How do you brush your yorkie's teeth?
 

When I put toothpaste on the brush she just opens her mouth and I brush while she "chews" on the bristles.. but is this the proper way? I've been seeing online that people actually get the mouth to open.. but she won't stay put for me to do that, unless shes laying on her back but no one brushes their teeth on their back lol. How do you brush your fur babies teeth? She is 11 weeks old:)

Its great that your starting her young so she can get used to it. As long as your using a enzymatic toothpaste like CET you just need to get in to there and it will work on the teeth. Callie will let me open her mouth and brush he teeth like you would your own teeth.

When ZoE was a lil puppy, I just put a little toothpaste on my finger and rubbed her teeth, so she got used to it. I did this for weeks before I introduced the toothbrush, and by then she was used to me messing with her mouth.

It's great that you're starting so early :)

Yep, I'm using the vanilla mint CET toothpaste and she gets so happy when she see's the toothbrush!! and thank you, I know these baby teeth will fall out but it still makes me happy to know she's going to bed with fresh and clean teeth lol:D

I brush Tibbe's teeth with him reclining at an angle on his back in my lap. He's a tiny dog and there is no way to access his tiny mouth except sit at a kind of incline with my legs bent at the knees on the couch and position him so that he's reclining in my lap but so that he's still mostly upright and the toothpaste-filled spital won't run down his throat into his tummy. I hold his mouth open with my middle finger and thumb while I brush so that he isn't biting on the bristles and not allowing them to actually brush the teeth and gums.

He fights slightly but not that much as I get it over in about one and one-half minutes of brushing as more than that builds up so much spital and drool he will start to gurgle or gag. Still, some days I have to allow him up half way through and then reposition him and finish. Believe me, I had to work up to all of this ultra slowly and very little at a time with him fighting a lot at first so we would keep those initial sessions very, very, very short and didn't get a lot of good brushing done and he got lots of praise and treats afterward and a big celebratory "party" with us dancing around and hand-clapping, etc., once we were done. Eventually, he came to understand it wasn't all that bad, that I didn't brush hard, kept it short and he got lots of praise, treats and happiness once it was all over so he learned to accept it all as best he can. He does very well now though at first it was almost impossible to believe he'd come to accept it as wild as he was when I first got him.