Three Easy Tricks to Teach a Yorkie
To teach your Yorkie tricks even easy ones you need to have some small reward treats, be in a quiet suitable place and keep the training sessions to 10 – 15 minutes or your Yorkie will start to get bored, remember when they gets something right lots of praise and a reward treat, just be careful not to get him over excited or he will loose concentration.
Once your Yorkie has mastered the paw trick this one should be very easy to learn and with just a few sessions
Getting your Yorkie to give you his paw, first get your Yorkie to sit, then as you say the word ‘paw’ take your dogs paw in your hand, give the Yorkie a treat, repeat this, after a few times do not take his paw so quickly, say the word, count to one then take it, you should notice he is bringing his paw up as you say the word if he does not go back to saying it at the same time, do it a few more times then slow your response again. After 2 or 3 sessions most dogs pick this one up quite happily.
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The high five, like a lot of tricks the high five is a progression of an earlier trick, in this cast the paw trick. Hold a treat in your fingers and raise your hand slightly higher than you would for the paw trick. You Yorkie will think you want to do the paw trick and will reach for the treat with his paw as we taught him earlier, as he reaches up you say “high five” and give him the treat. Once your Yorkie has mastered the paw trick this one should be very easy to learn and with just a few sessions he will be doing it on hand signal rather than voice control. For a gentle hoop exercise, start with the bottom of the hoop on the ground so your Yorkie can walk through. Use short, reward-based sessions and let your dog progress at a comfortable pace.
Sit your Yorkie on one side of a hoola hoop, get the dogs attention on your hand on the other side of the hoop take a treat in your hand and give the Yorkie the command to release him from the sit, at first he may attempt to go around or under the hoop, if this happens start again, your Yorkie wants the treat and will soon learn that going around or under does not get it so he will soon start going through it, when he does say hoopla and give him the treat.
Begin by rewarding your Yorkie for walking through a ground-level hoop. Do not use a person’s waist height as a target for a small dog. Puppies have developing bones and joints, so ask your veterinarian before introducing raised jumps or strenuous exercise. See the AKC’s ground-level hoop-training steps and VCA Animal Hospitals’ guidance on puppy exercise.
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