Being a new yorkie parent is an adventure!
You’ve brought home your new yorkie and settled your fur baby into their loving new home – they’re even feeling right at home… Enough to shred the mail as soon as it drops through the mail slot. What could have happened to your sweet new yorkie?
The Terrier Factor is what happened! Something that many of us try to forget when picking out our furry new family members is that Yorkie is only part of their name, it’s really Yorkshire Terrier in full and that means a whole mess of fun for new Yorkie parents. Terriers are many dogs all rolled into one, as any Yorkie parent knows.
How can you encourage the good Yorkie and discourage the holy terror terrier factor?
Keep them mentally challenged
A thinking terrier is a busy terrier and won’t dig holes in your mattress while you’re at work.
Make them part of the family and be sure they know their place in it.
To avoid arguments down the road. This goes for human and four-legged family members alike.
Burn ’em out.
A tired terrier is also a happy terrier without the extra energy to destroy the house.
Give them something to chase besides the cat.
Yorkies were bred to be ratters and they need to go hunting every so often (even a laser or a ball), it’s in their DNA.
Treat them like your child and love them like there’s no tomorrow.
When you love a terrier you never know what adventures the world will take them on today.
Owning a Yorkie from puppyhood is one of the greatest gifts you may ever be given. Cherish every day, but remember that owning a Yorkshire Terrier is truly becoming a fur parent, with all the joy and responsibility that parenthood brings with it. Take a firm but gentle hand and watch your fuzzy little monkey grow into a grand lady or gentleman right before your eyes.
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Hi, My new Yorkie puppy has an appetite of note. He literally gobbles everything in sight. We now need to keep all food away from him 🙁
He evens grabs food out of our hands or strangers hands.
What to do?
Lynn – which is also my name. The Yorkie is my favorite breed of dog. They are absolutely adorable in every way. I babysit from time to time my friend’s 4 yr old Yorkie and love her to death. When it comes to eating, she would eat everything in site and more. So when we are having a meal, I sneak some of her kibbles and bits beside my plate, dip a little in yogurt and give it to her. She thinks it’s from my plate and eats it everytime.
My Yorkie, Scotty love to get hold of things he should not (reading glasses, pens, toliet paper. I try to make sure to not leave these thing around. When he gets something he should not have he wants me to chase him. He has a death grip on it and will not let up. My husband smacks him. I can usually trick him with a treat. Any suggestion?
I have 2 yorkies…inecmale and one female ..they are impossible to potty train! even pee pad train…the male marks everywhere….im at my wits end!
I have a male Yorkie and trained him very easily. He rings a bell when he wants to go out.
Mine I bought from a young Mother she had toddler’s an another coming so I got Loki at 11 months the best fur baby ever my only problem he’s I don’t know what to call it.he myalgia have anxiety issues he will be in the kitchen an something falls an he freaks trying to get out of the way. I guess the toddler’s have Loki stressed still that way today. Don’t know what to do about that.Any advise.
My sweet little angel (3 month old boy) turns into a crazy man in bed. He is with me all day in my office and is friendly and great with my patients. At bedtime, he Jumps all around, tries to play, bite, barks, play growls, etc. in the bed with me Play nipping pretty much controlled during day. During this period of craziness he will still respond to the sit command! If I take him out of bed, he cries hysterically and then jumps up on bed himself
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks so very much