Ahhh, you've clarified it
Small dog != Yippy dog (well, not always)
We have a number of the small dogs (toy poodles) (not my choice) but none of them make any noise until something invades thier turf, like one of the girls bringing a new boy home for the first time. It our dogs were the yippy kind, either they would be gone or I would be gone.
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