeps in my bed ☺️) turn around to the right, turn around the other way, roll over, bang-bang, figure eight with cones, weave with 4 cones, jump through a small hula hoop (started with a old paper towel roll), he is learning to push his dump truck and ring a desk bell, his favorite and mine too is I put his blanket on the floor and he lays on it grabs the corner with his mouth and rolls over which wraps him in the blanket- this one I tell him to get his 'blankie and go night night, but when he sees me put his blanket down he is so excited he is usually doing it before I can tell him to, lol. The hardest ones so far has been saying his prayers and ringing the bell. We both have a great time doing his tricks. It is amazing how fast and eager they are to learn. Now if I could just get him to potty outside EVERYTIME, lol fast learner with a stubborn streak! Enjoy your new puppy when the time comes to being him home, they are so precious! Excited for you!

Sparkle who is 4 months knows come, sit, get down, in your bed lay down (only even is a test involved) we are attempting to teach go potty (sometimes she does most times she goes when she wants), stay ( not going so well she gets super excited), we also want to teach speak and quiet she tends to listen to my boyfriend rather than me her says is because I baby her. She my baby and we're working at it every day :)

Tink, my 11 year old yorkie, knows how to:
Sit, lay down, turn around, "high-five", shake
She has an obsession with socks since I got her as a puppy, so if I point to a pair of pants on the floor (that have socks in there somewhere) and say, "Go Find" she very determinately will rummage through until she finds them :D
It's weird, but it makes her happy when she "Finds" the socks in the pants. I regularly do this as a game, shove some socks into pants - then tell her "Go Find". :)

Today Teek did Stretch twice on command, but as soon as I got out a treat for him it was standing up and begging. He will sit on command for a treat or he will go into a beg or do a stand for the treat. I can get him to stretch if no food is involved, which is odd.

I am still working on more commands, I must be honest that it is slow going with him. Once he figures out what I want though he gets it pretty good. I am very patient with him though as I don't know what his life was like before he was with me.

My 2 years old yorkie Yobo knows how to sit, lay, stay, shake, hi-5, roll, play dead, and fetch. I'm in the process of teaching him new tricks. My 6 months old morkie knows how to sit, shake, and hi-5. She's picking up fast as she's learning from Yobo.

I plan to buy a clicker. Has anyone had good results with that?

Mine are attracted to the clicker sound but I'm not trained😉

And don't forget the baby toys!
Vtech makes the cutest ones!!
I have 4 andyou can't tell me they don't make em for dogs!lol!
One says "can you shake my maracas smarty paws?"
It's a puppy all you have to do is bump it and it activates .there is a pony that way too. She has a piano she plays. And another puppy you step on the key pads . They are all children's voices and zoey loves them! She will go thru all 4 of them to get me to play ball.

Hi everyone,

Sunni is almost 6 months now..her birthday is on May 6(so I was told). We have been in basic puppy classes, but she really has known all the things we are being taught, so she's a little star (of puppy class), haha. She knows, sit, stay, down, come, leave it, bring it, wanna play?, go get your toy, find it, shakes with right or left paw whichever one I ask for, rollover, beg. She's great at sit/stay, down/stay, High five....except its really high 15..her two paws and my hand, lol. I cant get her to play dead yet. I'm obssessed with Misa Minnie, and still watch that little doll YouTube videos, because I cant beleive what that puppy could do at 10 weeks old!! over 20 tricks, lol. If you haven't seen any of them, do yourself a favor and watch. She's a smartie and so beautiful. I have tried to get Sunni to jump thru a hula hoop...even walk thru..no luck. Setting up cups as an obstacle course has turned in to...break thru, haha. I just make a little pyramid and tell her to break thru..she does, we are both pleased. I've only had her a few months and she's learned all of these....I've had all my other dogs for YEARS and pretty much the most we accomplished was sit...yeah..thats about it, lol. One dog knew how to do High 5 (one paw) an down, but thats about it. Not counting my Golden Ret..she was very smart..knew lots of tricks.

I'm with you MissSunni, watching Misa is nothing short of amazing and where I learned to do some of the tricks I have taught Presley, lol. With the hula hoop, get her to sit and stay hold the hoop with the hand closest to her and then put a treat in your other hand and give her the go command, that is how I got Presley jumping the hoop, but I started with the cardboard paper towel holder...so cute!!

Wow JadeD, that's so cool that you've had so many dogs! I also agree that the training is a super good bonding experience with the pups. And yorkies are SO smart! And when they get it, we're super happy and they're super happy :D Just all round merry fun!

I got Scottie when he was 5 months old and didn't realize I could train him right away (but now I know :P).

He's now 1 year and 9 months and has learned to:
touch, leave it, sit, stay, come, fetch, turn around, sit pretty, wave a paw, shake a paw, roll over, play dead, jump through my arms shaped as a hoop, jump through my legs if I do a 'ballerina plie', find a toy that I hide, and my ultimate favourite: clean up your toys!! muahaha..:D

I tried teaching him names of toys but he just got confused lol

I have owned several dogs in my life. As a child it seemed like we got new dogs all the time until we got our Fox Terrier. He was amazing at learning tricks. My husband bought me a dog when we were dating, A husky. She was honestly a disaster for me as far as training, but I learned a lot with her and if not for her I might not be the dog person I am now. We had her for her entire life of 11 years. She did teach me more than I can even imagine.

The puppies are doing well in their training, but still a long way to go. They step up on stools. I can catch the girl puppy in the air when she jumps. This is mine and her "special" trick that she only does with me. It is actually harder to train them because I never have one on one time with them with 4 dogs being in the house. They do sit, down, up, reach (stretch up with their paws). A few others. I keep trying to add more things but keep up with the current ones as well.