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do your yorkies follow or run? ok my question is when you let your yorkies out [park, front yard, any open area], do your yorkies follow you or do they run away? i tried this with my own yorkies at my park [ i had 3 of my friends with me incase i needed some extra help catching them] and my oldest lucky would run like the wind once he see's grass, and my youngest laila would follow him. they would let us chase them forever. i guess they think its a game. i've seen some people in my city with their dogs at the park and the dog would just follow their owner without a leash!! i want my dogs to be like that. do any of you guys have dogs like that? if so, teach me how to train my dogs to follow me instead of running away from me =( |
Inside the house, Roxy always waits for me then follows-no matter how much in a hurry she is. In the mornings, when we first get up, she waits till I start down the stairs then she is nipping my heals trying to get me to the door a little faster. Outside, on her leash, all I can say is thank God she isn't a Great Dane!. She is on her 2 hind legs pulling for all she's worth to make me go faster. Go figure. :p |
Yorkies and those other dogs are VERY different. Loki and I do training classes every week and Loki is VERY smart... he learns FAST... but the difference is that even when the other dogs don't get it right away they are still following their owners, trying to please. Loki does the trick, gets bored and his nose takes him away. I had to train him to "watch me" and to walk beside me, but if I just let him off the leash (inside only, never outside!) he just goes off to sniff the whole place. |
I've never let mine off leash. I would be to afraid another dog would get after them. We have a really big back yard that they run and play in, and we also go to play dates and walks. They get enough exercise without going off leash were there could be trouble. |
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I think the best way to get them to follow you closely is to train them by keeping them on a leash for the first several months. Let them know that the purpose of a walk is keeping up with you. Once she gets used to that, you can try taking her off leash. When you do, here's a game that helps: Have a friend hold her, and you walk several paces away. Shout "come" as your friend lets go, and shower her with praise and treats when she gets to you. Gradually increase the distance and even hide for her. It's a great game and teaches her a good habit. That said, I've recently been told that some of Eddie's behavioral issues (he beats up Jack occassionally) could be because I give him too much freedom. I've been told that our walks should always be on leash, so I'm going back to square 1 for a little while. |
Pippa follows! I believe the earlier they are off the lead the quicker they learn. Pippa walked off the lead the 2nd day i had her at 10 weeks old and has never run off, she walks beside me looking up at me. |
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Momiji is in Puppy Kindergarten and she is learning how to walk with leash. I am teaching her to stay with me but at this point she doesn't like the leash.... It will be a long way to go but I take her to dog park once a month with only with other yorkies and she runs off leash. It is a small park and closed (kind of) so I don't have to worry about her run away. And she is too busy sniffing other dog and doesn't think about running away yet!! lol |
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Chachi and Jewels stay with us off lead also. Jewels always did it. Chachi started at about a little over one year old. |
stick some treats in your pockets let them smell them then they will follow you! |
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when Molly was little we would always take her outside on a leash and hold the leash, then we started tethering down the leash and roam a little to see if she would follow and pretty much she would just sit in the grass and soak up the sun and let us do whatever we needed to do in the yard. One day i decided to tether her and about half an hour after i walked over, unclasped her leash and walked away and she stayed, shortly after i called her, she came and sat by me and it became as if we were inside, she would just follow me. after that we started taking her out with NO leash and everything was great. One day not too long ago we took her outside and the moment she saw daylight she BOLTED and it took us about an hour to find our little dog in our woodsy backyard. All i can think is she saw a squirrel or chipmunk and took off after it. Since then we tried probably two more times without a leash with the same result so now NO more non-leashed time outdoors. Guess i have to re-train her |
No dog should ever be off leash.....unless in their yard In my opinion, no dog should ever be off leash unless in their own yard. Just last week a lady was walking her Yorkie, without a leash, and another dog attacked the Yorkie and killed the dog and injured the lady trying to protect her dog. No dog, no matter how well trained, will at sometime take off because of something they see etc. and it takes only one time to have something happen, either hit by a car, attacked by another dog or get lost. I love my pets tooooo much to place them in that danger. I have had trainers tell me never to let them run freely unless in their own yard. And there are too many lost dogs because of owners allowing this type of action. Please be careful |
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