Macho Yorkies!
 

How does your sweet little Yorkie feel about the vacuum cleaner? Higgins becomes the most ferocious dog you ever saw when the vacuum cleaner comes out!

We have a Hoover upright and Don does the vacuuming. Higgins starts to bark and growl when Don goes near the cleaning closet. It is sooooo funny! I mean that five pounds of fur ATTACKS that vacuum! It's his only real agressive behavior. We allow it because he gives up after about five minutes, so we figure we and the vacuum have "won."

Also, I went around the whole house this morning picking up toys. The dogs have about 35 toys in a big basket. Well, Higgs tugged me for every one of 'em and they both pulled toys OUT of the basket as fast as I put 'em in!

We also noticed that Higgs was chewing up paper(s) that we did not want to have chewed up.....Where was he getting stuff? Discovered that WHEN WE ARE NOT LOOKING he goes from our easy chairs onto the big table between our two chairs and steals stuff! So now we are careful not to keep anything important there.......

To those lurking on this site, thinking they might like to get a Yorkie: Be prepared to have your sex life interrupted, to spend your life vacuuming up bits of paper, to get lots of exercise picking stuff up, and to basically have life as you now know it to......well, it doesn't deteriorate......quality of life really goes up having a Yorkie.....but it is ESSENTIAL that you have a very well developed SENSE OF HUMOR to be owned and bossed around by a Yorkie...... ;)

Hmm, Yoda is quite the opposite. He'll bark for a few seconds when any vacuum cleaner comes out, then he'll shy away if we try to move the vacuum head towards him. Before he used to be full terrified and couldn't be in the same room as the dreaded vacuum cleaner, but now he's learns to cope with it for a few minutes, at least... :)

Surprisingly ... Toto is totally opposite! She doesn't see the vaccuum that often, mind you, but she runs and plays like we have brought out the "great" toy!! :cool: Sometimes she gets in the way and I think about just going ahead and sucking her up!! .... NOT!!! :D I have no idea why she isn't afraid of it [nothing we did one way or the other] ... it's just a chore we all hate so we never made a big deal ... maybe that's why she isn't afraid but I am certainly thankful she isn't!! ;)