Difference between boys and girls?
 

I'll cut to the chase. There have been clear cut situations where Chewie has been COMPLETELY protective of me. Lately when I've been sleeping on my tummy off and on with ice in an attempt to calm my legs down, she's been my own personal guard duty. If I sleep on my back, forget that. NO ONE is allowed near me. My girl has a foot fetish, heh. She's frequently nipped my daughter for getting too close. It's always when I'm in a lot of pain. I can tell when she 'll "correct" the behavior due to how frantically she's licking my feet. The faster it is, the angrier she is. I have to put socks on them and man that makes her furious. I was sleeping one time and dan watched with amusement as she worked for an hour to remove a sock to get to licking. I woke up to a happy and content furball and a soggy foot. She' taken it upon herself to bathe my legs, too. The funny girl won't lick my cheek. No, not that. But feet and legs are her domain. I stopped questioning and now just laugh. No, not any one else. Just me. She'll take a swipe at husband and daughter as a HI, guys!!! Every morning, each person gets a puppy howl (still, I'm so happy about it) and a swipe. I'll get a grunt, a few huffs if I don't give her a snack right away, and lots of feet licks. She'll point, too.



We are going to be rounding out our family. We want my daughter to have a few more years first, due to just how many times she's left things out and Chewie has suffered for it. We've been in contact with a highly recommended parti yorkie breeder. I want to establish a good relationship first and then when the time comes, put down a deposit to get a say in the tail docking. I thought a boy would be a great fit, but of course, youtube and many other platforms show the devotion chewie has to me being mere child's play compared to a boy. I saw one outright attack a woman's husband for touching her arm. I was wondering what the differences were. Thanks, and sorry for the long post, wanted to be clear.

The only issue is by putting a deposit before the pups are born is your not going to know the pups personality. Guarding and stuff isn’t really a good thing and needs to be corrected with training. You could have the possibility of Chewie attacking the other dog which could really hurt a puppy. It’s really not a boy or girl thing it’s about the pups personality. Girls are known to get snippy with each other.

I agree that personality differences are due more to individual differences from dog to dog, plus upbringing, rather than which sex they are. Personally, the reason why we got Bella (a female) instead of one of her male siblings is that females squat to pee, and we use indoor potty pads, and we didn't want a male dog that might pee outside of the pad when hiking their leg. I don't know how true that is, but Bella has been an absolute angel as far as potty training went.

She's being trained; Resource guarding was something that she was doing and was trained out of it. it's been since I've been sick. She'll post herself before any one, but we've noticed that the sicker I get (once with a high fever) the more she'll do it. Trainer is confident that we'll get her over this hump. As for the puppy trainer has been spoken to, even that far in advance we'll be doing some one on one. She's great with other dogs, but, as for the pointing, it just shows that she needs training. It's cute, but I'm aware what the instinct behind it is.