Visitor injures my yorkie
 

Hi, I'm Tabitha. I'm a new yorkie mom. My yorkie Louie is 7 months old now and I adopted him a month ago. Sunday we had our first scare with our yorkie. Louie is skittish around strangers to say the least. We had a visitor in our house. Louie wouldn't let him within a foot of him. He wouldn't let him pet him. He smelled his hands and when the visitor reached out to grab him, Louie ran away. Every dog is different and you should definitely never make a dog uncomfortable because you want to pet them in my opinion. So my husband and I are in the kitchen and Louie is in the living room. The visitor entered the living room and decided he was going to hold Louie. I watch Louie jump 5 feet out of this strangers hands, hit the floor rolling, and run over to me limping on three legs. I check him for any obvious breaks- there were none. So I look up online sprains and strains and it says to keep the dog from using the leg. So I keep him in my lap for the next couple of hours until our company leaves. I limited their interactions with him- at one point they said 'Louie wants to sit on my lap now!' And I sternly and politely said no. After our guests are gone, I let Louie down and he was still not using the leg completely. For the rest of the evening we are limiting his activity and hoping the sprain will heal itself. I feel terrible for not setting clear boundaries. I blame myself for putting my dog in danger. Today, Louie is running and playing and eating like his normal self. I am so glad he doesn't have any injury. I can't believe anyone would try to hold a skiddish dog without the owners consent. I guess because yorkies are small. I love my yorkie. I knew I had to watch my yorkie around children, but not adults that should know better. Learn from my mistake! What are your close calls? I want to learn from your mistakes!,

I might still have him checked out. Honestly when a dog limps it means they are in pain so they should be taken to a vet at least for pain medicine. If you injured yourself as a human you would take something for pain so we should treat our pups how we would want to be treated.

I wouldn't call this a close call exactly, but my sister visited me a few years ago and our Bella wanted to lick her hands and face. My sister said, "You know how you stop this? You grab her tongue." And she grabbed Bella's tongue when she tried to lick her and Bella was kind of traumatized. To this day, she is scared of women, and she never used to be like that. I posted about this on Yorkietalk a while back: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...as-tongue.html

Well, before getting my first Yorkie, I read TONS of YT members' posts. Specifically the health/sick/injured posts. I got a good scare learning about all the weaknesses about Yorkies, but felt well prepared when I first brought Scottie home.

I don't let strangers hold my babies to this day (for the exact same reason as what happened to your Louie). Some people may think I'm uptight, but I just cannot fathom the thought of him breaking his leg, neck, back from being dropped. When I first let my family hold him, I made them sit on the floor. And also made sure Scottie was comfortable and not scared. It was a very slow transition. But well worth it. He now loves all my family, which is great for when I need a dog sitter. :)

Your poor little Louie. I'm glad he is okay. A former YT member, his Yorkie was dropped by a visitor and the pup suffered a fractured leg.

I'm not shy about correcting visitors and telling them not to do things with my 2 Yorkie boys. That includes my brothers and boyfriend. I've had to train them all on how to be safe around little dogs. They don't have any experience.

I have never had any with any of my babies. When I had my (now passed) pack of 3 girls I watched them like a hawk around ppl. I made it very clear to children and adults to not pick up my girls. I never left my girls alone with ppl who were not familiar with them and visa versa. My girls were not tiny, they weighed in smallest was 9 pounds biggest was 13 pounds, but broken legs could still be gotten if dropped.
Even with my 12 pound rescue boy, no one is allowed to pick him up, if you're sitting and he wants to cuddle he will jump on sofa then their laps, but no picking him up.

Warning
 

I recently heard of a 7 year old girl jumping off the sofa onto a yorkie, killing it instantly. Your really have to supervise children around yorkies. The girl didn't jump on it intentionally, but by accident because the dog ran under her as she was jumping.

Louie
 

I am so thankful little Louie is ok. How scary that was! Yorkies are wiggly doggies and we must be very careful.

I had a scare when one of my relatives held and lifted my dog from the neck, from floor level to around 6 feet high. I almost fainted , luckily he was not injured. Same thing when a visitor tried to treat him to a bunch of cooked chicken bones and a bunch of grapes for dessert. You need to be around strangers all the time if they dont know a clue about dogs.

Picking a dog up by the scruff of it's neck is from my grandfathers days, and still used by some uneducated about animals people. Ppl just do not know how to handle animals. With all my dogs, as pups and even as adults, I scoop them up, right hand under their butts, left hand under their front legs against their chest. I see ppl picking dogs up by placing their hands under the front legs, arm pits....ouch.

LOL you correctly identified who did it...

Ohhh nooooo, it was grandpa. Well we can't blame ole school techniques, but we can re-educated them.

Moms lift their pups by the scruff when they are puppies so lots of people feel like it’s ok for them to do that too. Not a huge fan. There are so many people who don’t realize what is bad for dogs. If I go to someone’s house I ask before doing anything other then petting their dog.

People are so dumb.

My step-dad used to have this friend (who thankfully we don't see much of anymore) who Jackson NEVER warmed up to (he's timid with new people but once he gets to know you, he will usually love you forever). He obviously had good judgement with this guy.

Anyway, one time the guy grabbed him by his harness so he couldn't run away from him (he truly thought that was the best way to get Jackson to like him :rolleyes:) and Jax got so scared he expressed his anal glands. I was furious! I was like that is NOT how you get a dog to like you - now he's DEFINITELY never going to warm up to you. :rolleyes:

Hahahaha way to go Jackson! I wish my dog would've peed or pooped all over my visitor. Hahahaha I wonder how difficult it'd be to train my dog TO do that ���� no in all seriousness, my experience was a big eye opener. I had good reason to feel so protective of my little fur baby.