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Originally Posted by Miao  I believe it's because they're part cat. My cat has always done this. Yorkies seem to share too many traits with the cat family to be a coincidence.  |
Ooooh...interesting thought! I have commented several times to my husband that Taffy has some mannerisms of a cat (I don't dwell on it too much because I don't like cats...it's a childhood thing). She bats at things with her paws and sometimes her stretches remind me of a cat's.
She also loves to amuse herself lying on her back and "juggling" one of those stuffingless toys around with her four paws. This is a hoot to watch but if we forget and chuckle aloud, she stops and gives us one of her "disgusted" teenage looks...LOL
However, one thing totally unlike a cat is that she is NOT light on her feet. She only weighs around 5 pounds but honestly she can sound like a herd of elephants when she's bouncing around on the carpet. It is amazing that a little fluff of fur can make that much noise!
The craziest thing she has begun to do would scare us to death if we didn't know what was going on... When she sees a housefly, she jerks and twists in the directions of its movements and actually looks like she is convulsing. If we hadn't happened to catch her "first" encounter with the monster housefly, we would have been racing to the vet's office for sure!
If we could capture some of this on video, it could probably outsell the best Vegas comedian, I think. She is the most entertaining pet I have ever encountered but if she catches us laughing "at" her, we get a huff of displeasure (which of course makes us laugh even harder)...LOL