Understand a small dog with big opinions
Connect terrier tendencies, companionship, and barking with practical expectations for daily life.
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SmartPaws Breed Books
The SmartPaws Yorkshire Terrier Guide
How to Choose, Raise, Train, Feed, and Care for a Happy, Healthy Yorkshire Terrier
Understand the terrier behind the silky coat, with practical guidance on training, barking, grooming, feeding, and everyday small-dog care.
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- Authors
- John T. Choi and Taylin G. Choi
- Publisher
- Bluewell Publishing
- Edition
- First edition
- Paperback
- 164 pages · 6 × 9 inches
- Paperback ISBN
- 979-8-952548-04-6
About the book
Practical guidance, with the breed kept in view
Yorkshire Terriers bring curiosity, close companionship, and a lively terrier personality to a small package. This guide helps prospective and current owners connect those traits with realistic household routines, whether welcoming a puppy or an adult rescue.
Explore 21 SmartPaws Trait Scores, twelve everyday training cues, and a flexible 12-week foundation plan. Care chapters bring together coat and dental routines, feeding, preventive veterinary visits, and senior-life changes, supported by checklists and questions for your veterinary team.
What makes it useful
From breed traits to everyday decisions
Build skills at your dog's pace
Use twelve everyday cues, a flexible 12-week plan, and ideas for walks, scent games, tricks, and comfortable time alone.
Make care routines manageable
Plan coat and topknot care, dental habits, feeding, veterinary questions, and support through the senior years.
What the book covers
The book follows the ownership journey from choosing or adopting through training, everyday care, health planning, and the senior years.
- Breed traits and household fit
- Responsible breeder and rescue selection
- Preparing your home
- Twelve everyday training cues
- A flexible 12-week training plan
- Barking, enrichment, and time alone
- Coat, topknot, dental, and feeding routines
- Preventive veterinary care and senior support
Continue with SmartPaws
The book is the foundation. The website stays current.
Use the companion breed profile, training guidance, food research, product comparisons, and printable resources as your dog’s needs change.