One of the Ladies at the dog park I go to had a Yorkie, and it was a champ at hunting squirrels, sometimes the lineage comes through no matter what.
“One of the Ladies at the dog park I go to had a Yorkie, and it was a champ at hunting squirrels, sometimes the lineage comes through no matter what.”
Yorkies were bred in York, England, to dig into tunnels and catch rats. I got my Yorkie when she was six weeks old and within a short time, she started digging into a sheetrock wall just inside the front door. I tried everything to stop her, spray stuff for dogs to stop them from licking and nothing worked. She was going to dig in that wall and hunt for rats. I gave up and had a contractor put up a wainscoting of material that was slick like you see in showers. She knew she was done and never tried to do anything to the new wall.
I gave her cardboard boxes and she would dig into them; she finally got over that stage but I’m sure if she smelled a rat she would go after it - luckily I do not have rats in my house.