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Tia the "Pointer" Somebody help me out. I have four teacup Yorkies, 3-5 pounds. One of them loves to chase a tiny "tennis" ball and bring it back to me. If I don't pick it up and throw it again, she goes into the classic pointing position and will stare at the ball intently until I throw it again. Sometimes, as a game, she hides the ball under a chair or coffee table a few feet away and then runs over to me. When I say, "Where's the ball?" she will go wherever it is and point to it for me. No one has trained her to do any of this. Chasing the ball doesn't surprise me, but the pointing, the hide-it game, and helping me find it are all utterly amazing to me. No one taught her any of this, and she has never seen another dog -- including her sister, mom and aunt -- do any of it. Is this all instinctual? Was it originally bred into rat-hunting Yorkies in England? If so, why haven't I seen another Yorkie do this? |
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I can't quote the source off the top of my head but I did read somewhere that any dog within any breed which lifts its leg or points when "hunting" or fetching is considered to be more intelligent than its peers. I don't know why as I can't remember but that part of the article stuck out for me because Teddy does the same thing! He also lifts his paw when he's listening to a command and deciding rather or not he'll oblige. Smart but bratty! |
Lol cute after my doxie i said i would never teach another dog to fetch a ball. My doxie loved her ball but she would bark and bark to get me to throw it and would not stop. We took to hiding it from her. When each of my grand kids were babies she would pushthe ball to them to play. One day she stood at our 6 foot china hutch whinning. Showed her inside all layers no ball . She kept on so felt up the very top and there was her ball. Hubby hid it there she could smell it. |
Lol, how funny! Sounds like you have a real smartie on your paws. It's funny bc thinking back now, I honestly cannot remember how we started fetching w/ our Wylie and how/why he learned to do it. |
Yorkies are very smart. I never taught Peanut how to retrieve, he just did it one day. He also points, he also will “hide” his favorite toy (his bone) and when I tell him “Where’s your bone?” he will point and look at me, then he will run and go find it. He doesn't do this with any other toy, only his bone. It’s amazing how smart these little angels are. They love to learn too. If you can have little training sessions with your girl she would excel so much. They LOVE to learn. I will have little sessions with my Peanut, maybe 20/30 mins a day learning new tricks. He picks up new tricks so fast, and the whole I have his attention, his big brown eyes look at me intensity for the next command. |
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