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View Poll Results: Do you let people pick up your Yorkies? | |||
Yes. Pretty much everyone | 18 | 9.78% | |
Often, but only after instructing them how to do it | 26 | 14.13% | |
Rarely. Must be a mature adult | 84 | 45.65% | |
No. I avoid it like the plague | 56 | 30.43% | |
Voters: 184. You may not vote on this poll |
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04-19-2011, 10:14 PM | #1 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | Do you allow people to pick up your Yorkie? First of all, a caveat: I understand the temptation. Yorkies are so cute and so small that EVERYONE wants to pick them up and cuddle them. But this has increasingly become my pet peeve. My dogs don't WANT to be picked up. They don't especially like ME picking them up just for the sake of being picked up. They understand when I have to pick them up to put them in the car, or up on the bed, but for the most part they'd rather get places by themselves. When I want Eddie to get moving on a walk, I tell him "I'm gonna pick you up." That sends him high-tailing it. My peeve started with the neighbor kids. EVERY time they come over, they want to pick them up. I say no. My wife sides with the kids. She doesn't see the harm. The harm, as I see it, is it's an unnecessary risk to take. Yorkies can break legs from falls. Why risk it just so someone can have cuddle time with my dogs? Especially when my dogs don't like it! People don't ask to pick up my Lab? Why is it any less stressful for my Yorkies to be picked up?? Am I being overprotective?
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04-19-2011, 10:22 PM | #2 |
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| Not at all. I'm surprised that you started the poll. I guess I assumed I was the only one that didn't allow people to just reach for Kaji. I do however allow people I know and can trust to pick him up without having to look at me for approval. Not including my family, there are only 6 people I would allow that from. 2 of which are YT members. Kaji is a cuddle bug, and loves to be held often. But it's usually by me, and if anyone else picks him up he's squirming to get away, and I'm always scared he'll fall. The few people he trusts are the few people I trust as well.
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04-19-2011, 10:25 PM | #3 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | Yeah, I think it could be a different situation if the dog likes to be picked up. Mine don't, especially by strangers. And I should have added there are times when I do allow it. If I'm in a crowded room or a place where I don't want them walking around, I'll either pick them up myself or enlist a trusted adult to do so.
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04-20-2011, 12:17 AM | #4 |
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| Firstly, that is so funny about Eddie & the walks! Definite Yorkie attitude! Second, that is a good point about your lab...hmm, might have to use that myself, need be. Thirdly, I haven't ever been in a situation, I don't think, where a stranger wanted to pick up Princess. She would step in before me and not allow it. But my family, my closest friends & my daughters friends (13y.o.) can pick her up without a problem. She practically walks up their legs into their arms anyways. The kids in my family, all of them, newborn to almost 12 have to sit down when holding Princess. I don't think I would let kids outside of the family hold her, as they have not been properly scolded, i mean taught yet.
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04-20-2011, 03:41 AM | #5 |
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| My daughters are 8 and 9...and their little friends always want to pick them up. I nicely tell them "please don't pick her up, it's very dangerous." (I say 'her' because Peyton is on crate rest and they don't get the chance to pick him up." I see the temptation, but yes, it does get tiresome....especially when they have to be told again and again.
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04-20-2011, 03:56 AM | #6 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Columbia, Missouri US
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| I don't let strangers pick her up. Just friends, Minnie does not know alot of people but she is really friendly. Although when someone is around she doesn't know she will bark at them. |
04-20-2011, 04:05 AM | #7 |
Gidget & Sidney's Mom Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: PA
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| I am soooo glad you started this thread and included the poll! My husband and I both absolutely cringe when people (especially strangers) always feel the need to try to handle our little dog! And why parents seem to encourage very young children to run up to our dog and touch her is beyond me. The running towards them always frightens the dog. I like your analogy - do they encourage their children to run up to large dogs and handle them? (Please excuse my rant - you found one of my biggest pet peeves.) |
04-20-2011, 05:05 AM | #8 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Massachusetts/Florida
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| I think the only people i let hold my dog is the groomer and the vet. I learned this when Pasquale was very young and i took him for a walk and some lady didnt even ask and scooped Pasquale up ...he wiggled out of her arms..and i CAUGHT him on the way down...thank god. (i think theres a post of that story from me on here somewhere). Now to make it so i dont look like a psycho mom, i just tell people when they ask to pick him up that he will pee on them if they do. (He's never pee'd on anyone LoL) ...BUT hey it works!
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04-20-2011, 05:09 AM | #9 | |
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04-20-2011, 05:15 AM | #10 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Abilene Texas
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| I very rarely pick Bella up. She knows what she wants when she wants it. If she wants to be held she will jump in my lap, unless I am standing or doing something that does not involve her, in that case she will sit at my feet patiently until I notice her. She is timid around strangers. She wont let them close enough to her to pick her up. |
04-20-2011, 05:40 AM | #11 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mustang, Oklahoma
Posts: 301
| I don't really pick my dogs up unless it's for a purpose (to get onto the bed, to tell them goodbye/hello, to get out of the neighbor's yard and back into ours!). They have no problem w/ people they know picking them up and I don't either. The only stipulation is that they pick them up under their belly because it hurts Tristan's arms to be picked up any other way. Lily usually runs away from strangers anyway.
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04-20-2011, 05:48 AM | #12 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Madison, MS
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| I could name list the people who are allowed to pick up Jamie on one hand. He is a real wiggle worm and LOVES people, but I'm afraid with him being that excited that people who are unprepared won't be able to hold on to him. My roommate's baby, Beau, does get held by a few more people but that's because he doesn't wiggle at all.
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04-20-2011, 05:51 AM | #13 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Port St. Lucie, Florida
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| No!!!...I don't let anyone pick up my Yorkies...They are just to wiggly, and I'm scared they will get hurt...I say no for there safety...I'm not rude about it...I just say no, they are real wiggle worms and don't like it....I even get nervous when DH picks them up to love on them...LOL always telling him not too.
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04-20-2011, 06:08 AM | #14 |
No Longer a Member | Nope, Rizzo hates being touched by strangers let alone picked up. He usually "asks" me to pick him up around a stranger so he can get a good sniff of them, but if they reach to grab him he freaks out! He has thin little bones and one drop would def. break a leg, and I'm just unwilling to take that risk! |
04-20-2011, 06:18 AM | #15 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| I only allow my family & one friend to pick ZoE up. I don't like strangers trying to handle or pet her when we go out in public. I think it's extremely rude to try to do so without asking. Unfortunately, ZoE doesn't seem to think how I do. She's very friendly, assumes everyone is there to see her and gives anyone she sees I-need-some-loving-puppy-dog-eyes
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