 What Sounds Excite Your Yorkie?
Annie is only 3 1/2 months old and already she has a sound that makes her come running! I like to buy those little individual serving ice cream cartons. When she hears me scraping the bottom/sides, she comes a running. She knows she will get to lick the spoon of the last few melted drops of ice cream. I can't let her have too much -- don't want to upset her tummy or spoil her appetite for kibble (although I am not sure you could spoil this girl's appetite!) but a few drips for her to lick from the spoon can't hurt. She sure does love it! She knows her name too. She likes to go sleep on my bed when I am busy and she can't have my lap. There is a ramp in there for the dogs to get up and down. She will be sleeping up on my bed and hear me mention her name on the other side of the house -- and here she comes, flying down that hall, sure a treat must be getting handed out! I just love this little girl! What joy she has brought to our home!
When my Jack Russell hears the pool cleaner come on, she goes half crazy. She loves to go out and stalk that pool cleaner as it moves around the pool. It's tail occasionally flips up out of the water and she tries to catch it. We go through a lot of foam end pieces for that tail! This is one more reason mine can't go out alone.
Rattle a treat bag and all of mine come running. They seem to know the exact sound of those bags too! I can rattle potato chips bags, cookie or cracker bags, nothing. But rattle a treat bag and here they come!
The word OUTSIDE is also an instant excitement! They start jumping, running to the door and making circles. You would think they hadn't been outside all day the way they react. Never fails to excite them.
They know my son's name too. When he is home and I ask "Where's Dustin?" they all start looking for him and then jump all over him when they find him.
Before the hurricane took out all of our trees, we used to get squirrels in the yard. All of the dogs loved to chase those squirrels. They couldn't catch them but they never tired of trying. If we said the word "squirrel" they would all get excited and go half crazy waiting for me to open the door. I sort of miss that but since I found squirrels are a big carrier of fleas, I am glad they are gone.
Are there other specific sounds/words that your dogs know and understand? Do they get excited about any sound in particular? |