Fun Fact: “No!”

No is a word that we all tend to say or yell to our Yorkshire Terrier, Cavachon or Yorkie Mix multiple times throughout the day.  The only problem is that they don’t understand what no means.  Dogs tend to get confused and anxious when words are yelled towards them or said multiple times.  Haven’t you ever found yourself screaming, “No, no, no, no…?”  A way that you can use the word “no” properly is by directing “no” towards whatever object or person that you don’t want your dog associating with.  By doing this your dog will associate that person or object with something bad rather than feeling that they are being yelled at.

Fun Fact: Vision of a Dog

Yorkshire Terriers, Cavachons, Yorkichons and Yorkie Mixes, like all dogs, have a different view of the world than humans do.

 Many of us think that our dogs are colorblind but in fact they are not.  They do not see as many colors as we do but they can differentiate colors within the range of sepia hues.

Although dogs cannot see as many colors as humans can, they have different benefits to their vision than we do.

Dogs have a broader field of vision and can detect movement better than humans can.  Our field of vision has a range of about 160 degrees while our dogs have a field of vision from about 200 to 270 degrees.  This fluctuation depends on the size of a dog’s snout. 

Because of the broader field of vision and a special membrane that covers their eyes they can detect movement from a much larger area than we can and they have much better night vision than we do which is why many dogs are used for hunting and like to do a little bit of hunting of their own in the back yard.

Even when a dog begins to lose their vision they are still capable of leading a full life because of the fact that their sense of hearing and smell is also so excellent.

Fun Fact: Superior Hearing

Humans have the ability to hear from a range of about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.  Our dogs have the ability to hear a range of about 40 Hz to 60,000 Hz.

Daily activities that we may not find irritating or scary have the ability to affect our dogs differently, especially when they are puppies.  They may chase the vacuum cleaner, bark when we are drying our hair, become scared if a motorcycle drives by while out on a walk and bark when we do not hear or see a thing.

Yorkshire Terriers, Cavachons and Yorkie mixes will use their keen sense of hearing to alert their loved ones when they hear noises that they are not familiar with.