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Originally Posted by Teresa Ford

Yorkies Senses are are better than ours. Most Yorkies have excellent hearing and will alert at the softest sound. I would say their sense of smell is just so so in the dog world, but compared to you or me it is amazing. What they can taste is about the same as what we can taste, sweet, sour, salty,and biter. But things that smell or taste revolting to us, can be quite yummy to them. Kitty poo, dead mice and ucky stuff in the grass is fun to roll in or snack on if you are a Yorkie. Even with hair flopping in their eyes, they see quite well, in color and their ability to see movement is highly developed. Sensitivity to touch is simular to ours. Their hair and whiskers are very sensitive. Some Yorkies also feel atmospheric pressure change, and earth vibrations. Some have been noted to feel or sense volcanos before the eruptions, earth quakes, storms, floods, electrical black outs and miles away disturbances. Maybe they still can listen to the voice of the earth.
I have received stories about Yorkies that seem to know something is there when we humans can not see, hear or feel anything. Do they see ghosts ? Spirits ? Who knows for sure ? Maybe they were reacting to a faraway siren we can not hear or a baby crying two blocks away, maybe even a tiny earth tremor miles below our feet.
Perhaps curiosity isn't really a sense but more a personality thing passed down through the ages. Being a breed that is cherished for it's child like traits and intelligence, Yorkies thrive on companionship. They want to be apart of everything we do. The who,why, what of life fascinates them. If I want my Yorkies to come, all I have to do is pretend to dig in the grass, or cock my head like I am listening or move my head like I saw something and there they are.

Oh, Teresa, you are SO describing every Yorkie I have ever had and now Tibbe. They ARE personal dogs and so attuned to their human(s). I've had several different breeds as pets and lots of rescues but no breed as personally interested in me as my Yorkies. Once I got Scotty and found out how they are, I was sold on this breed for me. They are such fun to live with. Tibbe is a laugh a minute some days. His attitude about everything just kills me. He's so sassy to me when he disagrees with me. He'll go ahead and do it what I'm asking him because he's well trained but oh, does he let me know about it sometimes. Unless I mean business - you know, am really no nonsense as when I've got to hurry to go somewhere or there could be danger. But he reads me so well he knows when he can sass back or take a stand and 99% of the time, I love that 'tude in a Yorkie.