Start teaching good habits as soon as you get your puppy home.

First of all a better understanding of what your puppy is doing and their environment will help you to evaluate how to change things to improve behavior.

Preventing unwanted behavior often can be resolved in providing for the needs of the puppy. Adequate physical exercise is a very important consideration, especially as the puppy reaches five to six months of age. At this time the puppy is reaching teenage life.

If you don’t take the appropriate time and effort to exercise your puppy they will resort to often destructive behavior. Simply allowing your puppy to romp by itself in the backyard is not enough stimulation for them to satisfy their need to exercise and play. Keep In mind that whatever your puppies needs are you run the risk of making a social mess out of them by confining them to the back yard or kennel for a long length of time.

Mental Activity is the key to proper stimulation for appropriate behavior training. If you don’t provide appropriate games to play with your puppy they will invent their own such as; how many flowers can I dig up in 20 minutes, or how many chair legs can I chew on.

It is a fact of life that puppies will chew. And proper toys are going to be essential to their learning appropriate behavior. It is your responsibility as their owner to direct their chewing to acceptable objects and away from family possessions.

You will need to provide your puppy with many different types of safe toys to chew on, until you find what they really like. Then you will need to reinforce this and make it more rewarding to chew on their toys rather then anything else in your house.

Here are some Basics to Behavioral Training.

During the first few weeks you will want to introduce your puppy to a leash. At this time you can work on certain commands as heel, sit, stay, and release. If you can work with your pup for 15 minutes twice a day you will see some progress. You can train more, but be careful not to over due it! Remember your puppy is still a baby.

On your first walk, just let your Yorkie puppy sniff around, he will start pulling on the leash, and as he hits the end of the leash give him a little jerk and say No! Now as he plays around he'll start to get excited and may go charging forward and hit the end of the leash full force. Give him a little louder NO! as he hits the end of the leash. (using a harness will be easier on your puppy and won't cause injury as easily) Don't worry if he is not catching on, just concentrate on telling him No. By the second session of the day he should be catching on. And if he turns around and comes back to you praise him and give him a treat.

Keep this pace up for a week and add his name when you are calling him. He will certainly be paying more attention. Introducing a new command when he starts pulling away from you call out Easy! and gently pull on the leash. If he responds by letting up or turning and coming back towards you praise him. If his response is negative use the command No as before. And keep trying this new command.

In training your Yorkshire Terrier correct behavior it is essential to start with the basics here. These small steps can be used with many areas where you want your Yorkie to respond the way you want. One other effective method is ignoring your pup. If his behavior is not suitable, say for instance he is running away from you on the leash and you have called out the word No, and he is not letting up, turn away and look at something else. Eventually he will want your attention and will come back at this time don't over due the praise and reward, just respond with good boy and pick up where you left off. And remember that when you are training and he is responding well lavish with praise. Not only telling him what a wonderful dog, but pet and adore him.

Young puppies seem to have split personalities, sometimes acting the role of a perfect angel, and at other times taking on the personality of a little devil. Puppies like children are quite innocent little beings whose normal behaviors tend to get them into trouble when not given adequate guidance and supervision. Please spend time with your new puppy and teach him how to behave properly.