re: Are Yorkies really that stupid?

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I have a three year Yorkie that I am convinced is part human. She is incredibly intelligent. She hasn't crapped in the house or destroyed anything since the first couple of weeks. It's her emotional intelligence though, that astounds me. Smarter in that regard than any dog I have ever had. She is easily the favorite dog of my lifetime.

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My mom had a Yorkie just like this. I think her previous owner had died and my mom adopted the dog. You could talk to her like a human and see genuine reaction and understanding. When my sister's kids were born and my mother babysat them her Yorkie was incredibly loving to the children and watched guard over all of them when they slept in the spare bedroom in their infancies. One time my mom forgot to let her out for the bathroom for a really long time and she peed inside, and the amount of remorse and sadness she showed over not holding it in broke my mom's heart. I think that was the only time she had ever used the bathroom inside.

My dad didn't want to adopt the dog but after a couple week's that dog became daddy's little girl. She always waited by the door for my dad to come home from work so he could walk her. One day she started acting funny and tried to get my dad's attention, though, acting funny he took her to the vet, and she just died at the vet of a heart problem, no more forewarning than that. Heartbreaking. She was such a sweet girl.