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11-18-2019, 03:32 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Grand Rapids Michigan
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| Don't Bark Hi everyone,my Yorkie Coco does not bark. He doesn't bark at other dogs,people,or doorbells/knock on the door..the only time he does is when we play. He is 2yrs old,and I've had him just over a year now..I Googled it but nothing explains it..just wandering if other yorkies are the same??thx |
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11-20-2019, 07:30 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Delaware
Posts: 2,663
| Be thankful, I can't get Duchess to shut up sometimes. She barks at everything......leaves, squirrels, rocks, and of course people. But she's a good guard dog.....I just wish she would learn the difference between friend and foe. Cherish the silence. Some dogs aren't barkers, my last yorkie didn't bark for like two years and then one day she just started barking but fortunately for me, she wasn't a barker like the little stinker I have now. |
11-20-2019, 07:39 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: North Carolina
Posts: 21
| Hi,my baby Chase doesn't bark either and he'll be 2 in February. I consider myself lucky, my friends Yorkies bark all the time at the slightest noise. My husband said we will not get lucky twice. Chase was a single baby and the breeder told me he was a quiet one when I got him at 11 weeks. The first time he did bark it scared me because I had never heard it before. I keep wondering if he will continue to be quiet or is there still a chance he'll start. |
11-20-2019, 08:01 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: E.Stroudsburg, Pa.
Posts: 67,956
| I have to agree, be thankful lol. When call him, you clap your hands or drop something does he hear it, just to make sure he has no hearing problems. Many yorkies are yappy dogs, some are not. Mine is a average barker, not a yappy one.
__________________ Joan, mom to Cody RIP Matese Schnae Kajon Kia forever in my A House Is Not A Home Without A Dog |
11-20-2019, 10:42 AM | #5 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
Posts: 23,247
| My oldest doesn’t bark. It’s not a huge deal. Considering my boys are very vocal I’m good with it.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
11-20-2019, 11:17 AM | #6 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: stanley nc
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| Gidget barks when she THINKS someone is at the door. She also barks when there is someone at the door. Other than that, she doesn't bother barking. I'm glad she barks to let me know someone is at the door because I don't always hear someone knocking. |
11-20-2019, 03:08 PM | #7 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2019 Location: Canada
Posts: 87
| Hi just sharing with you, our yorkie girl, Bella is about 19 months old. She has never barked either from the time we brought her home from the breeder, only when she wants to play, just like your puppy. She's also on the shy side, and too friendly to our friends when they meet her and also strangers from outside, i.e. she would lie down on the floor with wagging tail and stretch her body out for you to hand massage her. Also when other dogs smell her, she likes to lift her leg up so they can smell her. I believe it comes from her parent's calm temperament and also influences from her puppy training and socialization classes at early age. We wish that she would bark to tell us there's someone at the front door, then she could be a guard dog rather than a friendly watch dog, lol. |
12-01-2019, 09:57 AM | #8 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Here's Tibbe's barking story for what it's worth. My Tibbe didn't bark for the longest time after I got him at age 9 mos. but he was filled with fears of everything and it took a long time of working through each of his fears with positive-reinforcement, behavior association retraining so he'd associate any particular fear with only good things now and slowly win over it. He was scared of walking through door openings, cabinet doors opening, home appliance motors coming on, the TV, phone ringing, all that. Didn't know what grass was so it scared him, too(he'd been crate-only raised outside alone under a shed the first 9 mos. of his life! His breeder turned him and her "breeders", a couple of young litters, over to the breeder I'd gotten my Jilly from, asking her to find homes for them all as she and her husband were divorcing and she'd just gone out of the breeding business. Jilly's breeder said she found out from that former breeder's neighbor that little Tibbe had been kept in a crate outside under a shed alone for his entire life up until then!) He was petrified of most things he'd never experienced before and me, as he didn't trust people either so he screamed, ran, tried to fear bite. We patiently and in happy, upbeat ways worked through everything he feared and he came to love and actually watch TV with me but hated "Frazier('s)" TV doorbell! Or sometimes any doorbell or electronic sound from TV. He'd just absent himself in his most dignified manner pretty quickly from the room when I watched "Frazier" or movies like Star Wars with its electronic sounds. Tibbe quickly just left the room, would find him curled up, ready to nap in my bedroom down the hall anytime I followed him, in case he were having a panic attack or something. And if he was sick or not feeling well, those electronic sounds would sometimes start a panic attack but only if he was really unwell. But once we've conquered all his other fears and he came to accept this place as his homebase, felt territorial about it, he began to bark in the house - but not until after my son brought his big American Bulldog over for a visit. Tex barked a good deal while here and I think Tibbe got the message. Dogs can bark in here! After that day, Tibbe began trying out barking some. I readily encouraged it as I wanted a good watchdog and barking is natural to dogs so I enjoyed his joying in his barking ability. And boy did he. But if he kept on barking, as he did after the mailman's visit, I had to train him to bark on command so I could then teach him to stop barking on command after he'd made his point and then some! He'd learned to bark from Tex and now loved it, hahaha. Loved the sound of his own voice and I think he felt kind of important that he could make such a big sound. Cute little mess. But he learned stopping just as well as he learned to bark as I taught him it was a big win for him to stop at my request, but: Tibbe wouldn't bark outside! Almost ever. Even after Tex did. Once he got older, he occasionally began to bark when outside at strange dogs or cats coming down the alley and the big, loud automated garbage truck. Boy did he love barking at it. But until he got much older, he just didn't bark outside hardly at all and certainly not at neighbor dogs. Those he loved and he never could bring himself to bark at his buddies though they'd bark at him kind of like saying "hey" when they first saw one another and he'd just wiggle back lovingly and fold his ears back. But when he got older, say 11-ish, he began to bark quite a bit outside, too, not just at the garbage truck, still though never at his buddy dogs around. Now he'd always barked a little bit and chased cats that got in the yard but stopped short if they stood their ground. I think he really felt a strong terrier prey drive to chase, run them down but never to attack or hurt them, think he just wanted to check them out, maybe make friends. But once they saw he stopped, they then would turn and leave. So, make what you will of Tibbe's story but barking doesn't seem to come all that naturally to some dogs.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
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