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Originally Posted by SnowWa Oversharer -- It's not a "terrier thing." It's a "small dog" thing. I would like to think it is only terriers, but in my neighborhood and among my friends, we have a PooPom, a Maltese, a daschund, a Yorkie, a Pom, and a couple other small dogs. Not one of them comes when you call them. They do turn around and look - but then just go on doing whatever they want to do.
And, as I mentioned earlier - everyone that has a large dog (larger breed) calls them and they run right to them. And - I want to add - not one of them trained their dogs to come....they have just all done it since they were pups...never a problem! Go figure!
My pup (6 months old) got out the front door tonight (on his own) for the first time. And - because there were so many people coming in - he just followed them - thank God! I can see me out chasing my dog in the dark. He's a dark color and doesn't show up!!
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I was refering to the well known terrier stubborness. Saying it's a small dog thing is a little too open ended for my taste. I have (kinda) a dachshund and I lived with a chi/pom they both came automatically. The small dog thing I think comes from people's tendencies to pamper there small dogs and not treat them like big dogs. Big dogs are rough and hardy so we treat them that way. Small dogs can be very fragile, so we tend to pamper them. My sister has a GIANT lab and she never comes when called and my father has a australian cattledog who only comes once in awhile. Terriers are known for there independent and stubborn nature and I think it makes more sense to attribute the well noted behaviour of these yorkies to that as opposed to saying it's just because they're small.
Then again, we could both be wrong! Dogs never fail to surprise.
