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Me and my "guard dog" I was sitting in the living room when ZoE & I both heard something in the breezeway. ZoE, stared towards the kitchen & did a low growl. My heart started beating faster...my Mum was over visiting earlier this evening and I couldn't remember if when she left I locked the door behind her. Now every CSI, Criminal Minds type show is playing in my head and I'm thinking someone is in my breezeway ready to attack. So what do I do? That's right...I scoop up my 5lb dog for protection and go to investigate. Of course, I had (probably on auto-pilot) locked the door after my Mum left. So there I am standing in my breezeway with ZoE under my arm, when it hits me how rediculous it is how much safter I feel with such a tiny dog with me. It reminded me of when we had our last yorkie & lived in a two story house with finished basement, and my kids would scoop up our then yorkie, Chelsea, whenever they had to run upstairs to their rooms or to the basement for something. Anyone else feel German Shepard type protection with their little pup? |
They can scare you to death and make you feel safe at the same time!:D I remember I had hung a suit on a door across the hall from our room and in the middle of the night my little guard dog started barking at it. I had been sound asleep and that scared me to death!:eek: I never hung anything there again. |
Yorkies are the best little Guard Dogs of any ! Sight, smell, hear, alert and territorial, mine are aware of everything that goes on, around my house. I train mine to alarm and stay back, and are praised highly when they do a good job. The safest thing for them, and the worst thing for an intruder, is to let ME know, and I'll handle it from there. |
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My husband says he never slept so soundly as an adult after he moved out on his own before he and I started living under the same roof with my yorkie, Cricket. He says he can rest in peace knowing what good little watch dogs they are. He babysat her when we were dating and I had to go out of town, and he was surprised at how protective they are. Now my little Gidget is not quite as fearless. She will sounds the alarm but then want you to pick her up because she is afraid. She is littler than Cricket, though. Cricket would have fought anything that came through the door uninvited, all 6.5 lb of her! |
Bubba is afraid of thunder but Sissy is my guard dog. If we are in bed and she hears a noise, she jumps on top of me to guard me and starts barking. Nothing like being woken from a sound sleep with a dog standing on your chest:D |
I 100% trust in my little guardian. My roommate get's home after I'm already asleep and Roxy's shrill bark wakes me up every single time my roommate get's home. Although it gives me a heart attack every time it happens I wouldn't think of trying to reverse that behavior ..I plan to live alone in the near future and I'd rather have an overly sensitive alarm than a confused one |
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LOL..I think I have a confused one, she hears a noise and gets excited thinking someone is coming to see her..haha..:D |
Mine will bark even if I walk in the room at night and startle them. To get them not to do it you have to announce to them you are coming into the room before you enter it |
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Sounds like they are royalty..lol..Make me laugh at the thought of you "announcing" yourself..lol..:p |
Much of the time, we expect our Males to "stand up" for us, BUT !!!, Female Yorkies are not to be dismissed for their lack bravery or protective natures. My little Becca is a total terror, when it comes to HER space (house/yard/everything), which used to be ours, before she got here ! :rolleyes: In a traditional Yorkie Pack, the Females assume a lot of the responsibility for security and other duty's, with the Males sorta laying back, and intervening only when necessary. Additionally, Males have to be quite strong to hold the Alpha roll, Female Yorkies are quite capable. Chachi, HA HA, the same thing has happened to me, except that mine don't have to be startled ! :D |
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LOL!! I could see Foxy doing that as well! Haha..too funny! |
Sammy is a great watch dog too!! I always feel safe when I'm alone because I know he would alert me to anything. I can be asleep and wake up when I hear his deep growl. I tell him to Show Mommy and he will go near the window or the door or wherever he heard the noise. It's usually a cat or a person walking by but it's nice to know that our pups alert us to noises that they hear. |
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they are the best arent they, someone was in back of my bedroom of my condo cleaning down the cob webs and spraying for spiders and he was a barking, your almost scared to look outside sometimes |
A few nights ago Mina started growling at a noise on my nighttable. It was just a piece of paper rustling in the draft from the ceiling fan. She would not be satisfied until I showed her the piece of paper and told her that it was ok. She is only 4months old. |
Tek is very protective of me around males...if a male comes up to me to hug or just touch me, he lets them know to back off...he has bitten a couple of males....I did not teach him this but it sure is funny to see the men get told their place by a 10# dog :) And he picks certain ones that he really dislikes more than others...guess he is a good judge of character! :D |
My little boy who just passed away was very much a mommy's boy. My hubby works nights and if I was sleeping before he went to work he would come to kiss me goodbye, well my little man was having NONE of that.... his mommy was sleeping therefor he had to protect her. He would chase my hubby our of the room and all the way to the stairs. There were a few times hubby had to remove the 4 pound guard dog that was attached to the leg of his scrubs. I could not help but laugh hysterically when I saw this as my husband is a large guy, 6'5 and 270 being chased out by a 4 pound dog. When we had Romeo it was the same way except Romeo was even smaller, I remember my hubby saying more than once "Even the 2 1/2 pound dog is not afraid of me!!" |
They seem great! Pip gives a tiny "ruuf" then providing I dot react to the small noice hes fine, but when some noice was outside i told him to "go see" and he lept into action, prancing on all fours, aww so cute. |
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