I feel like venting…
 

Now that it is just starting to warm up I have spend every minute I can outside with my little lady.
Our favorite thing to do is walk downtown to sit and have a picnic at the Waterfront Park. I bring a turkey sandwich and a good book, Lula brings her bully stick. We could sit at the Waterfront Park for hours, and usually do. As always Miss Lula-Mae Famous gets tons of attention due to her tiny size. She doesn’t seem to care why people are gawking or rushing over to say hello (she just eats it up) me on the other hand....
Just as soon as we hit any populated area, the questions start… “Is she full grown?” “Where did you get her?” “How much was she” “Is she one of those ‘tea cups?’” …. Arg! Do they ever stop to think that the woman sitting quietly with her dog reading a book just might be enjoying sitting QUIETLY with her dog!? Maybe I don’t feel like disclosing how much I spent on my dog to a total stranger? I don’t like calling my dog a ‘tea cup’ but I don’t want to have to tell each and every person the breed specifics of Yorkshire Terriers every time some miss-informed person asks about them. I have found myself replying “yep” just so I don’t have to talk to some gawker for 20 minutes or so. If your so curious about the breed, Google it!
Some teenage girl plopped her s**tzu puppy next to my Lula to say "hi" because “they are the same size!!! EEEK!” ...(arg!), then proceeded to tell me that the 2 month old gremlin growling at my little lady was a ‘tea cup’ and wasn’t going to get any bigger. I just wanted to shake her and scream in her face that 2 month old puppies grow. Babies grow. Your 'breeder' lied to you. This dog will not be 3 pounds forever, you wasted your money on a lie, and I hope to god you don’t love it less when it does grow up. Triple Arg!
Man, I really got the wrong dog for a person who doesn’t really like people all that much. I even started telling little children that bolt over with their little sticky man-handling mitts that my dog bites in hope they will stop trying to pick her up. *sigh* I am really considering training her to bit on comand.. prehaps with a trigger like "please ask first" then CHOP! fingers gone! just the thought of it makes me all warm and happy.

On a good note, Lula did make a new friend; a giant Mastiff. As soon as Lula is in his sight he will drop down as low to the ground as he can so she can lick his face. Yorkies really are fearless little devils.

Lol, I like the way you vent, your post is really funny, and so true. I use to take Joey to any stores that would allow it, but a 5-minute trip turned into a 30-minute trip because of all the comments. I've had people even stop me and show me all their pictures of their yorkies on their cell phones! Of course, I have to tell them about Yorkietalk when they do that! Glad Lula made a new friend; I would just love to see a picture of Lula licking the Mastiff's face!

Oh that just reminded me of "creep out #1"!

Have you had people stop you and ask to take a picture of your dog with their cell phone? How creepy is that!? That is the one occasion where I don’t care if I may seem rude. I am absolutely not letting a stranger message my dogs pic to "some friend". I don’t care how innocent it may be it creeps me out big time!

Maybe you need to sit further away from the walking path so there are not so many visits. I can agree what it would get very frustrating to have so many people disturbing your quiet time.

Only when Joey was dressed in his spider costume, and then I fully understood! :D

best costume ever!!! :d

Aww, it's always cute to see a Yorkie with a bigger friend! :)

This was a great vent. I also get irritated with people that think they need to pet Bella right on top of her head thereby knocking out her top knot...ugh!!

Thank you! :)

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LOL!!! I hear ya! I don't want to turn into a rude person in public places but sometimes the obnoxious questions are irritating :rolleyes: and I have to bite my tongue and count 100 backwards before answering.

I can relate to the "teacup" questions. Elliott is 5 months old and (I think) the runt of the litter; he's very small compared to other Yorkies of around the same age. Just today, I had a woman ask me if he was a teacup. I don't mind talking about my guy, but sometimes I just want to hang out with him and not the general public.

I understand your frustration I go through it often with Bailey and sometimes Layla too. But why are you so ANGRY and Bitter? You want to teach your dog to Bite on command? That seems like a little much. You should be flattered that so many people want to see your baby. I understand wanting to have your piece and quiet but people just melt over our little babies, can you blame them? When children come up and think they are just going to touch my little Bailey Im usually patient and tell them that they cant pick her up but they can pet her. Bailey loves all the attention, it isnt a bad thing for your baby to meet new people. If people are really bothering you keep her on her leash and keep her right next to you in your lap. If people come up to you then kindly tell them she isnt feeling well today and dosnt want to be disturbed. There are nicer ways to go about it then teaching your dog to bite on command...Just remember its flattery... I must admit, the first time I saw all the yorkies at a dog show getting groomed with their gorgeous flowing coats I kinda lost my manners, I couldnt stop talking to the lady grooming them about my babies and how gorgeous hers were Im lucky she was kind and patient with me and not rude and snappy.....

omg! I thought I was the only one... :D

I cant stand when people stop me every few steps and want to touch my dog, talk about my dog, MY DOG, MY DOG!!!!! :p

I have stopped taking them certain places because it is so annoying.

I get the teacup comment a lot with Chloe... she is almost 5 pounds... I just answer "Nope, shes just a Yorkie!" ;)

The t-cup question does annoy me but if people want to say hello to my two and pet them I dont mind so long as they dont pick them up, though there was one occassion I was glad some-one did, I was walking them off lead and Rosie was still in that everything was more intresting than paying attention to her mom. We met and walked a little while with a lovely couple with two cavalier king charles, one of whom was tiny for the breed. Comming the other way were some people with 3 staffies, I wasn'y close enough to grab Rosie if she spotted them first and wanted to say hello,[ she was playing with her new friend], but the guy was, he crouched down and scooped her onto his lap along with his smaller dog. Very sweet of him I thought. I see it as an adnantage that so many know my two and who they belong to, less likeley some-one could get away with taking them.

I would say since this is a vent post we get to vent whether it makes complete emotional sense or not. I took the biting as an effort at humor which I found quite funny. I work...a lot. I value and covet my quiet times. I love nature so sometimes my quiet times are at the local lake where there are other visitors. My personal understanding is that when I see someone with a book for reading, they are there to commune with their book and not with me. I think it's a courtesy issue. So I don't think the OP is necessarily bitter and angry, but rather coveting her private time with her pup and her book, something I completely understand.

now that is perhaps the funniest picture i have seen! amazing

I really enjoyed your venting:)but I totally understand your frustration as I'm sure all YT's can relate.Your experience souned like my Easter Sunday so I had to snicker. I have 3 yorkies, a 6lb , 3.5lb and a new 5 month old biewer puppy. I took them for a walk to the beach, set up a chair and relaxed. Then it started. Is the little one a tea cup, are they related, is the little one a baby, why is one black and white, why does the differnt looking one have a tail, why 3, how much did they cost?

The little one is a tea cup...yup...you say she is 2 years old...she is small, you have a tea cup their. The little tea cup was probably the most money..huh...she cost the most..ya know her being a tea cup in all. Mom!!! come see the tea cup puppy!!!

(I really wanted to light myself on fire)

Why does the black & white one have a tail..she is a what???..a biewer..that's not a yorkie...yorkies don't have tails? So she is a biewer and not a yorkie....hmmm never heard of them, she is wierd looking...ooh sorry...didn't mean wierd just differnt with her long body and snout in all.
Will she be a tea cup too?
Uthhhhhh..... this went on for an hour and I was exhasted:(

I totally agree, I think this was meant as a humorous comment and not bitter. Besides we all get a little irked once in while and everyone has the right to vent if they want.

They don't only do this with Yorkies and it is irritating. I have a runt Chihuahua as well as the regular ones and people constantly ask the Tea Cup question. Sometimes I am nice and ignore it and sometimes I get on my soap box. To me the rudest question is ...how much did you pay for that dog? My response would be "I will tell you that if you tell me how much you weigh and what size clothes you wear" Those are personal -intimate questions and any idiot should know better than to ask. I do have a fella at work that fits that bill and he asked what I had to pay for Bella. I just said...that nunya. Nunya business!

I guess I look @ things differently. When my skinkids were little and adorable I LOVED taking them out & when people came up to me to comment how cute they were, how old is he...etc. now that I have allie it brings me back to those days. I enjoy the attention that she gets from being cute and don't mind answering questions. I'm not trying to sound mean or anything but IMO , If I'm not in the mood to be social I will leave her at home.

Completely understood this vent and you have every right to feel this way! I thought the bite on command comment was hilarious and I have 2 small children! Other people's kids annoy the crap out of me because they haven't been trained like my 2 have on how to properly approach a dog (any dog) especially my neighbors daughter who has 2 huge labs and proceeds to man handle my 3 little dogs when she is over! Loved this post! Thought it was hilarious and every word true!!

OMG adorable!!!

also i fully understand why your venting...i hate it when im trying to relax or do something, and i have a million people come up wanting to see haylee. sometimes i wish we could go invisable=] if only Lol.

OMG that costume is EPIC! :D Where did you get it??

Oh thank you! Yorkietalk has a Halloween contest each year, and I had to come up with something special! I lucked out, I told another member what I was thinking about, but didn't know how I would make the legs, and she said she saw a big Halloween spider prop at Walmart. I just velcroed the spider to a black hookie, and added some black knee hi, stockings to make his legs. It was really easy to do, and it's now his permanent Halloween costume, it looks so funny when he's walking.

Exactly my thought.

I'm sure most of use weren't aware there's no such thing as a teacup until we join this forum or did our homework. There's allot of info out there and people don't know whats right or wrong they see teacups for sale so obviously they think there's such thing as teacups.
Why get mad at them, I actually enjoy people coming up to me and asking question. I can inform them what little I know and questions like how much I will go about answering them it all depends on the breeder. You can always say you don't remember. So why do you people get mad at others who use the word teacup when you don't want to be bother with a few simple questions. Not everyone knows about the Yorkie Associations and the breed standards.
I know it frustrating but you can't really blame them for wanting to learn about one of the cutest creatures of this planet. JMHO

For the OP I'm sorry but why not send them to YT and tell them all the info is here. They'll get the point, plus it's good for your baby to socialize.

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my kids usually try to run up to every dog they see in public. i've always told them NO because you don't know if a dog will bite. also, i didn't want them to think it was okay to run up to dogs incase there was a stray - they would know to stay away.

usually when i tell them no - the owner will say something like, "it's okay" or "she won't bite" and then i'll let them pet. if they don't say anything (which i can't remember if that's happened) then i would keep going.

UNFORTUNATELY, not everyone has enough sense to keep their kids from running up to every dog they see. if you take a little dog like that out in public - people are going to approach you. they probably think since you're somewhere like the park that you don't mind. maybe you can sit farther away from where people walk by - or put the puppy in something (like a basket ) where they may not see it.

and when someone asks how much it cost - tell them what i told my daughter when she asked me for help on "guess how many are in the jar" game - "more than a hundred and less than a thousand." ....or million...or whatever. that way you don't have to answer, but you don't seem rude.

some people wouldn't find that question offensive so they don't know it would offend others. i wouldn't mind answering that question if someone asked me, but i know that some people would - so i wouldn't ask it.

Haha. AWESOME!!! LOVE IT!!!!

Oh Nancy !! That picture *still* freaks me out! Oooooo!!!:D

Instead of or including "Teacup yorkies", we now have "Spider Yorkies" thanks to "Joey the amazing Spider Yorkie" who mysteriously appears at the end of October! :eek: Donna

Oh My Gosh! Thats the cutest ever!