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Originally Posted by Lou  All four of mine are different. Adie loves to be picked up and will turn around to make it easier. Cassie (the shih tzu) will go up on her hind legs facing you and ask to be picked up like you would pick up a child. Then she throws herself backward so you hold her like a baby. (I don't let anyone pick her up because if this.) Gracie (our rescue) cowers. Skeeter usually hates being picked up and heads the other way if he thinks you are going to try. I always thought it was because he is so (ahem) husky that he doesn't like the pressure it puts on his belly. He even anticipates it and starts grunting before you actually touch him. LOL
Now I have to rethink this. Could it really be yorkie thing - are they afraid of heights because they are so far away from the ground? |
I think it is more of the height of the person rather than the height from the ground. But, that is just my two cents.