Weird Obsessions?!!? Good morning everyone! Now this is going to sound a bit nuts - but do any of your Yorkies have weird obsessions?! Harry has developed an obsession for my husband's Victorinox Swiss Army card!!!!! :confused: :D He absolutely loves it when Andy takes it out, uses whatever he needs to - and then it magically slots back away inside the card like a trick!!! He sits there completely mesmerised, from a distance, by the whole process and nothing can distract him! If it's been a while since it's been used - he'll sometimes sit and look at the drawer until it comes out again!! What on earth is that all about?!!? :) So - obsessions anyone?! Sally + Harry x |
Who knows the mind of a Yorkie. I'd love to see a video. BTW what is a Victorinox Swiss Army card - is it something like a Swiss Army Knife with all the fold out gadgets? |
Chizzie has the idea that humans are clairvoyant and if she turns around in a circle the human in her presence will know exactly what she wants. |
[QUOTE=chattiesmom;3724880]Who knows the mind of a Yorkie. I'd love to see a video. BTW what is a Victorinox Swiss Army card - is it something like a Swiss Army Knife with all the fold out gadgets? Woops, sorry! I presumed they were 'worldwide'!! :) Yes, it's like a credit card and about half a dozen 'gadgets' slot in and out (for instance scissors, tiny penknife, toothpick etc). It's really, really clever, but I'm not obsessed with it!! ;) In that same drawer is Andy's electric shaver - and that holds the same fascination for Harry too!! :confused: Sally + Harry x |
Over the years, Wylie will suddenly let go of old obsessions and then will just randomly start a new one - it just dumbfounds us. One of the main ones he started about 1.5 years ago was needing 2 socks to go to bed each night. So now, every night, I get in bed and read...and Wylie sits on the floor next to my bedside and stares at me, waiting for the socks. Once I'm warm in the bed, I take off my socks and drop them on the floor. Wylie picks them up and walks 6ft in a certain diagonal direction, turns around and walks back, (and may repeat this walking several times), then jumps up onto the bed w/ his socks - paces just a bit, then very gently "places" his socks, then taps them a few times w/ his nose to get them 'just so', and then he lays down w/ them to cuddle and settle in for sleep. He won't even settle at night now without his dose of socks! He is so quirky. And we love it. When he used to eat kibble, he always wanted us to "fluff" his kibble around 8pm. In other words, there would be kibble sitting around the bowl at all times -- but in the later evening, he would go sit by his bowl and whine/chirp bc he wanted one of us to pick up the bowl and 'fluff' (move around) his kibble and exclaim (ooh/ahh) over it, and then put it down -- and then he'd have his evening kibble snack. Every night, he wanted that fluff. |
You've really, really made me laugh :D !! I can picture the sock scenario - and as for oooh-ing and aaah-ing over a bowl of kibble - well........:yelrotflmBrilliant! And we do it!! Sally + Harry x |
Obsessions ? YES ! I will try to make this story short (not likely is it LOL) Anyway... As you know Gracie is a rescue and she came with a lot of problems. She had never played with a toy. When the other doggies played, barking and zooming around the house, she cowered behind my legs. I would toss the squeaky Kong balls for them and she never showed the slightest interest. Gracie and me were in my craft room. (I couldn't leave her in another room because she would panic. She would throw herself against the gate screaming and urinate in terror. Bloody her face trying to chew her way to me.) Back to the story, where was I ? Oh, I was in my craft room sewing a fleece blanket back onto a quilt I made for my Granddaughter. The fleece was bright pink. When I trimmed off the excess fabric, Gracie picked up a strip of the fleece, and pawed at it, chewed it, then tossed it into the air. It was her first toy. I watched her covertly. I took a strip of the fleece and made several candy bar sized little pillows (no stuffing just layers of cloth). I had two squeakers and tucked them inside of two. I casually let them drop to the floor. Gracie sniffed them and choose one. She settled down for a little nap with her chin on her new 'Pink Baby'. I added black thread, eyes, nose and smiley. Gracie now had custom made by Mama, toys of her very own. When we left the craft room she carried her Pink Baby. (I really am trying to get to the end, but you know how I just go on and on and on) At first she would hardly put Pink Baby down to eat. After a few days she began to bury it under her blankie, in her crate. She sleeps with Pink Baby. If she takes a nap or is stressed she brings Pink Baby with her, to my lap. Gracie will not share Pink Baby with the other doggies. I have made this same Pink Baby at least 20 times over the last 2 years LOL. Gracie loves them to pieces. So that is what we call Gracie's Pink Baby obsession. :) |
The only thing Chachi really obsesses about is his humpy bear. Hes had it since he was a young pup his breeder gave it to us and he has to know where it is and it has to be accessable to him at all times. I have put it way up on a toy pile before not thinking and he will whine for it. Same thing if he takes it outside and leaves it he will whine for it and we will have to open the door and tell him to go get his humpy. |
Oh but that is such a wonderful story!!!! You are so, so kind. You've rescued her in so many ways. God bless you :) Sally + Harry x |
Maci has an obsession with my husband if he is nekked... she tries burying him! Not that he walks around nekked a lot haha, but he works long hard days and will be exhausted and dirty after work so he'll shower, dry off, and plop down on the bed to rest til supper is ready. Then gets up, throws on sweats. It never fails that Maci will go in and try to bury his manhood! The last time she did this she dragged a baby blanket from her dog bed to cover it! I know, totally gross, maybe even slightly inappropriate! But she is OBSESSED. I noticed last few times he showered he put on sweat pants hahahaha. Maybe she just thinks he should be more modest :P She also has an obsession with dragging her toys out, she doesn't even like to play with them, but she'll drag them all out, leave them for about an hour, then she'll start taking them and "burying" them in one of her dog beds haha. She viciously digs and growls into the bed, places the toy, and noses it to "cover" it... then onto the next. Until they're all out of sight haha. |
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hahaha, yeah my husband is a man for sure. no shame what-so-ever. he usually is too tired to even care that Maci is desperately trying to burying and cover that... THING. I honestly think it just freaks her out! |
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Levi is OBSESSED with writing utensils. We cannot leave pens, pencils, highlighters, or even paintbrushes lying around because he will steal them, chew them, toss them around like toys, and then hoard them under my bed. We say he's working on his memoir. He is also a compulsive licker. It's one of the weirdest self-calming rituals ever, but it works for him. He'll get really excited about something, run around and yip, and then find something to lick. One of his favorite things to lick is a dog bed we have in the living room...he never actually gets in it and sleeps, but he spends quite a bit of time each day licking it. |
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These stories are great!!! |
I too am just loving this thread. We need more of this on YT! These little stories telling about our Yorkies is what I thought YT was going to be when I joined that first day. Then I learned it is that and so much more. But stories like these are what I was looking for when I found YT one day in March of this year. Tibbe's obsession is the spot on the pillow next to me, whether I'm in the bed or lying or sitting on the couch. He works indefatigably to get to that area - whether the pillow is propped up against the end of the couch and he can't really fit onto it due to the slant or whether I'm lying down in the bed and lying on that end myself. He will stand in front of me in the den or stand right by me in bed - quietly for the longest time should I be silly enough to try to ignore him and then chirping some and then outright bossy growling at me until I make a place for him to curl up there. And once he's achieved his spot on the pillow, he lets out the biggest sigh you have ever head! It is the one thing in life he is constantly working for all the time unless he is otherwise busy or lying on his Cloud 9, in the den window, etc. He has other places he sleeps and naps it is true, but several times of every day I have had him, Tibbe is "working" on me to get to that spot next to me. Sometimes my computer is setting on the couch arm and with the big couch pillow propped up against the arm, there may be about 3" from the pillow to the computer hanging over the arm. Tibbe will squeeze his way into that tiny place somehow even though it is warm from the computer and even though there really isn't room for anything to fit there, let alone a Yorkie. Yet when he wedges in there, I always hear the sigh of achievement! In bed, if I am using the end of the pillow he wants to be on, he will just flat out bully me into repositioning myself so he can ascend to the pillow and sleep right there, always with the big sigh once he's in position. Why the bed itself isn't good enough, I do not know. He has slept on the bed some nights but only when I went to sleep during a bullying session! That dog has from Day 1 wanted to be right next to me and up on whatever pillow I am propped up against or lying on and simply nothing else will do. It just amazes me that he won't let it go after 3 years of living here and having access to lying on or near me in many other ways. No, got to be up on the pillow next to me. Nights when I watch TV in the den and lie down on the couch using the big couch pillow, Tibbe cannot rest until his butt is firmly in my face lying on that pillow and watching TV. And each night when we go to bed, I know my determined Yorkie will be vying for his right to a portion of the pillow I sleep on. Why that is soooo important to this Yorkie I live life with I will never understand but Tibbe seems happiest in life sharing a pillow. |
Thank you! Lovely, funny stories aren't they?! :) I realise it's vitally important, first and foremost, to be able to come here and get information and answers. But, just sometimes, it's good (for us!) to read about the 'lighter' side of everyday life - and all the mad, sweet, loving things that our littlies do :aimeeyork Sally + Harry x |
Oh my gosh! I just LOVED reading this thread!!! All of these stories just made me giggle! I can just imagine! Being a newer Yorkie Mom I am just discovering how funny these Yorkies are! I know we still have a lot to discover but the weirdest thing that Katie Scarlett does right now is her obsession with bubble wrap. Whenever we get a package in the mail or some falls out of a drawer in my scrappy space she goes nuts. She thinks she has to have it. Of course I supervise her, but I let her have it for a bit. She will come over and look up at me first. I guess she is waiting on me to give her the go ahead. I tell her 'take it' and she will scoop it up and take about 5 trips around the room in circles with it in her mouth. She then will lay it on the floor and if it rolls up at the edge, she thinks she just has to have it straight. So she'll paw at it and get it all smooth. She is such a girl! She cracks me up! She has to have it all just so so. So she'll fix it and lay down for like 2 seconds on it and then she repeats the whole process over again. She'll run with it and it just cracks me up. Then after a few times, she'll lay down on it and fall asleep. I guess it's like her version of one of those memory foam mattresses! LOL. She does this with blankets too. She thinks she has to have them just so so before she lays down to sleep. She has 2 blankets that my Mother gave her. She had each blanket monogrammed with her initials and she has to lay her face on the monogramming. It's like she knows that they are just for her! This girl! I swear! She is such a little pampered princess! One more thing she does it put herself in 'time out.' For example, when I am in my scrapbook studio, she is in there with me. But to keep her out of trouble, I set her up in her xpen. Well she isn't too crazy about it and even though she can see me at all times, she still wants to be right there with me. So she may get a bit rambunctious and bark a little too much. So I'll say 'Katie Scarlett, Enough' and if that doesn't work, I just pick up my Coca Cola can with the pennies in it. I don't even have to shake it anymore, she knows it by sight. And she knows when Momma picks up the can, she better behave. So she'll go and put herself in time out in her bed. She'll lay there for at least 15 minutes like she knows she got into trouble. She is so funny! I always love on her when she comes out though. |
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