Once you actually have your teacup yorkie, overindulging and over-domineering him are equally bad. Upon reaching sexual maturity, permissively raised teacup yorkie pups often become difficult to handle because they have always been allowed to do as they want.

On the other hand, too early and too relentless training may lead him to have overexcited, nervous reactions to the least little thing.

Your teacup yorkie may reflect your personality as well. If you are high-strung and need tranquilizers to get through the day, your dog may react to your frenetic pace and become nervous himself.

Most dogs will react to a situation as they observe their owners do. Therefore, be sure your teacup yorkie dog is not mirroring your own fears and dislikes. If you are afraid of thunder, for instance, your teacup yorkie will be; and nervousness around certain people or new places can infect your dog.

Any traumatic experience, such as being too close to a loudspeaker, accidentally stepped on, attacked by another dog, or frightened by a large truck can bring on a generalized phobia about that situation.

It can be so upsetting that your teacup yorkie may refuse to go to any area that resembles the place where he was traumatized, or will at least show signs of fear.

Thus, an unpleasant journey as a puppy might cause your teacup yorkie to whine fearfully a few years later when he is put in a shipping crate or a car. This fearful reaction to things similar to the original trauma might crop up at any time.

Once a fear reaction has been established, it is extremely long-lasting.

In households with more than one owner, however, everyone has to get together and decide on one method of coping with the teacup yorkie – and stick to it. Otherwise, the teacup dog can become so confused that he doesn’t know how to react, or what is expected of him.

A dog can sometimes become an emotional pawn between two owners, and if they can’t come to an arrangement about working together with the teacup yorkie instead of pulling from either end, the two of them should visit a psychologist to straighten out their problems.

You have to stop using the teacup yorkie as a tool for your own unresolved frustrations, so the teacup yorkie does not exhibit such behaviors which are based on your fears.