I live in a farmhouse and each spring and fall little field mice find there way into my home. I, being an animal lover, use live traps for them and set them free 2 miles from my home. Well that is no small feat in this house. In the morning, all 6 dogs make a beeline from the bedroom to the kitchen. It is a mad dash, each yorkie to himself. They all run to the 4 areas where I set up these traps and sniff and listen. Then they have the scent or sound and go nuts. It is unreal the barking and growling that goes on. I do not even need to check most of the time, I just go to where the pack is and Mickey is there in the trap. Then I have to "fight" my way through these "ratters" to get the mouse out of the house and me in one piece. The dogs are jumping and trying to get it.
One time and one time only a mouse had the unfortunate demise by A.J. the one in red on my avatar. She caught one that was bold enough to come into the main part of the kitchen and she was on it in 2 seconds flat. She picked it up and shook it to death before I even saw what she had
. I called exterminators but they do the sticky traps and those are inhumane to me. I chose these humane live ones. She is the one that goes in the yard digging at small holes for chipmunks and leads the pack on the hunt. But they all join in by standing by waiting for one to pop out and try to catch it.
My dad told me that because of the foundation my home is on (rocks) there is not a solution to stop them from coming without putting a whole new foundation on a 110 year old house.
So I think that function and beauty are important in the Yorkie. Why can they not have both? I mean they are terriers and were bred to do a function. Over the years they have been bred to become the beauties that they are now but that ratting instinct and terrier traits should still be in that little spunky pretty package.