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06-17-2015, 11:00 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: USA
Posts: 47
| New Mill survivor Hello, I am a newbie to the site and a newbie yorkie owner. My little girl is around 4 years old, was in deplorable shape. She has been vetted, finishing up antibiotics for pneumonia. She has an insatiable appetite now and is starting to be active. I am very encouraged by how well she is adjusting to her new home but I am concerned that I am missing something important for her rehab to a "normal" home. Any words of wisdom will be much appreciated! |
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06-17-2015, 11:15 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 100K Club Member & Top YorkieTalk Poster! Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: western KY
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| It sounds like you are doing everything right, since she is starting to be more social just give her lots of love & attention
__________________ Betty & Micah my love + Yogi |
06-17-2015, 11:48 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: USA
Posts: 47
| thank you! I sure hope so...she has lived in a dark world and now love and attention surrounds her. Goofy, maybe, but she seems to say thank you with her eyes at times...I never want to betray that trust |
06-17-2015, 12:04 PM | #5 | |
YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Syracuse
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Welcome to YT! What a wonderful thing you did, to rescue a mill furbaby. I hate to think about those poor babies shut up in kennels all day long, just to have litter after litter of puppies. Thank you for what you did. I know your baby will have a fantastic life with you, just from what you have posted on here so far.
__________________ Mommy to Duncan and Little Miss Elliot - RIP Tuki and Anya | |
06-17-2015, 12:07 PM | #6 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: USA
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| Welcome |
06-17-2015, 12:21 PM | #7 |
YT Addict Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: CA, US
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| Hi welcome to Yorkietalk
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06-17-2015, 12:31 PM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Hampton,Virginia
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| Dear Lilbit123, I think your new baby is 'thanking you with her eyes'. No doubt about it. You saved her from a life in a cage to a home with love and care and she knows it and is so happy and grateful to her new mom. Good for you. Welcome to YT.
__________________ Gone but never forgotten,my Joey. 06/24/2018 Last edited by Silver Lace; 06-17-2015 at 12:32 PM. |
06-17-2015, 06:23 PM | #9 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
Posts: 23,247
| It sounds like you are doing great! Its so awesome you rescued her.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
06-18-2015, 01:07 AM | #10 |
♥ Piccolo & Vivi ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kentucky
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| It sounds like you are doing a wonderful job! I think it just takes awhile. Our Dixie was in the same shape as a puppymill mama. It took her about 9 months to figure out how to play with a toy and I started crying when it happened. She went from starvation 4 lbs. to a health 6 lbs. I know that developmentally she did not get the regular puppy stuff and I blame all her oddities on humans. Anyway, thank you for adopting her. Hugs.
__________________ Lisa, Dixie, and Jazzy (RIP Piccolo and Vivi) |
06-18-2015, 03:21 AM | #11 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: USA
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| https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/virtu...puppy-mill-dog Here is a link that has more links to good info. Thank you for rescuing!
__________________ The Above advice/comments/reviews are my personal opinions based on my own experience/education/investigation and research and you can take them any way you want to......Or NOT!!! |
06-18-2015, 06:35 AM | #12 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: E.Stroudsburg, Pa.
Posts: 67,957
| Welcome to YT, thank you for rescuing this little girl. Sounds like what ever you are doing is working, so keep it up. Lots of phrase and love works wonders. Maybe working on training her basic commands, sit, stay, lie down, just basic for starters, make them 5 minutes training sessions through out the day, teach one command first, when she learns that one move on to a new command. Reward and praise when she gets it right, lots of patience and short sessions, training helps build her bond with you. She has come from a caged dark world into a world that is now filled with sunshine and love, this can be over whelming for some dogs, take things slow with her, but sounds like what ever you are doing, is working. Bless you for saving this little girl.
__________________ Joan, mom to Cody RIP Matese Schnae Kajon Kia forever in my A House Is Not A Home Without A Dog |
06-18-2015, 08:35 AM | #13 |
Donating 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: Jacksonville, FL USA
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| I truly believe that dogs can have gratitude and know when they are in a loving environment. You will get to watch your girl blossom into the fun loving affectionate little dog she was put on this earth to be. Thank you for rescuing her and providing her with that loving home!
__________________ Russ, Denise, Bella and Bailey . |
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