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09-05-2014, 06:46 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Delaware
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| Selective memory Can somebody please explain to me why Dutch can remember where every dog lives in our neighbhorhood (she stops in front of their house hoping she sees them so can start barking at them).....but she can't remember where her potty pad is? She can remember the bush where she chased the bird (she stops at the same bush hoping to see the bird)....but she can't remember where her potty pad is. She can remember the exact tree she chased a squirrel up (she stops at the tree hoping to see the squirrel)......but she can't remember where her potty pad is. She can remember in which drawer her treats are in (she stands by the cabinet when she wants a treat).....but she can't remember where her potty pad is. There has got to be a scientific explanation..... |
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09-05-2014, 07:07 PM | #2 | |
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lol! I think your title sums up the issue - selective memory. Yorkies are stubborn. That's what makes them so cute yet frustrating! | |
09-05-2014, 07:25 PM | #3 | |
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True yorkies are stubborn, and one needs a lot of patience with them, look at all the excitement you will have when Dutch finally remembers where the potty pad is. Ya gotta love them yorkies
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09-05-2014, 10:15 PM | #4 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: King County, WA
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| LOL I can't help but laugh, well written! LOL On our walks on local trails, mine will take a sharp left or right, zing, right off of the trail into a dead end whether it be a steep ravine or impenetrable brush.... I originally stacked it up to senility setting in but on following trips, while passing the same location, he would make the exact same 90 degree turn left or right to the same barricade. I just can't figure out "What is he thinking?" LOL |
09-06-2014, 04:29 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Delaware
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| This definitely a battle of wills. But I am going to win this battle. I take her to the potty pad 10 times a day and tell her to go potty. She just looks at me and lays down on them. |
09-06-2014, 04:56 AM | #6 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Canada
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| Dex just drags them around or chews on them. Then pees close to it. For the most part though, he's going outside. I'd just like to get it through his adorable little head that I'd like him to use the pad in case of emergency! I'm worried about the winter time and whether he'll even 'go' outside when the temps get to the -20c mark. |
09-06-2014, 05:04 AM | #7 | |
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09-06-2014, 05:40 AM | #8 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Canada
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| Your original post me me laugh a LOT. There's a house up the street with a wooden play structure, and a big old grey squirrel was sitting on it when we went past. Once. Dex goes INSANE every time we walk past now. It was ONE. TIME. The squirrel is GONE now little buddy, can we PLEASE keep going? Nope... he's determined if only he can get up that slide, he will catch that squirrel! |
09-06-2014, 06:45 AM | #9 | |
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09-08-2014, 06:56 AM | #11 |
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| Yup, that's a Yorkie. It's all about "what's in it for me?" Treats have helped with our potty issue, now we are working on barking. Ali can be barking in the next room and if I say "STOP" she comes running for her treat. She owns me. |
09-08-2014, 08:09 AM | #12 | |
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09-08-2014, 12:52 PM | #13 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Canada
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| Too funny! I've been using his dry kibble as rewards for Dex and he hasn't figured out yet there might be better stuff out there. (Shhhh don't tell!) We've been working on 'sit' and 'down' with him and yesterday the grandkids were over. So the 9 year old was having a blast getting him to sit and then fetch his toy. She was rewarding mainly with 'good boy, Dex' and the odd kibble treat. After a bit we realised the little smartie was running to his food dish every time he was told 'good boy'. He was food rewarding HIMSELF! |
09-08-2014, 01:52 PM | #14 |
YT Addict Join Date: May 2013 Location: Saint Marys, Ga
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| I think selective deafness also needs to added, to all kids, fur or no. Cheers Quad & Gina
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09-08-2014, 01:55 PM | #15 |
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| Memory Isn't that the truth. LOL! |
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