Our first female
Yorkie was called Dacy. She weighed all of 3 and a half pounds.
She was by far the most intelligent dog we have ever had - and that’s saying a lot with the smarts God gave the Yorkie breed! Yorkies were bred originally for ratting and vermin control - so within every Yorkie there is the instinct to hunt and destroy any kind of rodent. We used to live in a housing tract that bordered an open field. Gophers had a field day burrowing under our block wall to nibble on our plants . I was flushing out some new gopher runs with my hose , when up pops a soaked, somewhat irritated gopher. Dacy was watching intently the whole scene, just waiting for this moment and cornered the wet rodent against the wall. This gopher was over a pound, so Dacy was up against a sizable foe! Gophers have pretty wicked incisors and as Dacy came up to sniff, the gopher lunged out and snapped at her, catching her muzzle hairs. The gopher drew back and so did Dacy. However Dacy’s countenance suddenly changed from playful curiosity - to that of determination in the face of the enemy! As if to say: “How dare you do that to me!!”. Instinct consumed her and
instantly Nancy and I saw what Yorkies were designed to do. In
sight of 2 seconds, like a mongoose getting the neck of a cobra,
Dacy had grabbed the gopher around the neck and mercifully ended
it’s life.
Few breeders of Yorkshire Terriers ever
see their sweet, adoring, pampered, in door
pets in action, doing what instinctively they
were designed to do. Fewer yet are the
Yorkies that fulfill their “genetic job”. But
to see our Dacy parade around carrying her
“prey” smiling ear to ear - knowing she had
done her duty as defender and hunter - was
to see nature at it’s finest. In-so-doing, as
she showed the gopher to all our other
Yorkies, she instilled the age-old longing to
hunt and provide for the pack - a skill all
dogs have tucked away deep within - from a
time long ago, when their ancestors ran free
and wild.
-Bob and Nancy
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