I love the name Goliath. My yorkie is also quite skittish. He is a velcro dog (stuck to me at all times), but if I reach for him and he didn't initiate the contact, he skitters away. I think he is in constant fear of being bathed, brushed or dressed!
He doesn't want to be held, he just wants to lay on his humans. The only person who can actually hold him for any length of time and him not try to wriggle free is my 90 year old deaf and half blind grandmother. We laugh that it keeps both of them out of trouble...he isnt marking up the house and she isnt trying to join conversations she can't hear!
Yorkies are neat little creatures and I wouldn't take a million dollars for mine.
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