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05-05-2011, 07:00 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| Me and my "guard dog" I was sitting in the living room when ZoE & I both heard something in the breezeway. ZoE, stared towards the kitchen & did a low growl. My heart started beating faster...my Mum was over visiting earlier this evening and I couldn't remember if when she left I locked the door behind her. Now every CSI, Criminal Minds type show is playing in my head and I'm thinking someone is in my breezeway ready to attack. So what do I do? That's right...I scoop up my 5lb dog for protection and go to investigate. Of course, I had (probably on auto-pilot) locked the door after my Mum left. So there I am standing in my breezeway with ZoE under my arm, when it hits me how rediculous it is how much safter I feel with such a tiny dog with me. It reminded me of when we had our last yorkie & lived in a two story house with finished basement, and my kids would scoop up our then yorkie, Chelsea, whenever they had to run upstairs to their rooms or to the basement for something. Anyone else feel German Shepard type protection with their little pup?
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05-05-2011, 07:06 PM | #2 |
Crazy about Kacee! Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas
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| They can scare you to death and make you feel safe at the same time! I remember I had hung a suit on a door across the hall from our room and in the middle of the night my little guard dog started barking at it. I had been sound asleep and that scared me to death! I never hung anything there again.
__________________ Karen Kacee Muffin 1991-2005 Rest in Peace My Little Angel |
05-05-2011, 08:51 PM | #3 |
YT 1000 Club Member | Yorkies are the best little Guard Dogs of any ! Sight, smell, hear, alert and territorial, mine are aware of everything that goes on, around my house. I train mine to alarm and stay back, and are praised highly when they do a good job. The safest thing for them, and the worst thing for an intruder, is to let ME know, and I'll handle it from there.
__________________ Dogs know that you love them, weather you own them or not Mbrs of YT Teapot Club: SNEAKERS since Apr 2011, Ichabod SOON ! RIP my darling Becca. |
05-05-2011, 09:11 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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| That's so true! I had a similar situation to the op's. Last night, someone in my building or in he buildin next door was having some sort of religious activity late last night. Kaji sat right by me, ears perked, and growled each time the neighbors got loud. (which was often, there was even screams coming from he neighbor's apt) Kaji held vigilance all night. He growled, and even barked. Poor pup was exhausted by morning.
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05-06-2011, 04:00 AM | #5 |
Gidget & Sidney's Mom Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: PA
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| My husband says he never slept so soundly as an adult after he moved out on his own before he and I started living under the same roof with my yorkie, Cricket. He says he can rest in peace knowing what good little watch dogs they are. He babysat her when we were dating and I had to go out of town, and he was surprised at how protective they are. Now my little Gidget is not quite as fearless. She will sounds the alarm but then want you to pick her up because she is afraid. She is littler than Cricket, though. Cricket would have fought anything that came through the door uninvited, all 6.5 lb of her! |
05-06-2011, 04:17 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: west long branch, n.j.
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| Bubba is afraid of thunder but Sissy is my guard dog. If we are in bed and she hears a noise, she jumps on top of me to guard me and starts barking. Nothing like being woken from a sound sleep with a dog standing on your chest
__________________ Joan, Bubba and Sissy-BEWARE OF PUPPY MILLS breathe in, breathe out, move on -jb |
05-06-2011, 05:56 AM | #7 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Corpus Christi, Tx USA
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| I 100% trust in my little guardian. My roommate get's home after I'm already asleep and Roxy's shrill bark wakes me up every single time my roommate get's home. Although it gives me a heart attack every time it happens I wouldn't think of trying to reverse that behavior ..I plan to live alone in the near future and I'd rather have an overly sensitive alarm than a confused one
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05-06-2011, 06:02 AM | #8 | |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
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LOL..I think I have a confused one, she hears a noise and gets excited thinking someone is coming to see her..haha..
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05-06-2011, 06:06 AM | #9 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Mine will bark even if I walk in the room at night and startle them. To get them not to do it you have to announce to them you are coming into the room before you enter it
__________________ Chachi's & Jewels Mom Jewels http://www.dogster.com/?132431Chachi http://www.dogster.com/?132427 |
05-06-2011, 06:12 AM | #10 | |
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Sounds like they are royalty..lol..Make me laugh at the thought of you "announcing" yourself..lol..
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05-06-2011, 06:33 AM | #11 |
YT 1000 Club Member | Much of the time, we expect our Males to "stand up" for us, BUT !!!, Female Yorkies are not to be dismissed for their lack bravery or protective natures. My little Becca is a total terror, when it comes to HER space (house/yard/everything), which used to be ours, before she got here ! In a traditional Yorkie Pack, the Females assume a lot of the responsibility for security and other duty's, with the Males sorta laying back, and intervening only when necessary. Additionally, Males have to be quite strong to hold the Alpha roll, Female Yorkies are quite capable. Chachi, HA HA, the same thing has happened to me, except that mine don't have to be startled !
__________________ Dogs know that you love them, weather you own them or not Mbrs of YT Teapot Club: SNEAKERS since Apr 2011, Ichabod SOON ! RIP my darling Becca. |
05-06-2011, 09:30 AM | #12 |
Gidget & Sidney's Mom Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: PA
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| LOL - too funny!!! My friend had a lab/border collie mix that was the same way. She always used to kid around saying "Mitzi will take the burglars around the house and show them where mom hides the good stuff." |
05-06-2011, 10:10 AM | #13 | |
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LOL!! I could see Foxy doing that as well! Haha..too funny!
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05-06-2011, 05:01 PM | #14 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: New York
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| Sammy is a great watch dog too!! I always feel safe when I'm alone because I know he would alert me to anything. I can be asleep and wake up when I hear his deep growl. I tell him to Show Mommy and he will go near the window or the door or wherever he heard the noise. It's usually a cat or a person walking by but it's nice to know that our pups alert us to noises that they hear. |
05-06-2011, 05:36 PM | #15 | |
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__________________ Littlest JakJak We miss you Kaji | |
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