My friend
has a Boxer dog. Big, canny beast. Wouldn't bite you even if you bit him first.

Too lazy to chase anything, too lazy to bark most of the time. Yet he gets attacked in the park all the time. Usually by wee tiny yappy dogs, whose owners always claim "It's alright, he's only playing."

So, he's in the park one day, watching the world go by, and a wee Yorkshire terrier starts harrassing him. Growling, snarling, yapping, totally futile. Toby (for that is the dog's name) is completely unimpressed.

The wee thug then jumped up at Toby's neck, and managed to get his teeth into his collar. Toby decided that enough was enough, and started trying to run away. Only the Yorkie has got a grip and won't let go. So there's Toby, belting round in circles, shaking his head, spit flying everywhere. The Yorkie is hanging on for grim death and its owner is screaming blue murder.

My friend managed to catch Toby eventually, and had to prise the Yorkie's teeth out of his collar. It promptly bit her. She grabbed the wee sod by the scruff of the neck and told the owner that if she didn't come and get the dog, it'd be drop-kicked back to her. Grumpy owner collects wee savage, muttering threats about calling the police.

My friend's answer to that?

"Go on then, report me to the police. There's one of them standing right over there." Yorkie was stuffed under her arm and she moved faster than John Prescott at a pie sale, straight out of the park at top speed.

Although not hurt, Toby developed an aversion to Yorkshire terriers after that and will attempt to run away if he sees one. Big coward!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 24 Apr 2008, 19:43, 7 replies)

Yorkies
are evil incarnate. And the owners don't train them not to bite "because they're not big enough to do any damage"
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 19:47, closed)

Yup,
I've come up against that attitude. Nasty little things are only good for killing rats.

Give me a big dog any day.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 24 Apr 2008, 19:52, closed)

It's terriers in general that are evil.
Although The Nub does fist me in the night, generally she's not bad- unless she sees an animal larger than she is, at which point she starts acting like a pissed-up chav.

It's a good thing I am attached to her owner, or The Nub would have been sent flying by now.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 24 Apr 2008, 19:52, closed)

Teh bigger the dog, the girlier.
Fact, and Jack Russels are worse than Yorkies. The little bastards need exterminating.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 24 Apr 2008, 19:52, closed)

I'll agree
and funnily enough, I have a miniature yorkie called Toby! I feel like drop kicking him some times when he wont stop barking at me because I tell him to get off the sofa.
( Rolypoly Has decided, by decree, that todays date will be, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 19:54, closed)

I hate those little rats
That´s all
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 24 Apr 2008, 20:06, closed)

Yorkies are really quite stupid.
My girlfriend and I found one wandering the street last winter during a snowstorm, half frozen and sodden and utterly lost. She went out and picked it up and brought it inside and we dried it off, then fed it and put it in front of the fireplace. It was actually a rather cute and sweet tempered little thing, so we didn't mind. Meanwhile I left a message on the voicemail of its owner, telling her where we were and asking her to come get it.

The girl's mother showed up a couple of hours later and took her, and said that the dog does this all the time. They lived several miles away. It seems that the dog gets outside and just starts going in a direction and never thinks to turn around.

As cute as it was, I wouldn't want a dog that was that thick.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 24 Apr 2008, 20:13, closed)