Sounds like my life!!:p

Just give her a little time, maybe start working with her a little bit. Sit down on the carpet with some treats and just practice calling her to you, when she comes praise her and give her some yummy treats!

My Pnut will hardly ever come to me, he comes to me on his own time or when I have treats, or when I am eating. I am use to it, haha!

Very glad to know I not alone here too! Alice is the same way, she'll come to me when I call her (well, usually:rolleyes:) but she always stops short - about a foot away from me. She follows me EVERYWHERE, jumps up on my lap or at my legs when I'm sitting so she can be on my lap etc., but when I ask her to come, she'll come running but always stops just short of my hand. When I have to pick her up off the ground she gets into a submissive stance too - she'll stop but sort of crouch down while I pick her up, but once I'm holding her she's fine and dandy;). Maybe it's because they're so small and our hands look like a gigantic mouth to them? Idk, stumps me, but glad it's common. I try to imagine being that small and seeing a human hand in front of me and it must be a little daunting for them even if they know that hand belongs to someone who loves them and treats them like gold.

I would say that not coming on command is a yorkie thing,but I have a pom that I inherited from my mother that just does not want to obey. I put her on a leash (so she can not run),get a hand full of her favorite treats and take her to the backyard. We practise the come command about 6 times a day. She is finally where I can point to the ground and state come,she responds most of the time. If she does not come on command I state her name and then the command. She is 10yrs old so I dont expect this to get much better,but I do think it very important for all dogs to obey. Yesterday was a good example in my life why. There was a small snake in my backyard. We discovered it right after the 5 older dogs went flying outside,my daughter was holding Mina (4months and still pottie training). My daughter yells that there is a snake! I put each dog on stay were they were in the yard,put a piece of plywood across the snakes neck and sent all of the dogs in the house. It turned out to be a 14" poisnous snake. I still can not believe that there was a snake in my yard! Much less one that could harm one of the kids or dogs. It just reinforced to me that obedience is important and has just made me more diligent.

It doesn't sound like she is afraid of you, but maybe reaching down to pick her up isn't something she likes. They do have their crazy personalities, ya'know! :P Rhia sleeps with me at night, loves to lay on my lap or next to me, but HATES being picked up. She views it as a game. I go to pick her up and she backs up, then runs across the house. It's the chase that's fun. :) Try sitting down or sitting on the ground at her level so she can get to you at her own will. If she starts to want to be chased, ignore her until she comes to you. Rhia runs as soon as I pick up her walking harness, but if I sit on the couch for a few minutes she will come back and get on my lap, all ready to go!

I dropped a glass baking dish (I just shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen..cos things always go bad... :rolleyes:) and it shattered all over the place. I called ZoE to me so I could pick her up and she wouldn't get hurt. But you know it...she ran right through all the shards of broken glass. We're sooo lucky she didn't get a single cut! But it gave me one helluva scare!

After that experience, I realized she need to learn to come when called. So for weeks, I started carrying kibble around in the pockets of whatever I was wearing and randomly throughout the day I would call her to me. If she came when called, she got a couple of pieces of kibble. It worked great!
***only downside...you have no idea how many kibbles I found in my laundry from not properly checking pockets...:p

Patience. Bella chooses when she wants to come. It drives me nuts. I've never had a dog to do that. But I keep working with her. We've had for a 1 1/2 years now.
With the petting her, I read in a Yorkie book to start petting them under their little chins. Usually when I pet Bella on top of the head she bows out like I'm gonna beat her. It bothers me when she does that, then I read that and it's much better, she doesn't bow out now. Then I move to the top of her head.