Do yorkies and kids mix .
 

Hi y'all my Yorkshire terrier Maxie and Maisie there littermates we had them at 12 weeks from our breeder .when we used to take them out as soon as they saw a child they would bark all ages babies included they haven't been mistreated by children .there isn't any children in our home just my daughter who's 20 and my sons 22 who spoil them and look after them they just hate children why xx.

LOL Hate is a pretty strong word.... How's about "unfamiliar"? Children are small, unpredictable and noisy at times. I'd give the dogs a break on this one. :D

Exposure to well mannered children will ease your distress. Introduce your dogs to a good kid.

I'd also say it's more of an unfamiliararity than it is hate. My Blazer and his litter mates were born at an in-home Daycare and so when they started barking at the kids it was because they wanted to get out and play with them! Most pups go nuts at things they aren't used to seeing, which sounds mush more likely the case here.

Problem is there 1 years old and they have had nice kids come over to are house to stroke them but they still bark and dislike kids i think they Will always die like them .

yorkies are never recommended in homes with small children. I would not trust your dogs around the kids of others. Just keep them away.

Some Yorkies do very well with kids. Usually this is when the Yorkies are exposed to kids in positive situations from an early age.

My Yorkies had a couple of bad experiences with kids, so they are leery of little people. They also don't like that kids tend to be noisy and unpredictable, as Mark pointed out above.

Bella doesn't dislike children, but she prefers adults. I have 12 grandchildren, all very well instructed in how to treat her, but she still gets a little nervous with the younger ones.

For the most part no, they do not mix.Yorkies are fragile and it's too easy for little kids to hurt them. I know some people here have successfully integrated their yorkies and their children, which is great...but I am sure they are constantly supervising their dogs and their little kids. If someone already has a yorkie and ends up starting a family afterwards, I think it's best to try to intergrate the two rather than rehome the yorkie. But if someone has little kids and then decides to buy a yorkie, I'd say that it's most likely, not the best idea.

They'd probably be ok in a house with teenagers though....as long as teenagers know how to act around little dogs. I am certain I could have handled having a yorkie when I was 12-13 years old as I was training and showing dogs at that time...but I also know kids at that age that couldn't handle pets at that age, so I'd say it depends on the individual dog and kid.

I was always told, no. But my Ricki loved kids. His favorite was when they put him the the play cars and pushed him around. I have pics in my album. He also loved water, esp the lake. I think he thought he was a lab.

But kids are scary because they are unfimilar. We used to joke that we had a racist dog. Not that racisum is funny and our family is far from it being in California, but with living in a mostly white house, in a mostly white community, if he saw a person with darker skin he would go nuts. Took some training.

My dog loved our kids. And was very tollarent to pain from toddlers and he was about 7years old when they were born. He was small but a buff 6.5 lbs. Some yorkies are very fragile.

I think like any breed it depends on the dog and training.

Have some well behaved children help socialize them. Have the child carry treats and drop treats on the ground so the pups don't have to touch them. This will have your pups associate kids with great things. Slowly have the kids increase the closeness to eventually hand feeding the pups.

My boys love kids, but I have two kids under 9. My boys are also little weighing only 4 lbs each so my girls have been taught how to behave with little ones and are always supervised

Oh oh, I have a 5 year old granddaughter who does not live with me, but we do get her once a month for a about 3-4 days as a visit. I hope im not going to have any problems. I would hate to have to keep Athena contained in one room when my grandbaby is here, but if need be I will. My Shih Tzu and my grandbaby get along great. Im hoping that since Athena is so young she will get use to the child and be ok. I do watch my granddaughter like a hawk with my dogs.

I have grandchildren ranging in ages 2 to 10 years. I have a few of them on a daily basis for around 10 hours! We have 3 yorkies and one is very tiny! They all love the kids and the kids are very careful around them! I have socialized my yorkies with all ages of people right from the time they came to live here. They don't bark, bite or shy away from any of the kids. The kids are monitored all the time, but they really don't bother them much. Now, since your 2 have never been around small children, you might have a problem!

Best of luck and keep those babies safe!

I know several ppl that have yorkies and children and all get along great. Just the way puppies have to be socialized with ppl, the same goes for children. Try to have your pup meet with "calm" children, no screaming, grap at dog type kids. I just adopted a 2 y/o yorkie, the dog was purchased for a girl who at that time was 9 y/o. This dog was spoiled rotten lol, and loved deeply by the little girl, the dog was carried in the arms of this little girl as if it was a baby. Seems a relative moved in, was pregnant, had the baby, now all attention went to infant, and this dog was ignored. They decided infant and dog was to much work so they surrendered the dog. I has a 16 y/o yorkie that I had just put down, I was sick, sad, depressed and swore NO MORE DOGS the pain of loosing them was to over whelming. The dog was surrendered to my vet who called me 6 weeks after I had to put mine down, I told her no more dogs, she told me the story of the dog, said it was a male and to "just come to see the dog". In 35 years I have had 4 female yorkies, I didn't want a male, out of respect of my vet, because she thought of me and my reaction when I had to put my dog down, I did like male dogs so I knew it was safe to see this dog, make my vet happy, in a nut shell I took him home, he is an awesome lil guy, they put a lot of training I into this dog. When he sees a kid he gets all excited and drags me to them. He LOVES kids. Now on the other hand, the 4 females I had did not like kids, reason, they were teased by them, little kids would shoot at tem with water guns, family children when they would visit would scream out of excitement when they saw my dogs, this scared them, so my 4 female yorkies did not like kids, they feared them. I told you this story to show you,::: it's how the children treat the dog, that matters. good luck to you,

I think it really depends. Honestly, most Yorkies I have ever met have "surprisingly" been good with kids. Definitely just always watch with caution! Have a "safe place" for dogs to go, such as an expen, a room, etc. Kids and yorkies can get along well, with supervision and the right kids/dog! It can be a good learning experience for both.

Jackson is great with most gentle kids (in fact he's more willing to go up and say hi to a kid than an adult), but he can be nervous around hyper active type kids. But what I usually do, to make it fun for both, is bring lots of treats. I usually have "strange" kids (to him) do tricks with him too, which they always find so funny, and he is most comfortable doing something he knows well.

I always love this video, of my little sister when she was 3 (excuse the messy room).

My family had 2 yorkies when my cousin was born and a different yorkie when I was born. They got along great with us, but we're very gentle.

The yorkie I grew up with didn't like boys though, the neighbor's sons used to throw rocks at him. :(


Lola loves kids, she gets super excited whenever she sees one. I've been trying to let as many strange kids as possible pet her as long as they're calm and the parent is there. The people I got her from have a toddler, so that may have helped too.

I haven't had a moments trouble with any kid, all of them have asked before petting her or wait until I ask if they want to and they've been very gentle.
Middle aged women on the other hand drive me nuts, they think it's appropriate to grab Lola's face, stick their face in hers, and use this horrible overly squeaky voice. They won't listen to me (I guess because they're my "elders") so I just walk away with Lola glued to my shoulder.

There's only two kids in my life, my friends son and daughter. I let her daughter play with Lola, closely supervised and with strict rules (no picking her up or playing tug of war-I'm still working on Lola's aim).
Her son has been around Lola, but he's not interested in her. I also can't let her down around him because he's autistic and he happy stomps his feet all the time.

If any kids in my neighborhood threw stones at my dog, I'd be at their parents door so quick!!

I've had more problems with adults than children. I do have a neighbor lady who had two daughters and one of them came running up on us while we were walking. I told them that my dog bites and the little girl still kept on coming until the mom snapped her up and said "didn't you hear the lady, the dog bites." I was also at an outdoor festival and the dogs were in their stroller and I had their top down for a minute and another family of little girls wanted to pet the dogs. I told them they could pet Ricky and I held Prince back so he couldn't get to them and they couldn't get to her and one of the little girls kept wanting to touch him anyways....but most of the time, they are ok with just getting kisses from Ricky. He's so little, cute and happy that they are more than entertained with him.

Some of the adults on the other hand just try to pet without asking. I used to be embarrassed to say "he bites" but now it just rolls off my tongue. I then go on to explain how he's afraid of people...and most people can sympathize with his situation. Definitely not a dog to be trusted around kids though....

My 20 year old son who lives with me is autistic. He stomps alot to and in general is just a very loud person that often moves in manners, that to a little dog could seem scary if not use to it. Athena has adjusted well to him and loves him to death when he comes in the room. He is very gentle and careful around her. But he is 20 years old and lives here. Its different when its someone they arent around all of the time, especially a young child.

My family did try to stop them from throwing rocks, I don't know the full situation, it happened years before I was born.

It's great that your son does so well.
If he were at my house more I'm sure I could work with him. His mom doesn't teach him how to be gentle with their medium dog and cats, so that makes it even harder.
Since he's rarely around Lola and not interested in her it's just better to keep them apart. If he wanted to pet her I'd help him.

oh I agree. Your certainly doing the right thing there.

Our Gracie loves kids. Our breeder had grandchildren so she was exposed to them early on before we brought her home at 8 weeks. Every time she hears the voice or laughter of a child she perks her ears and wants to head toward it. She is 13 weeks old now and soon to meet our 4 grands who have gotten to know her via skype.

We have a clear cut plan for her safety so they can enjoy her.

my first yorkie tolerated my kids....she liked them but didn't love them.....2nd yorkie loved the kids. (I had both of these yorkies before having kids)

current yorkie loooooooves kids and came home to us as a puppy with kids already in the house

I have two grandchildren that visit us occasionally. Kyra is 9 and Luke is almost 7. Right from the start they were not allowed to approach Gunner from a standing position. He was leery at first, but now he loves them and I don't worry about them stepping on him or hurting him (they are not allowed to pick him up at all). They were over today to pick up their dog (I was sitting the granddog for the weekend). They came in very excited about being at a indoor water park and they were excited to see their dog but Gunner took it all in stride. They only come over ever couple of months but he did get used to them. I think if you get a pup and you have grandchildren it will depend on how you treat the situation. If you act fearful and don't let the dog and children interact with your supervision then they probably will never like children?

I love to socialize my dogs with children. It can be great for both the dogs and the children but I always show the kids the proper way to approach and pet and I encourage them to give treats to the dogs too. Kids can be scary because they move quick, are loud etc but I believe it's very important that our dogs meet lots of different people at an early age. I think I read they are supposed to meet 200 different people by 20 weeks or something like that. The more kids the better but make sure the kids are appropriate. I never let them pick up my dog and carry it but if they want, I will let them sit on the ground and hold them as long as the dog is comfortable.

My best friend has two small children (3 and 5) and they love my pups..and my pups love them! I have to supervise with Rosie very, very closely since she is really little though. They can only play with her if they are sitting on a couch and hold her in their lap. I worry about Luma too, I don't allow them to chase her or carry her around but they are allowed to throw a toy for fetch, her favorite game.

Yes you should def be very watchful and lay down boundaries for kids with small dogs, but it's not going to stop me from having my own children some day.