Do your yorkies bark at you for things?
 

Ace seems to tell me so much. Almost demanding.....He barks at me to pick him up and put him in the bed, he bark at me when when he wants me to open the door to his room (where is food/water is), he barks at me when I am sitting and he wants to be in my lap so he can sleep, he barks at me when he need to go outside(this one is great). He does alot a barking at me so I have to figure out what he wants but its not usually hard. I dont mind at all. I think its cute. Is this normal or is he spoiled or what?

Totally normal. My Bandit does the same thing. I really think it's cute when he's in the kitchen and he stands in the door way and stares at me while i'm watching tv and he'll bark a couple times and when I say what he runs to his food bowl and scratches it to let me know he's out. I let it run out just so I can see that lol. But yeah if my arm is on my lap and in his way he'll bark at me, if he wants me to play with him he'll bark. he does it for most everything lol but I love it.

Sophie barks for her needs also. Pretty much all the same ones you mentioned. But she did do something new this past weekend. I asked her if she wanted to go for a walk. Which usually she'd dance and twirl and snort and if I didn't get to the door soon enough....a bark or two. However, this particular time she ran over to the door and grabbed her harness! She didn't bring it to me, but she grabbed it, dropped it and snorted and danced about. It was AWESOME! :p

It is normal. Both of mine bark to communicate things. My Chachi also whimpers when he wants to go somewhere or when he sees his Daddy pull up at home after work. My Jewels can drive me nuts sometimes barking wanting up in my lap.

OMG...I didnt think about the playing one....last night I was watching TV and I couldnt figure out what he wanted (which is rare), then when we went to bed instead of scratching and making himself comfy, he was being so playful with us. After about 20 mins or so he finally settled down and went to sleep but now im thinking maybe that is why he was barking....cause he wanted to play.

Well hmmmm, let's see. Jemma does not bark when she has to go out. She will bark when she went poo on her pad. If I don't get up to see it, she brings it to me. Disgusting. I started to give her pineapple 2 days ago. Sometime she will come and doing her growling talk and I have no idea what she wants. I know one thing. Last night she was a pain in my azz because it was past our bedtime and she just wouldn't stop with that growling talk. I was truly loving this game I was playing on my PC and had to stop because of Jemma, grrrrr, that wasn't nice. So we went to bed and she just kept staring at me waiting for her tummy rub, which she didn't get.
This morning, I swear it was spite, she woke me super early and turned over for her belly rub. Like saying here, you forgot to do this and I'm not waiting anymore. She got her belly rub and we then went back to sleep. My life has gone to the dogs.

Carol and Jemma

Wel I hope this is a sign that he is happy here and trusts us. He was 11 weeks whe i brought him home. We are going on two months with him (i swear I thought it was almost three) so I hope it means he feels at home now. :D

It seems kinda cute too me. :D Well maybe not the poo part but the lets go to bed and the belly rub...ha hahaha ha

Yes i was right....it is going on three months in the beginning of June. I cant count this morning.

:D That's funny! Our Toto is not a "barker" like some I have seen that bark endlessly. She seems to have her own little internal clock and if, God forbid, her humans get a tad off schedule, she first sits like a little Prarie Dog and stares at us. If that doesn't work, she has the softest little bark that she does and, naturally, sometimes we pretend to not see/hear her, she barks twice. That better get her what she wants or she runs to each of us, jumps up in our lap and stands on our chest and forces us to make eye contact! :rolleyes: She also tries to "make" me go to bed at 9PM every single night!! :eek: Yes, I usually give her her way and I lie there and watch TV while she snuggles and snores! She is a neverending source of entertainment for us! ;)

Lol yes she does communication too. Its soo cute she will kinda wine at us and stare when shes asking to come up on the setee and a soft growl when she drops her teddy infront of us to throw. the only bark she does is when I havn't noticed she is waiting by the patio doors to go to the garden. Yes it is cute.:D

Boy, do my babies talk to me. Who says dogs can't talk.:) My Dixie and Shorty will bark to be picked up. If one of the other dogs has a chew that Dixie wants she has a different kind of bark. She will look at me, bark and then look back at the other dog. She wants me to take it away from them so she can have it. I tell her she just has to be patient but she will keep it up until she gets something to chew on too.

When I have a litter of pups I keep them in the spare bedroom. After the pups are a few days old the moms will want to start coming into the living room for short visits. They will bark when they want to come into the living room and they will bark when they want to go back to be with their pups. They have me trained really well. :)

Bebe is my worse sassy girl at bedtime. They all get a treat around 9:30 at night and Bebe still has not learned to tell time very good, she starts barking at me around 9:00 every night. She has no respect that I might be in the middle of watching a movie or typing on the computer.

Also, Dixie is 12 years old and she has got where she does not like going down the steps to the bed at night so she does a little woof sound when she wants down to get a drink or go pee. In the mornings she does the Dixie dance and barks and barks for her morning banana pieces.

Little Man, age 10, is the only one I have that has never barked. I think I have only heard him bark two or three times his whole life. Instead of barking he does a cute little whimper. When my husband comes home at night all the other dogs will be barking and Little Man will be whimpering. Also at dinner time and treat time he does his little whimpering.

Now, if I could only get my husband to understand what they want when they are barking. My dh loves all our babies but most of the time he totally does not understand what they are wanting. I keep telling him he needs to get 'in tune' with their needs.

She sounds like one spoiled little girl. I had to chuckle about the sitting like a Prairie dog because we our Abbie will do that but in our lap when we are watching tv. She will get in our lap and sit up like a prairie dog and just sit there and stare at us. She does it just for attention and it always works.

Totally true for me too!:thumbup:

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It's the same with my female! She tells me everything she needs. My male on the otherhand is still in training because he only squeaks (barks) when he wants to play! I guess by reading some of your replies it must be a yorkie thing Hahaha!

Ahhhh ... Abbie sounds like she knows lots of ways to get her way! ;) Toto will stare until she makes eye contact ... she knows that's a sure way to put us under her spell!! :)

That's completely normal and sweet!!! He knows how to communicate with you :thumbup: My Ernie is about 12 years old and he doesn't need to bark he just looks at me by the door.....we have an understanding...lol!

Haha ... My Mike will bark at me to get my attention

He likes to do this when he's on the bed ... it gets him closer
and usually when I am sitting on the computer chair in the bedroom
It's the closest chair to the bed

If I want to converse with him I'll turn around and ask What do you want
and he'll usually get all excited and wave a paw
and Growl ... RAWF!
and I'll say Well tell me ;)
and we'll go down the list
You wanna toy?
You wanna play
You want to eat?

Doggy multiple choice :p

Oh my gosh YES!!!:eek: Pixie is the most vocal & demanding yorkie ever! she shouts at me constantly! for titbits off my plate, for me to play with her, to be lifted onto the bed/sofa...she is a FULL TIME job! but I love her for it I really do...she makes me laugh so much..she is just full of spirit & energy.:)

Does he answer? I mean when you ask the individual question how do you know which one he wants....very cute by the way, him waving his paw...I can so picture it....lol!

My Tater gives me the raspy bark when he wants my attention. He does a little foot stomp with it as well and stares me down. It's so hilarious that something so little can be so demanding!!

Love the foot stomp...lol!

Ramsey does the same thing.

The other night he followed me upstairs when I took the laundry basket up to our bedroom, which he knows is the last thing I do before going to bed. Pretty soon he disappeared and I could hear him barking downstairs. He was sitting in front of DH's recliner letting him know that it was time to go to bed. As soon as DH shut his laptop and got up, he quit barking. :)

Cookie barks for things all the time. She barks for her ball, her food, to be picked up, to be let into a room etc. My daughters think its hilarious because I'll actiually ask her "What do you want?" Usually it's not hard to figure out, often times it's nothing more than her wanting her ring toy...

as a mater of fact she's barking for something right now... I better go see what she wants:p

Oh yes London barks at me all the time when she wants things...right now she was just barking at me, she was on my bed and she wanted me to go get her:rolleyes: Silly girl

Hee hee this is a great thread! When Uni wants to play, she'll come up to me or my bf and slap us with her front paws and bark. If we try to grab her to sit on our lap (I'm always on the laptop, bf is always on the ps3) she will jump backwards, and bark again. That means "stop what you're doing and PLAY WITH ME!" At home, she loves to play with her toys at the top of the back of the couch, she will throw it on the ground, look at us and bark "SLAVE! PICK IT UP!" Other than that she's not much of a barker, more of a whiner! Hee hee.

YEP, Curly barks to tell me stuff all the time. "I dropped my toy, pick it up", "feed me", "gimme some of yours too!" and besides that regular stuff...When Curly doesn't get her way, she stomps off while talking under her breath!!! I kid you not!!I tried to video tape it but you can't hear her on the tape. Seriously! Say she wants some people food we're eating. So she'll sit there and bark, just once. Then wait. Then bark again. Then I say, "no Curly!" and she'll put her head down and stomp away mad while making this funny little growling noise like she's pissed off! hahaha, cracks us up!!!

My baby very seldom barks. I think that I have heard her bark maybe once or twice this whole week. The only time she barks is if she gets too excited, like if my nephew is running around with her and getting her going, she might let out a cute little yip. Or, when she's in her room (not at bedtime), and she wants to get out and go into the living room with me. Then, she might let out a couple of barks. That's still very seldom because I work from home, so she's next to me most of the day.