[Tophersmom]

Topher is a strange little one when it comes to barking at things....he barks very little, thank heavens, but sometimes when he does bark, I'm convinced he sees things that I don't!!

Things he barks at that I understand (but it took me a while ):

a strange item on the ottoman/coffeetable used to upset him..lol...he's over that now, thank heavens.

the suitcase on the bedroom floor...he doesn't like the suitcase for some reason and he won't relax until I move it to another room.

people at the door...he barks a couple of times, then stops

Those are the ones I now understand....BUT...
when all is quiet in the house at night, and I'm in the livingroom on the computer, in the dark, he'll stare at one side of the room and bark. I've picked him up and brought him over to the area he's barking at and he gets so upset...it's like he's afraid. I can't for the life of me figure out what he sees...it's freaked me out a couple of times...especially since my son said that perhaps he's seeing something we don't..lol...now I'm not so sure! I was thinking it might be shadows, but it's just he and I alone in the dark room, so that's ruled out.

Oh...this is hilarious...one time a couple of weeks ago, my 16 year old daughter was sitting at the ottoman, on the floor, reading a magazine. She had her legs folded underneath her bum. Topher was barking and barking at her and we couldn't figure out what he was upset at...it took me the longest time to figure out that he couldn't see her legs!! He stopped barking as soon as we showed him that she still had them..lol...

Anyway....does your yorkie bark at things you can't see?? Or is this just a Topher thing?