Akc Recommends That You Train Your Dog
March 17, 2009
Hopefully the risk is small of a stranger poisoning your dog’s food. However, it doesn?t hurt to prevent such an occurrence by teaching your yorkie dog to refuse food from strangers.
To train the yorkie my mom gave to the dog his favorite food to sneak. She rewarded the dog with great praise and gentle coaxing. The Great Dane enjoyed the attention mom was giving him.
A rubber bone is useful, or a hard old dog biscuit, or even an old slipper if that is all you have in the moment. As soon or even before you notice the yorkie puppy chewing on valuable household furniture, give the puppy plenty of safe items to chew on.
After my mother scolded mildly the yorkie dog while training him to resist sneaking food at the dinner table, she opened his mouth and took the meat away. She then gave it back, with much praise. I consider that a well-trained dog should drop what it is eating immediately on command.
On the subject of chewing, there are dogs that love to snatch food. Maybe this desire originates from the urge to chew. Dogs have amazing teeth that are meant to be kept sharp. Hopefully if your dog loves to snatch food he wouldn’t bite in response to someone trying to get the food back.
Chew Training There are dogs that chew on everything in the house, and which one daren’t leave alone a minute in a room without finding there is no longer a newspaper to read, or your slippers to wear. Training puppies can be quite hard at first.
With persistence and form, training puppies can actually make these puppies even more trainable for the future. This means we dog owners stop the puppy’s impulse to chew on everything.
Sometimes after a yorkie’s adult teeth surface around six months the yorkie’s baby teeth will still remain. In this case the yorkie will appear to have two rows of teeth, like a shark! Well, not quite like a shark, but the teeth look rather interesting. Most yorkies’ baby teeth will fall out while they eat. The teeth are so small that the entire process will go unnoticed, even by the yorkie. Often the yorkie’s teeth will swallowed with the food! This is not harmful to your yorkie.
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