If your yorky assumes an oversubmissive posture when approaching you after being called, treat it as an emotional problem. If it is just a matter of habit, you have to make your yorky at least look happier about coming.

Pick him up the minute he comes to you or simply grasp him immediately when he gets near you, and hold him in place to give him security while you praise him.

Bring his head upward toward you by always chucking him under the chin. A treat or a favorite toy held high in the air will also force his attention up.

Some dogs run to everyone but the person who called them, as if looking for protection. This of course makes everyone think that the owner giving the command – namely you – is a complete tyrant. To overcome this trait, you must enlist the aid of the same people to whom your yorky runs.

To teach your yorky to come only to the person who calls him, make him associate something unpleasant with everyone else. Once you’re sure your yorky knows the command, take him into a familiar room where a couple of family members or friends – three people at most – sit around casually.

Call your yorky to you. When he starts running from one person to another, they should give him no sympathy, but ignore him. If he persists, they should reprimand and chase him.

If several people throw things at your dog when he disregards a call to come, he will run fro protection to the person calling him. Equally, if not more efficient, is to have each person he goes to ignore him completely.

If there are two or more owners, there is often a problem of one interfering with the other. In this case, each one of you should work the yorky separately at first; the second owner must ignore or chase off the yorky once the other gives the command.

Your yorky must learn to go only to the person who calls.

Some dogs come so slowly that they appear to be in slow motion. Lack of praise while the yorky is learning is often the reason. People get so carried away by the dog’s obedience that they forget to let the yorky know they are pleased.

Be sure to praise your yorky to get him coming happily and excitedly.