[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by C C Kent

Real men aren't afraid to love Yorkies. I don't need a "man's" dog to ride in the back of my pickup truck. I would rather brush a nice coat than try to get it off of my couch and I don't play for the other team, not that there's anything wrong with that (think Seinfeld) but big dogs take more room and leave enormous, uhhh.....monuments? I like the idea that I can have three of them in my lap and still have room left over. The neighbors bring their children to our house on nice days to see if we're outside playing with our dogs. We have made lots of new friends simply because a beautiful puppy is hard to resist. And to those husbands that discourage your wives from owning one,......or five. Quit being a "stick in the mud" and let her live a little. They're as close to having children that never grow up, wait that's not a good example cause we all know one of those. They are like children that stay in that cute stage all of their lives. We also have a miniature pinscher who rules the backyard with an iron fist, unless of course it thunders and then he conducts a thorough inspection of the inside of my daughters closet.

Life is too short to let other people decide who I should be.

So I'll be walking tall, shoulders back, chin high,......with my gorgeous little girl....yes she is....yes she is....ohh come on we all baby talk to them when nobody's looking.

Great answer. Maybe because I didn't get a small dog until later in life (47), but it honestly doesn't phase me what people think. I'm secure in my masculinity. And I honestly feel a lot of people who say otherwise aren't.

Originally, I probably did compensate by making sure Eddie was a smart dog. I put him through a lot of obedience training and agility. If anyone ever asked "What good is he?" I'd run him through some of his tricks and shut them up. He's smarter than most big dogs I know.

But then I got Jack. Four pounds. A yapper. He's now 12. Everything skeptics would say they dislike about little dogs. And I love him every bit as much as I love Eddie. I had two relatives at a recent family gathering tease me about Jack. I didn't even give them the satisfaction of trying to defend him. If they don't understand as adults, they never will. It's their issue, not mine. Besides, their big dogs are invariably fat and underexercised. I've found it much more practical to have a little dog that needs less exercise than to try to have a healthy big dog.