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alaskayorkie 09-20-2007 11:42 AM
What everyday dangers lurk?
 
This is probably not the best topic for a bunch of us fretful Yorkie owner to discuss, but I'm hoping it will be helpful.

What everyday dangers have you encountered with your Yorkie that caused you to stop and say, hmm, I've got to avoid that at all costs?

Here's mine, and it happened yesterday.

Elevators. Three of us hopped on an elevator with both dogs on leash. The dogs were a little jumpy in the strange surroundings. My wife was holding Eddie's leash. I had Jack's. Someone hit the up button and Eddie panicked at the same time and was heading for the open door. For a split second, I was mortified. I could picture him leaping out the door just as it closed on the leash. Who knows what would have happened. In a state of panic, could I have found the STOP button before it went up? Would the door have automatically opened because a small leash was caught? Or would the leash have become trapped on our side while Eddie was trapped on the other?

I may have been worrying for nothing, but from now on I'm picking up both dogs in elevators. Too scary.

SophieRose 09-20-2007 11:45 AM
Good post and informative. Warmly, Deborah

yesenia83 09-20-2007 11:52 AM
Omg..i know exactly how you feel. When we visit my moms house we take the elevator up to the 15 floor and Snuggles is always desperate to run to my moms house and lucky for me the elevator sucks so the doors open and close a few times before it finally decides to move. She bolted out on the 11 floor and i was able to grab the door b4 it closed to get her. I thought i was gonna faint from my heart racing so fast. Its really scary.

RMKC 09-20-2007 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie (Post 1382386)
This is probably not the best topic for a bunch of us fretful Yorkie owner to discuss, but I'm hoping it will be helpful.

What everyday dangers have you encountered with your Yorkie that caused you to stop and say, hmm, I've got to avoid that at all costs?

Here's mine, and it happened yesterday.

Elevators. Three of us hopped on an elevator with both dogs on leash. The dogs were a little jumpy in the strange surroundings. My wife was holding Eddie's leash. I had Jack's. Someone hit the up button and Eddie panicked at the same time and was heading for the open door. For a split second, I was mortified. I could picture him leaping out the door just as it closed on the leash. Who knows what would have happened. In a state of panic, could I have found the STOP button before it went up? Would the door have automatically opened because a small leash was caught? Or would the leash have become trapped on our side while Eddie was trapped on the other?

I may have been worrying for nothing, but from now on I'm picking up both dogs in elevators. Too scary.
:eek: makes me grinch just thinking about it !!!!

nvnvgirl 09-20-2007 12:53 PM
Wow, that's scary! I just took Max on an elevator for the first time a few weeks ago. I was holding him though, b/c we were in a hospital, and even though dogs are allowed on the unit I was going to, I'm not so sure they're welcome all over the hospital. I'm glad I was holding him, b/c he was none too excited about stepping into that "box" and then the doors sliding shut and it moving. We went on it several times and he seemed like he was a little more comfortable on it, but I wouldn't want to chance it.

ldenise 09-20-2007 01:09 PM
I had never given an elevator a thought. i am glad you posted that alert.

lawn mowers............. next time I am passing by someone mowing the lawn...i pick them up. too many times stones have been thrown our way and with my dogs being lower to the ground they are more likely to get stoned.

there is a lot of yard men working on several lawns some days and there will be several of them working on one lawn. they use a weed eater to edge and that has thrown some stones too.

good topic, by the way!:thumbup:

MIZBROWN 09-20-2007 01:13 PM
Yeah, might be a little smarter to pick the pups up next time... I always carry Meka unless we are outside on a walk or in a walking area....

aka_yorkie_mama 09-20-2007 01:14 PM
great now i need prozac

Yorkiekids 09-20-2007 01:36 PM
Thanks for bringing up the subject. I never would have thought of that.

az jude 09-20-2007 04:28 PM
Thank you for posting the scare about the elevators! Never would have even considered this.

its stephyylove 09-20-2007 04:44 PM
Theres a high way parallel to my street and the people speed on my street so ever since I saw a dog get hit a few weeks ago I have been scared to death that my dog would get loose again and this time he wouldn't be so lucky =[.. Hes either come back or we've been able to catch him before he got close to the road or even out of the yard.

Amber_lv 09-20-2007 04:45 PM
OMG i would have freaked out!! Smart thinking hitting the stop button!!:thumbup: Thanks for posting this is a great thread!:thumbup:

kalina82 09-20-2007 04:51 PM
in the hospital i work in my dept is located on the second floor so every dog i take in and out has to go in the elevator. luckily the one we have has sensors in the door so if they run or if a head is sticking out the elevator will stop. it will also stop it the door bumps something. I too have thought about the dog running out and the leash getting stuck. so with little ones i carry them if they are nice and with big ones i reel them in close to me so they have no option of moving anywhere.

littlewhip 09-20-2007 05:33 PM
Iam so affraid of elavators, I will climb the stairs if avaiable to me, I cant even think about what could of happen:( thanks for the info,

mistyinca 09-20-2007 05:43 PM
My biggest fear is that we'll drop medicine on the floor (3 of us have stuff that we have to take everyday!). I'm so afraid a pill will fall on the floor, I won't be able to see it, and she will find it and eat it!! :eek:

alaskayorkie 09-20-2007 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by mistyinca (Post 1383217)
My biggest fear is that we'll drop medicine on the floor (3 of us have stuff that we have to take everyday!). I'm so afraid a pill will fall on the floor, I won't be able to see it, and she will find it and eat it!! :eek:
Yeah, that one freaks me out too. My MIL has dropped pills before. Thankfully, they haven't eaten any to my knowledge.

MyFairLacy 09-20-2007 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by mistyinca (Post 1383217)
My biggest fear is that we'll drop medicine on the floor (3 of us have stuff that we have to take everyday!). I'm so afraid a pill will fall on the floor, I won't be able to see it, and she will find it and eat it!! :eek:
That's one of my fears. I take my birth control pills every morning and I've accidentally dropped them on the floor a couple times. Once I was having a lot of trouble finding one I dropped and I finally found it in Lacy's crate (which is right beside my bed and nightstand)...she wasn't in there but it freaked me out when it was taking me a while to find it. I've heard that dogs can die by eating one?

I'm also scared that her leash might slip through my hand and that she'll get hit by a car. And that someone will break in my house and steal her or that someone will steal her from me while I'm walking her or shopping with her.

I guess I'm always afraid I'm going to loose her. My family didn't have very good luck with pets when I was a kid so I'm always afraid something is going to happen to mine now.

alaskayorkie 09-20-2007 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by MyFairLacy (Post 1383687)
That's one of my fears. I take my birth control pills every morning and I've accidentally dropped them on the floor a couple times. Once I was having a lot of trouble finding one I dropped and I finally found it in Lacy's crate (which is right beside my bed and nightstand)...she wasn't in there but it freaked me out when it was taking me a while to find it. I've heard that dogs can die by eating one?

I'm also scared that her leash might slip through my hand and that she'll get hit by a car. And that someone will break in my house and steal her or that someone will steal her from me while I'm walking her or shopping with her.

I guess I'm always afraid I'm going to loose her. My family didn't have very good luck with pets when I was a kid so I'm always afraid something is going to happen to mine now.
I think all Yorkie owners tend to be paranoid, for good reason! I'm also afraid of sitting on Jack. He's only 4 pounds, and he likes to hide under blankets. My Mom told me years ago that she was haunted from her childhood when she sat on and killed a cat.

ldenise 09-21-2007 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by mistyinca (Post 1383217)
My biggest fear is that we'll drop medicine on the floor (3 of us have stuff that we have to take everyday!). I'm so afraid a pill will fall on the floor, I won't be able to see it, and she will find it and eat it!! :eek:
that is a good warning too. I am constantly on my husband to keep his meds under control. .... he not only drops a lot of them but he has a bad habit of not getting the caps back on tight enough. he is diabetic (takes 2 shots a day along with pills, and more pills for high blood pressure, more pills for this and that and the other, etc.)
the way Ahia runs for things that are droped scares me to death sometimes.

Potter 09-21-2007 10:52 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by alaskayorkie (Post 1382386)
This is probably not the best topic for a bunch of us fretful Yorkie owner to discuss, but I'm hoping it will be helpful.

What everyday dangers have you encountered with your Yorkie that caused you to stop and say, hmm, I've got to avoid that at all costs?

Here's mine, and it happened yesterday.

Elevators. Three of us hopped on an elevator with both dogs on leash. The dogs were a little jumpy in the strange surroundings. My wife was holding Eddie's leash. I had Jack's. Someone hit the up button and Eddie panicked at the same time and was heading for the open door. For a split second, I was mortified. I could picture him leaping out the door just as it closed on the leash. Who knows what would have happened. In a state of panic, could I have found the STOP button before it went up? Would the door have automatically opened because a small leash was caught? Or would the leash have become trapped on our side while Eddie was trapped on the other?

I may have been worrying for nothing, but from now on I'm picking up both dogs in elevators. Too scary.

That is exactly what happened to one of my girl friend's Cocker Spaniel. She somehow ran out, the elevator door closed and leash caught and the elevator went up. The elevator door will not automatically open because a leash was caught. So my friend was inside, her dog was outside and her dog was badly injured and sent to ER which was 10 minutes away. The vet said her chances were slim but after a long time in the hospital, she made it. Scary.

scoobiedooiscoo 09-21-2007 10:59 AM
My biggest fears are the hawks and eagles taking lacey away. i have seen the hawks circle the yard and once lacey was crying to get out of her pen outside and the crying attracted an eagle. the thought of her being picked up and flown away is scarry. i sometimes wonder if some of the missing dog have had this happen.

windsor'smom 09-21-2007 11:17 AM
Years ago my ex mil was doing laundry and her persian jumped in the dryer and she didn't find him until it was too late :( . My pups love to climb in the clothes when I seperate them to do the wash and I always double check the washer and dryer before I turn them on.

alaskayorkie 09-21-2007 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Potter (Post 1384664)
That is exactly what happened to one of my girl friend's Cocker Spaniel. She somehow ran out, the elevator door closed and leash caught and the elevator went up. The elevator door will not automatically open because a leash was caught. So my friend was inside, her dog was outside and her dog was badly injured and sent to ER which was 10 minutes away. The vet said her chances were slim but after a long time in the hospital, she made it. Scary.
Ugh, I was secretly hoping my fears were unfounded. It's horrible to hear this is really a possibility. I will definitely always pick them up on elevators from now on.

Lexi Rae 09-21-2007 11:55 AM
thanks for opening our eyes:thumbup: your post just saved many of
our babies..

simonandhallie 09-21-2007 04:16 PM
I'm glad you posted this. I have never had the monkeys around elevators because there isn't anywhere we go that would require it but if I ever do I will think about this post.

The one everyday danger that really used to freak me out is Simon's little interest in licking outlets. I don't know why he does it or when he started but one day I saw him doing it and it scared me to pieces. I now have the plastic baby plugs in all outlets within his reach.

nvnvgirl 09-21-2007 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie (Post 1383661)
Yeah, that one freaks me out too. My MIL has dropped pills before. Thankfully, they haven't eaten any to my knowledge.
Yeah, that too! I was just at my mom's and she commented one evening "oh, I must have dropped a Lasix (diuretic) on my bedroom rug this morning"....:eek: Max loves to hang out on the carpet in her bedroom and he picks up EVERYTHING that isn't nailed to the floor:rolleyes: . Luckily, he missed that! Something big they might not be interested in b/c most pills don't taste all that good, but something small like a Lasix or Valium or lots of blood pressure pills they'd probably have in their mouth and swallowed before they realized it didnt' taste good.

Sookie 09-21-2007 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by scoobiedooiscoo (Post 1384676)
My biggest fears are the hawks and eagles taking lacey away. i have seen the hawks circle the yard and once lacey was crying to get out of her pen outside and the crying attracted an eagle. the thought of her being picked up and flown away is scarry. i sometimes wonder if some of the missing dog have had this happen.
That's my fear too. I also worry about weed killers and pesticides that people might put on their property when I'm out walking her. She's so small I'm afraid she could get sick if it gets on her feet or eats grass of whatever.

wemple2 09-21-2007 05:34 PM
Great thread...and very interesting. I don't have elevators to worry about...but I do worry about the garage door. Ours does not have the sensor on it, so I always carry him out the door, so there's no chance he'll run back under the door and get squished...

karren 09-21-2007 05:42 PM
Thanks for the info.

I have to warn you guys about big dogs too. I had a bad experience, made my heart jump out. :eek: We were walking towards the beach and we saw this couple with 3 big dogs going the opposite direction. Then all of the sudden 1 dog got loose and started sniffing my yorkie before I could get him the other dogs followed and one that looks like a pitbull mix grabbed my dog and bit him by the neck and started to shake him around. I was like OMG!!:eek: So I grabbed my dog from the other dogs mouth and put him as high as I can by holding him up. The lady keep saying I'm so sorry and her husband just took off with the other two. He didn't even say anything. :mad: But man, I was so scared.

Potter 09-21-2007 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie (Post 1384740)
Ugh, I was secretly hoping my fears were unfounded. It's horrible to hear this is really a possibility. I will definitely always pick them up on elevators from now on.
Ya it scared my friend so bad that she moved out. Her dog spent like a good few weeks in the vet:( . She even said she tried to push the stop/emergency button multiple times and it didn\'t work-not sure if its malfunction or it just doesn\'t work that way. And the elevator in the building is the kind that is programmed to go up all the way to your floor after you swap with your key fob and won\'t stop at any other floors and she was alone in the elevator so it went all the way up to the 49th floor where her floor is before she could come down to get her dog that was injured on the ground floor. Another thing is the gap between the elevator and the floor. I am always afraid dogs might accidentaly get their leg/paw stuck in it and the elevator will close on you after its open for some amount of time. I carry mine all the time now when we are going in and out of the elevator. Can\'t wait to move out of the condo into a house.


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