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01-14-2016, 01:13 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Sagamore hills
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| Training a hyper yorkie Hi everyone. New to this forum. I have a morkie name Bella. She is 1 year old. I have had since the age of 16 weeks. She is very hyper all the time. Does not sit still for a minute. She loves playing with her buddy Oreo, our 2 year old 15 lb very docile cat. The problem is when I am trying to train her she will not sit still. I have tried just about everything short of a training class. Her attention spam is about half a second...lol Any advice would be helpful. She does know how to sit and lay down. |
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01-14-2016, 05:47 PM | #2 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Welcome to Yorkie Talk. I do not have experience with a hyper dog, but I had a neighbor with a hyper, tiny Yorkie, so I understand your dilemma. Does Bella like walks? Maybe try draining some of her energy with a long walk first (when the weather is conducive to being outdoors)? Using high value rewards and loads of patience may help too. Since Bella is already high energy, keep your voice and demeanor really low key when training. You know how people often use high voices to try to excite a dog? Use a low, even voice. Clicker training might be something that works better for Bella. Also work on building a daily routine. Having a schedule of daily activities, doing things around the same time each day, including brief training sessions, may have a calming influence.
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01-15-2016, 01:10 PM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Sagamore hills
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| hi thanks for the tips. I have tried clicker training. I take her on long walks. I work all day so she is home alone from about 8-6. She does have the run of our laundry room and mud room during the time I am out. She is doing better at the potty outside thing. Even when its just her and I she has no attention spam. I am lost at what to do with her as far as training. |
01-16-2016, 06:23 AM | #4 | |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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Does she like fetch? We play fetch in the house to try to drain energy. Keep your attempts at training sessions brief, but frequent. Have her perform her sit and down in the morning and several times in the evening. Don't give up hope. Even dogs with longer attention spans can take longer to learn a new command. My Teddy took almost a year to learn "shake hands." Even with a brother to follow, he couldn't understand why I wanted him to do it. Now he has a very nice handshake. 1 year old is still very young and these little ones are still very precocious at that age. My Teddy is still changing at almost 7 years old.
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01-16-2016, 10:58 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: USA
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| You have gotten such good advice - I would just lie to add that a more formal type of traning like at Petsmart or someplace like that will give him some exercise (that the hyper ones really need) but also begin to instill some focus situations. May take a while but this will help him settle down some because not only is he being active, but he has to pay attention to what is going on. Gives them a different perspective. Good luck!
__________________ . Cali , and Cali's keeper and staff, Jay No, not a "mini" Yorkie - She loves to motor in her Mini Cooper car |
01-17-2016, 05:28 PM | #6 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Sagamore hills
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| I wish I had time to take her to some formal training but my work schedule is so varied from day to day. |
01-18-2016, 11:07 AM | #7 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Portland tn
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| Have you tried online training I have had decent success learning some training methods from YouTube and the like. I really liked Everything Dog our German Shepherd Dog, Lexi was our hyper one, but we went to a trainer with her. My son trained his French Bulldog Taz with the above, it worked for him. Our Yorkies are well mannered but we never trained them, just spoiled them. |
01-21-2016, 10:33 AM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: Texas
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| I recommend this site a lot on here: Introduction | Mind to Mind For a hyper dog: maybe play some fetch for a while first, then cuddle for a short bit to calm things down, then do multiple SHORT (5min) training session every day you can. Train in the morning and twice or more in the evening after you get off work. On your days off see if you can do six short sessions in. Slowly increase the training session time and then you can decrease the number of training sessions. When Mario was at the one year mark, I was doing at least four sessions a day with a great deal of variety between them. He was not terribly hyper when it came to training time though, but very hyper outside of training time.
__________________ Mario was adopted May 2015. Now he is a service dog and brother to Bailey the Airdale mix |
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