I have always known that yorkies are gifted as gaurds...Once about a year ago a friend of mine were walking our dogs pretty late at night on a popular trail in Seattle. It has lots of traffic all day so we did not think anything of it to walk at night. Well we were in the city so we also did not think about it when we got to an area that was not so well lit that we saw a transient man walking/staggering pretty slowly. We continued talking and walking and passed the man, but Bruce kept stopping and turning around and barking his head off and would stand on his hind legs and show his teeth...So I naturally tried to speed us far ahead of the poor guy thinking Bruce was being a jerk...He kept doing it, and then my friend and I noticed no matter how far ahead we got the guy was right behind us...Bruce kept on trying to alert us something wasn't right, so I picked him up and we kept walking briskly...Then we heard a large thud, the man had a piece of pipe up his sleeve that fell out. TO this day we think he was going to attack us but Bruce kept making us look back and we did not get distracted enough for him to have an opportunity...Yorkies are excellent watch dogs!!! |