Housebreaking is the first type of training that owners of Yorkshire Terriers concern themselves with when they bring home a new puppy or two. This does require patience and it also means that you need to have urine cleaner on hand to get rid of the odor of dog urine because accidents will happen.
A Yorkshire Terrier will not go potty where it sleeps, so you can keep the puppy in a crate when you are not around to supervise its movements. One thing you should never do when potty training a puppy is to give it free rein of the house.
There are two main elements to housetraining Yorkshire Terriers. These are confining them to an area where they will not go in the wrong places and giving them constant access to the areas where you do want them to go. Confinement means that you have a certain section of the house where you do allow the dog and it also means that you have to be where the Yorkshire Terrier puppy is at all times. This is so you can learn the specific movements that it makes when it is about to pee. You will notice that it will sniff the floor and go around in circles. This is the time to take it to the place you have set aside for the puppy to go potty.
With the small Yorkshire Terriers, most owners use pads on the floor for them to pee and poo on. When you notice that the puppy seems as if it needs to go, you should take it to the pad and keep it there until it does its business. 
Then you need to praise the puppy profusely and give it a puppy treat so that it will eventually learn that this is the only place where it is allowed to do this.
Once the potty training phase is over, you can enroll the puppy in obedience classes so that it will learn to respond to commands, such as Sit, Stay, and Come. You also have to use the name you chose for the puppy whenever you talk to it so that it will learn its name.
Yorkshire Terriers love to play and they also love to chew. You need to puppy proof your home before you bring these puppies home by putting anything you don't want broken up out of the way. You need to hide electrical cords and telephone cords so that the puppy will not chew on them and drapery cords also need to be hidden. In addition to chewing on these, the puppy could get entangled and could strangle. When you see your Yorkshire Terriers chewing on something they are not supposed to, you need to take it away and give them a chew toy to teach them the right things to chew. Training Yorkshire Terriers is fun and rewarding, which makes the Yorky a favorite breed.
