My Little Dog Mr Harvey

[Connemmara]

He is simply just brilliant and unfortunately we my sister and I treat him like a human being and he acts like one. My sister who visits me every Sunday for years and years and your man comes in to the house and tortures her and stares at her to go home again so that he can get ride back to her house in the car.

However, this past 2 Sundays he is saying NO I am not coming in from yard and cheerio. Today I had to go to physio - when I came home he was ecstatic for a few minutes then wanted to go outside. He has been very much an inside dog. He is 8 and a half. I joked to my sister oh he will have his moments he is 81 now. But I am a wee bit perturbed cos he is the only animal I have had. Anybody care to enlighten me why he is acting this way after all these years. Thanks in advance.

[FredPuli43]

It's just him ! By 'outside' you don't mean out in the street?Leave him out there, he'll come in to sleep( and to eat, I expect). Of course, the definition of 'door' is 'something a dog always wants to be on the other side of', but he hasn't reached that stage yet. Be thankful you haven't got two of mine; let them out in the evening and they disappear across the fields to the woods, to go rabbiting, and may not reappear until the morning ! I have got used to that; they are 11 now. Once back,they may bark for me, the housekeeper, to let them in, but then, they may not; it's their decision.

[Connemmara]

Thanks Fred - no I mean in my backyard. Only thing I worry he did get out last Friday cos I left him in the house when I went groceryshopping - the weather was atrocious - forgot he was in and am bringing goceries in the front of the house and off he went - that was about 6 at night he came back about 10. I just worry about him getting knocked down. I did run after him but the more I did the more he ran away. He just comes back in his own accord.

[FredPuli43]

You'll have to secure your gate and boundaries to make them Harvey proof ! Mine are secure on the road side; the back is onto the farm with its fields and woods . I've never had any reports of my wanderers getting on to a road and they have always shown a dislike for roads and traffic.

[mikey4444]

My first Yorkie died because he was run over, and that was because I let the door open without thinking. Little Alfie was my pride and joy and when he died it broke my heart in a way that the death of both of my parents previously hadn't achieved. That was 9 years ago and it still hurts, even though I now have a new Yorkie called Willy.

So please make your house and garden secure as possible. I would hate for anybody to have to go through what I did on that fateful day in 2004.

Give Harvey a cuddle for me !

[anneasquith]

ah!!!!!!!! wee willie the yorkie :o

[mikey4444]

I called him Willey coz he's small and hairy !

I know, not a very good joke but its the best I can do. He is having his quarterly shampoo and set at the moment and the house is terribly empty without him bouncing about the place. I have just had my haircut as well, on the way back from taking him for his. Mine cost £9.50 and his will cost me £29 ! I have tried to persuade my barber and his groomer to offer a bulk discount for doing us both but none are interested ! I have told my barber that he can sit on the board that he uses for little boys to sit on but he's still not interested. The groomer has kind-of offered to do me as well but I would have to agree for my anal glands to be sorted at the time, so I have lost interest completely.

[RATTER15]

To say your dog acts "human" is to pay him a huge disrespect!!

[Baldric]

///I did run after him but the more I did the more he ran away///

Not having a go, why is it that people with small Dogs wery rarely bother to train them?
I was putting our two in the car recently, and a small terrier shot across the car park, dived in the back with them and started 'having a go' when I asked the owner (55+ lady) to control it, her reply was,
"Why, it's YOU with the F@@@@ng dangerous dogs!"
Our two were trying to climb over the back seats to get out of the way at the time! :o(

[Baldric]

Very^^^^^not wery!........doh!!

[paddywak]

I've noticed that baldric, Max would walk along at my side without a lead and up would run some horrible yappie little thing usually a Yorkie or JR. Max would sit down and try to ignore them, but it was always his fault because he was a big "dangerous" GSD and should be kept on a lead despite the fact he never moved more then a couple of feet from Trish or I unless he was told he could "Play"