In my opinion, there is never any possible excuse for smacking a white yorkie for bad heel work. If you continue to jerk a white yorkie in the right manner, you must win; that is why its important to train your white yorkie.

The time it takes depends on the sharpness of your jerks and your skill as a handler. Having got your white yorkie walking better on the lead – you must now teach him to sit every time you stop.

This obviates any chance of the white yorkie causing you to be pulled into the road – should you suddenly stop on seeing a vehicle coming, for as you stop, however suddenly, your white yorkie sits.

Eventually your white yorkie becomes so well-trained that he doesn’t need the command ’sit’ as you stop; he knows what to do. But this high degree of training will not be brought about in a week by the average white yorkie owner without experience.

White yorkie training does not have to be painful to the owner, nor the animal. To get your white yorkie to sit quickly and easily -your lead should be just of the right length, so that as you intend stopping you should place your lead, which is held in the right hand, up and over your right hip.

This anchors the white Yorkie’s head in an upward position and helps you to push him to the ’sit’ with the free left-hand. This movement is done in ‘one-two’ time. Up with the right hand on the one, and down with the left hand on the two.

Now the correct position of the left hand should be this: your four fingers are facing away from your leg, and should be placed over the white Yorkie’s back, so that the two middle fingers are in his flank just in front of the hind leg.

The thumb should now be facing towards your own left leg and should also be placed lightly over the white Yorkie’s back. On your command ’sit’, you should, of course, raise your right hand over your right hip and smartly pull the white yorkie down to the ’sit’ while with the left-handed pull; your white yorkie will have got ahead of you and will then be sitting in front of you.

This is bad, because you would trip over him as you began to walk again. The secret of a tidy ’sit’ beside you is speed; as you stop quickly, pull firmly with the left hand, and the right hand goes to your hip.