My female Yorkie understands what we are saying to her to an amazing degree. He can say, “Go ask her” and she will come where I am and put her paws on me.
She is so bonded to us, she keeps tabs on where each one of us is in the house and sits between those two places, waiting for one of us to move. I do computer work in the library of this house and he does computer work in his office at the other end of that section of the house. She sits in the middle of those two places.
She also has a fit of barking to alert us if she hears anything outside the front or back of the house.
She sleeps on our bed at the foot of the bed. It’s a California King Size bed which is longer than a regular King bed, so there is plenty of room for her there.
If he leaves the house, she sits on the carpet at the end of the wood Kitchen floor and watches the door he will enter when he gets back. He can be gone for hours, and she still sits there waiting.
As small as she is, four pounds, it appears she thinks it is her job to guard/protect us and stays as close to us as she can.
Her groomer picked up new customers last month when they saw her being groomed. They have Yorkies and wanted theirs to be groomed like her. They said she was beautiful and asked the groomer if the owner would allow her to be mated to one of their Yorkies. The groomer said no, the owner wouldn’t do that. The groomer says my Yorkie is the favorite dog she grooms. She was talking to those people like she owned my Yorkie. She said to me when I came to pick her up, “You wouldn’t want her to have babies, would you?” I said no, you were right to tell them that.
Dogs are “people” in a different form. By that, I mean they think, and take definite action based on their thinking and conclusions they make. When someone writes, “They are just dogs”, I know they don’t know much about dogs.
She also knows that I am the one to give her treats!