Yorkie training really pays all long the line. If you want to train your yorkie to walk nicely on and off the lead, you must first have a choke chain of the required length, and type. The thin small links on some that are on the market are quite useless for training a yorkie kindly.

The broader the link, the less likelihood of any damage to the Yorkie’s coat, and one can get more purchase on the yorkie with a road chain than a narrow one.

Lengths of these chains vary. Small yorkies like yorkies need sixteen-to eighteen-inch lengths. Bigger ones, up to twenty-eight inches. Tiny tots need the finer and smaller chains still, although I consider that a very small yorkie need not have a choke chain at all.

Next, you take hold of both rings at each end in different hands, and with one hand held high above the other slowly drop through the lower ring, until both rings meet each other.

Now that the chain is correctly threaded, put it on your yorkie so that the chain pulls in an upward direction when on the Yorkie’s neck; in this way the chain immediately loosens when you release the pull on the lead.

If you put the chain on so that it pulls downwards when on the yorkie – it does not free itself but stays tight even though your lead is loose.

This means that you are punishing your yorkie when should not be punished, and spoils the whole idea of letting your yorkie realize that as soon as he stops pulling, he is quickly comfortable again.

This choke chain is in no way cruel; the only effect it has on the yorkie is ti quickly gives up the idea of pulling and becomes a nicely behaved animal.

Now that you have presumably attached your choke chain in the right manner, the correct length of chain should be such that when threaded through itself it has a couple of inches or so loose to spare; that means that it is easily put on over the Yorkie’s head. NEVER try to force on too small a choke chain for this could hurt or frighten the yorkie.

It is vitally necessary to have the lead loose when held in the right hand, as your left hand is free to do any correcting of the yorkie that is necessary.