Chihuahua Training is Easy!
You may be wondering if Chihuahua training is easy or hard. Well, from our experience it is very easy! Yoda was a breeze to train since we knew what to do from the start. We tried not to promote unwanted behavior by making common mistakes. There is a wonderful book that I know can help you with Chihuahua training efforts.
If you've already managed to raise a dog with behavioral problems (this is easy too!) you can correct them in a very natural way.
There is one book that I highly recommend that goes well beyond what most dog trainers talk about and gets into the heart and how your dog feels about and sees life. Chihuahua training really is easy!
In the book The Dog Listener 
by Jan Fennell, you'll find that dogs naturally feel like they still belong to a pack and how they want to interract with you as part of the pack.
Yoda is so happy he doesn't have to worry about leading the pack anymore since he's no longer "top dog"...unless of course we change our behavior in a way that promotes him up to leader of the pack again. But then it's easy enough to change positions again by performing your newly learned Chihuahua training methods!
You can try some simple things yourself to see how they work, like making it look like you've eaten some food first and then giving your dog his/her food to eat. Then, if after 5 minutes or so the dog hasn't eaten the food, take it away. This lets the dog know that you're in control of the food supply...a classic top dog role!
Another thing to try is to ignore (this can be very hard with Chihuahuas since they're so cute!) your dog for the first 5 minutes after you come home.
The top dog never makes a fuss over the pack when returning home. But it's OK to worry about and make a fuss over your Chi when it returns home (like after going outside to "do it's duty").
It's amazing to see the difference in Yoda's behavior when we follow a few simple rules of how to live life in a [Chihuahua] dog pack. Chihuahua training becomes easy!
If you're like me (I'm not known to be a patient shopper...I want it now!) you'll want to go out and pick up the book at your local bookstore today, but if you're more patient and want to save some money the links above will take you to Amazon where you can get a new or used one at a discount. 
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