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LolaLove · 02-10-2009, 04:09 PM

My boyfriend was recently laid off from his job (along with the rest of the world), and I am SO jealous of him in the mornings when he gets to stay home with the doggies and take them to the park!! It takes everything in my power to keep from calling in sick and staying home too!! (someone needs to make the money around here), otherwise we wouldn't be able to spoil our little babies like we do!

My bf used to go to France every summer and always comments on how you can bring your dog everywhere!!! How nice that would be!! I passed by this place the other day where you bring your kids to play, and the mom's have a nice cafe to hang out in while they're children play around...I thought we at Yorkie Talk should do that with our doggies!! Quit our jobs and become "stay at home" parents for our furbabies!! We can all meet at the cafe at around 10:00am in the morning, and have some coffee while we let all our little ones play around together!! We could stay there for hours, chatting about our babies all day!! Work is overrated....who needs a job anyway?!?!

jcwuvzu · 02-10-2009, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by LolaLove

We can all meet at the cafe at around 10:00am in the morning, and have some coffee while we let all our little ones play around together!! We could stay there for hours, chatting about our babies all day!! Work is overrated....who needs a job anyway?!?!

what time do I have to get up to be at the cafe to be there at 10am california time since I am in Ohio?

Guess I will just have to sit here and read about your good times while my furbutts and I freeze here. (ok it was 50 today, but hey! thats not normal)

rknrbn50 · 02-10-2009, 04:46 PM

I am lucky to be able to stay at home with my Tippy. I understand how hard it must be to leave it is hard for me to leave her to go and do things like run errands or go to workout also my friends don't have dogs and they can't understand why I need to hurry back to my dog. I even feel bad when I leave her to go to church on Sunday!

.It is a strange hold that these little boogers have on us. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

WoodyMorgan · 02-10-2009, 05:09 PM

I'm very lucky, I have worked from home for the last 6 years as a RE agent, and now am housewife and FT nana to my 21mo old grand daughter that lives with us (her mommy and daddy too). With the economy, I am actually home most of the time as I consolodate trips to town. My boys enjoy it too much sometimes as they sulk when I leave. It breaks my heart!

dwood · 02-10-2009, 06:16 PM

I hate leaving Leo every day to go to work. My boss says told me one day that I should get a puppy cam so I can watch him on my computer at work. Then after he thought about it he said...No don't do that because you won't get any work done and you will find reasons that you need to go home and check on him all the time.

LolaLove · 02-10-2009, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dwood

I hate leaving Leo every day to go to work. My boss says told me one day that I should get a puppy cam so I can watch him on my computer at work. Then after he thought about it he said...No don't do that because you won't get any work done and you will find reasons that you need to go home and check on him all the time.

That's so funny you said that! I made my bf order a little camera that we could set up and tape what the doggies do when we aren't here! I can't wait it for it to come in the mail! However, I need to get my hands on a VCR too, so this might be a huge process, and a lot of money, for something so ridiculous. I don't care though, I'm so curious to see how they are when we're not home.

I like to think they are playing around with their toys and having a bunch of fun while we're out, I'm afraid it might not be this way though, and it will make me sad

We'll soon find out....

gramsof1 · 02-10-2009, 10:21 PM

It's amazing to me how much all Yorkie parents feel toward their babies. Is it just Yorkies, do you think?

Tiki doesn't like it when we leave in the morning. We are retired but go out most mornings to walk in the mall, run errands, etc. Truth be told, my husband is a Hot Wheel collector so we go hunting in the mornings. While we are getting ready, she will be a little shadow on one or the other of us, eyes wide, ears up tall, head tipping back and forth.....until....one of us tell her, "Sorry baby, you can't go. You gotta stay home today." Zoom, instant dejection, the head hangs and she goes to her bed on the couch, curls up in a ball and tucks her head in. We may be so lucky to stoop over before we leave to be granted a goodbye kiss, but usually we have to really beg. Or she will deign not to bestow a kiss upon us mortals and will tuck her head in even further or turn her little head so far around, you would think her neck would break.
Thank God she just sleeps while we are gone and when we get home, we have to follow HER routine. Husband at the end of the couch, me next. Only then will she run and jump up on his lap, never mine, climb up on his chest, lie down, lean over to me to smell my hands to see if I have been unfaithful to her and petted or touched another animal, give me kisses, them him kisses, then me, then kisses his hands until they are both petting her and then scratching her head and rubing her ears. She passes out kisses in between. Then It's one one kiss and he asks, "Tike, do you want to go out asnd go potty?" Zoom, off the lap and over to the front door.

She makes us smile all the time and we are always asking, ":How did we get so lucky to get this particular dog?"

Now on the other hand, her brother...my girlfriend has her brother. He is a totally different can of worms. He is HER boy, without a doubt. As soon as she goes to the bedroom to get ready to go somewhere, say bowling on Wedbesday mornig, he will be her shadow, until she walks out the door. Then he either sits on his chair in the driveway window or races to the back door to see if she is there if he hears a sound. Even when her husband is there, this is still his routine. He will once in a while go jump on Dad's lap, give him a kiss, but right back to the window to watch for his Mom. I think this goes back to when he was small. He had to have the dreaded knee surgery on both his legs as his knees popped out. He had to be kept pretty confined for a while and she mostly sat with him on her lap wrapped in a blanket so he couldn't damage the stitches, etc. They formed a bond that is unbelievable. He does love his Dad and he does love me and his sister, but Mom is THE one he holds tightest inhis precious little heart.

Myrna, Proud Mom of Tiki! We love her so!

SweetViolet · 02-11-2009, 02:11 AM

Oh, Myrna, that was so sweet! I think it is something about Yorkies...we have two Maltese and a Fox Terrier, but the Yorkie simply has my husband besotted (she is just a wee baby at this time) and he's not usually one given to displays of tender affection to a dog!

I am fortunate enough to work only part time and I can bring her with me when I need to go in. Even so, she spends a lot of time on my bed, in my lap, or on Papa's chest (she loves his hairy chest!).

These babies are just so endearing...more so than other puppies, all of which are sweet little things.

02-10-2009, 04:09 PM	#31
LolaLove Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Rafael, CA, USA Posts: 185 Blog Entries: 2	My boyfriend was recently laid off from his job (along with the rest of the world), and I am SO jealous of him in the mornings when he gets to stay home with the doggies and take them to the park!! It takes everything in my power to keep from calling in sick and staying home too!! (someone needs to make the money around here), otherwise we wouldn't be able to spoil our little babies like we do! My bf used to go to France every summer and always comments on how you can bring your dog everywhere!!! How nice that would be!! I passed by this place the other day where you bring your kids to play, and the mom's have a nice cafe to hang out in while they're children play around...I thought we at Yorkie Talk should do that with our doggies!! Quit our jobs and become "stay at home" parents for our furbabies!! We can all meet at the cafe at around 10:00am in the morning, and have some coffee while we let all our little ones play around together!! We could stay there for hours, chatting about our babies all day!! Work is overrated....who needs a job anyway?!?! __________________ Caroline & Lola http://www.walknowforautism.org/sonoma/carolinelauck

02-11-2009, 02:11 AM	#38
SweetViolet Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Immaterial Posts: 351	Oh, Myrna, that was so sweet! I think it is something about Yorkies...we have two Maltese and a Fox Terrier, but the Yorkie simply has my husband besotted (she is just a wee baby at this time) and he's not usually one given to displays of tender affection to a dog! I am fortunate enough to work only part time and I can bring her with me when I need to go in. Even so, she spends a lot of time on my bed, in my lap, or on Papa's chest (she loves his hairy chest!). These babies are just so endearing...more so than other puppies, all of which are sweet little things. __________________ Sweet Violet Puddin's Mama

02-10-2009, 04:46 PM	#33
rknrbn50 Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Tennessee,usa Posts: 13 Blog Entries: 1	I am lucky to be able to stay at home with my Tippy. I understand how hard it must be to leave it is hard for me to leave her to go and do things like run errands or go to workout also my friends don't have dogs and they can't understand why I need to hurry back to my dog. I even feel bad when I leave her to go to church on Sunday! .It is a strange hold that these little boogers have on us. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

02-10-2009, 05:09 PM	#34
WoodyMorgan Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: St Francis, MN Posts: 66	I'm very lucky, I have worked from home for the last 6 years as a RE agent, and now am housewife and FT nana to my 21mo old grand daughter that lives with us (her mommy and daddy too). With the economy, I am actually home most of the time as I consolodate trips to town. My boys enjoy it too much sometimes as they sulk when I leave. It breaks my heart!

02-10-2009, 06:16 PM	#35
dwood Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: charlotte, NC Posts: 105	I hate leaving Leo every day to go to work. My boss says told me one day that I should get a puppy cam so I can watch him on my computer at work. Then after he thought about it he said...No don't do that because you won't get any work done and you will find reasons that you need to go home and check on him all the time.

02-10-2009, 10:21 PM	#37
gramsof1 Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NW Washington state Posts: 50	It's amazing to me how much all Yorkie parents feel toward their babies. Is it just Yorkies, do you think? Tiki doesn't like it when we leave in the morning. We are retired but go out most mornings to walk in the mall, run errands, etc. Truth be told, my husband is a Hot Wheel collector so we go hunting in the mornings. While we are getting ready, she will be a little shadow on one or the other of us, eyes wide, ears up tall, head tipping back and forth.....until....one of us tell her, "Sorry baby, you can't go. You gotta stay home today." Zoom, instant dejection, the head hangs and she goes to her bed on the couch, curls up in a ball and tucks her head in. We may be so lucky to stoop over before we leave to be granted a goodbye kiss, but usually we have to really beg. Or she will deign not to bestow a kiss upon us mortals and will tuck her head in even further or turn her little head so far around, you would think her neck would break. Thank God she just sleeps while we are gone and when we get home, we have to follow HER routine. Husband at the end of the couch, me next. Only then will she run and jump up on his lap, never mine, climb up on his chest, lie down, lean over to me to smell my hands to see if I have been unfaithful to her and petted or touched another animal, give me kisses, them him kisses, then me, then kisses his hands until they are both petting her and then scratching her head and rubing her ears. She passes out kisses in between. Then It's one one kiss and he asks, "Tike, do you want to go out asnd go potty?" Zoom, off the lap and over to the front door. She makes us smile all the time and we are always asking, ":How did we get so lucky to get this particular dog?" Now on the other hand, her brother...my girlfriend has her brother. He is a totally different can of worms. He is HER boy, without a doubt. As soon as she goes to the bedroom to get ready to go somewhere, say bowling on Wedbesday mornig, he will be her shadow, until she walks out the door. Then he either sits on his chair in the driveway window or races to the back door to see if she is there if he hears a sound. Even when her husband is there, this is still his routine. He will once in a while go jump on Dad's lap, give him a kiss, but right back to the window to watch for his Mom. I think this goes back to when he was small. He had to have the dreaded knee surgery on both his legs as his knees popped out. He had to be kept pretty confined for a while and she mostly sat with him on her lap wrapped in a blanket so he couldn't damage the stitches, etc. They formed a bond that is unbelievable. He does love his Dad and he does love me and his sister, but Mom is THE one he holds tightest inhis precious little heart. Myrna, Proud Mom of Tiki! We love her so!