List your yorkie's idiosyncrasies

[Baroness]

Lovin' everyone's responses...some have me laughing out loud.

Teddie will come and lay his head on my feet while I am doing dishes, every single night.

Teddie loves laundry days, he will run after me while I carry the laundry basket to fold it and sneak socks from in between the slats in the basket to lay beside it. He then sniffs at me until I tell him "Good boy for pulling the socks out for mommy."

Teddie has to lay inbetween my husband and me in the bed at night. Every night he climbs into bed, runs over to my husband, licks him twice and lays his head on my husbands shoulder. When I lay down he lays in the center and watches me until I close my eyes. When my eyes close, his eyes close...(yes, I peek! )

Teddie loves to run through the sprinklers when he is outside and we are watering...yet he HATES baths. Even the hippo faucet sprayer doesn't make him happy.

When I am reading the news on my iPhone Teddie will tell me when he's had enough of my attention NOT being on him. He will stand up on his hind legs and paw my phone with his paw until I shut it off and give him some love.

He makes my day every day.

[CouversMom]

Oh gosh, my two have a ton. Let's see how many I can think of right now.

Couver:
-He is obsessed with water that comes out of sprinklers and hoses, but hates taking baths. He attacks the water like a crazy man and gets completely soaked
-He hates bikes, rollerblades and skateboards. He likes to chase them down the fence. He sees them all the time, so I don't know why he hasn't been desensitized to them...
-Couver loves to sleep under the covers. If he isn't under them when I fall asleep, he will scratch at them up by my head until I lift them up and let him under.
-He also does not like it when anyone runs. He will chase after them and bark until they stop running.

Khloe:
-She barks at anything that looks like an animal on television. She is getting better, but she will even bark at human/animal statues that she sees.
-She loves to give the kitties kisses. She always gets so excited to see them and pounces on them and kisses them.
-She doesn't like to be separated from her brother. If they are separated for even 30 seconds, she gets so excited to see him again and jumps on him and kisses him.
-When Couver gets upset with her invading his space, she pats him on the face with her paw really gently as if to say 'It's okay brother'. This upsets him even more but it is hilarious to watch.

This is all I can think of right now, but they both are very much unique individuals

[vandronova]

Tiny is obsessed with hair ties. He loves loves them. Well so does my cat, Oli. They fight over a hair tie that they find. Tiny always wins. Also, Tiny would be asleep, but as soon as we go to bed, he goes into a wild protective mode, and starts growling at nothing.... which is annoying because he runs to the window (even with closed blinds) and growls.

[alaskayorkie]

Excellent thread idea! I think all our Yorkies need a shrink!

Eddie
* Barks and stares toward the top of the entertainment center. I offer to pick him up and show him, but he runs. He returns and keeps barking and staring up there. I finally catch him and lift him up. He sniffs everywhere, doesn't find anything he wants. Only then will he stop. Until the next day. He's done this almost every day for years.

* Announces when it's dinner time by going to the kitchen and barking.

* He's not a tug-of-war kind of dog and has never shown any aggression toward a human. But occasionally, when he's bored and I refuse to entertain him, he grabs my pants leg and starts tugging on it. It's so freakin' cute that I let him get away with it.

Jillie
* Never goes to bed until the last one in the house goes to bed. Usually it's me, but she does the same thing when my wife stays up later. Or the MIL stays over. She just can't stand missing anything.

* She's the only one of my three dogs who gets along well with the neighbor dogs. When left on her own, she'll walk right up to the fence and socialize. But when she knows Eddie and Rusty are around, she'll bark to let them know the neighbor dogs are out there. Eddie and Rusty proceed to run up and down the fence and bark while she just sits there and watches the fun.

[manolos mom]

Hank likes to walk on his hind legs. He can walk the length of my kitchen, and I have a long kitchen. lol. I just pray he wont do this in the ring.

[Gingergirlsmom]

Bernie likes to stack all of the dog beds. He'll drag them into one place from all over the house. Then at night he'll drag one upstairs and then up his little stairs onto our bed.

Ginger is obsessed with paper. We've had to buy tall lidded trashcans and cover the toilet paper. I can't even set down a magazine or paperback book within her ability to climb. She will quickly devour any paper she gets a hold of. (She's even been known to raid a guests purse for tissues). Anytime we go anywhere (a family members house, vacation rental) I have to beat her to all the bathrooms and close the doors. Then she spends the next hour or so stalking the place for any loose paper she might find.

[dawn27]

Wow there are so many but here are a few:

When I lay down on the floor all four of my babies will come running from all corners of the house and just tackle me with kissed and cold noses. If I cover my head they will push one another out of the way to see who gets to lick my face. If my husband lays down her gets a tongue bath on his bald spot.

Another one would be when they see me with my grooming kit they all go into a Competition Trick mode. It is like they are trainng for the
Doggy Olympics "Sitting, Staying, Rolling over and Prancing" all wanting to be groomed. Maybe because they know that they get a treat!

Ruby: loves to be in the bathroom with the kids when they take their showers. She will sit on the side of the tub or even jump in with them. But when I am in the bathroom all I hear is them snorting and blowing air through their nose under the door.

Miah: has one of the strangest I have ever seen. When my daughter takes the towel off of her head from showering. Miah will roll all over the towel snuffing it and some how get herself wrapped up in it. She goes totally nuts eventually falling asleep wrapped up in the towel.

[chestermama]

Chester paws at me when he wants to go under the covers, barks at me to go to bed if I fall asleep on the love seat he is very vocal if his water has gotten low or if he in hungry. He paws at the water in the car also if he is thristy. When we get in the car he barks at me and pawas at this treats and he wants one, he gets one after to goes poo

[TinaLaSure]

Bella sleeps snuggled up across my neck with her cheek to my cheek. She sleep like that all night and if I try to move (or breathe) she gets upset with me for waking her and as soon as I get comfortable again, she lays across my neck again.
She also goes CRAZY at the sound of a soda can. She has never had soda and never will, but the crunching sound sends her into a barking, jumping, flipping and running at the speed of like, kinda fit.

Tina LaSure

[purplg8r]

Bella has a weird sleeping pattern: She'll jump up on bed to give us goodnight kisses, then jumps down and crawls under the bed. Sometimes she'll growl and yip (although we have no idea why) and sometime during the night she'll jump back on the bed and burrow under the covers.

Anytime we cook anything in the microwave, she'll come running because she thinks its her food

We live in a condo, so we have lots of cars with alarms. So we often hear the "beep beep" when someone locks or unlocks their car door. But somehow Bella knows which car is DF's and goes barking at the door til he opens it.

She loves to bury her bone. She tries to bury it anywhere she can..in the cushions, in clothes, but her favorite is her litter box (eww!!) I find them in there and throw them away and just get a look like "how can you do that to my bone?"

[gidget529]

I am sitting here laughing with tears coming out of my eyes - great thread!

Gidget loves to play hide and seek behind the long drapes in the dining room. She has to be the first person my husband greets when he gets home or she will bark. She is afraid to walk by a trash can on trash day. She gets down in this "ranger crawl" position and runs by them. She will use her nose on her pee pad after she's peed like it is dirt to try to cover her pee.

Cricket (RIP) used to love to steal tissues, run underneath the bed with them and tear them up like confetti - would not eat however. She also used to hump her little toy pig.

[LIL MIS' MAGIC]

Magic carries around a plastic ball (with bell inside) - it is like her pacifier. She will play fetch with the ball endlessly.....if you stop and she still wants to play, she kicks/tosses the ball under something (couch/furniture) and then whines until you get it out for her.

Annie loves the small latex soccer balls that squeak. She normally has one when she greets you at the door in hopes you will play with her and other times when she wants to play she will bring it to you while constantly squeaking it.

Both girls will pout if they cannot have/find their balls!

[gidget529]

Oh, I forgot one I've seen other people comment on on other threads:

We cannot use the restroom without a little yorkie wanting to watch!

[My lil friend]

Mina sits across the back of my neck or on my shoulder when I am watching tv. If she is not interested in what is in her bowl,she will chew on the edge of the bowl and try to hand it back to you. She is the first dog that I have ever met that doesn't like bread,tortilla chips or cake. She has tried all three lately and just spit it out. Refuses to use pepe paper,so I put it in her pen to keep her from pottying there,,,wonder if I can carpet my house with it. I guess she thinks that the other five dogs dont use it so she shouldnt either.

[shawnzeppi]

Originally Posted by SophieKatesMom

When Sophie Kate hears someone getting ice she comes flying into the kitchen in hopes for one of her favorite treats--Ice Cubes.

She shares her Nyla bone with by dropping it on my face

Sophie Kate dislikes yard ornaments and jack o' lanterns and will attempt to fight everyone she see's.

I can relate to these . Pippin knew the ice sound too, and woud come running. He would also drop the nylabone on me, but not the face, into my hand because he always wanted me to hold it for him while he chewed. I guess he got a better chewing experience when I held it firm for him instead of him trying to attack it between his paws. GF thought I spoiled him, but who could resist?

Gatsby is by far the most aggressive (3 y.o. male), and has always wanted to attack anyones lawn ornaments and especially holloween and christmas decorations... Those with motors are his favorites.