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12-09-2016, 03:41 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Toronto
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| Seeking tips for choosing out of litter Hi all, I am getting a second Yorkie pup in a little over a week from now and will go and see the puppies. There are two for me to choose from. Both are males. Any tips on what I should look for when choosing would be appreciated. Thank you I look forward to any responses. |
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12-09-2016, 04:55 AM | #2 | |
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Make sure to see them awake and alert not at nappy time.
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12-09-2016, 08:24 AM | #3 |
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| It is written always look for the friskiest puppy. Many ppl go to see puppies and will choose the first one that comes to them. Your heart will know which is the puppy for you. Now if it were me going to see two puppies lol, I would take both because I wouldn't be able to choose lol, I am very weak when it comes to puppies, I see, I want, I buy. Good luck.
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12-09-2016, 08:35 AM | #4 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | In the library under puppy info is an article written about evaluating puppy temperament. You might like to read it. You also need to consider how your current dog will get along with the newcomer.
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12-09-2016, 02:51 PM | #5 | |
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Pandee has two sisters. We got pics of the litter texted... probably within the first hour. And there was no doubt she was THE girl ! Later we found she was ALSO the friskiest too!
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12-09-2016, 03:31 PM | #6 |
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12-09-2016, 03:33 PM | #7 |
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| Thanks all and I will let you know ! |
12-09-2016, 05:03 PM | #8 |
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| This is the thread that Gemy posted. I think her information and knowledge are wonderful. She evaluated Yorkies when they were eight weeks, and my dear friend has one of those puppies. Her evaluation was spot on. The precious little girl is four years old, and she is full of confidence and personality, just as she described. Que Tee is such a sweet and loving little girl, and she is also, to use Gemy's word, a hellion. http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/pup...ant-puppy.html Best wishes with your new puppy.
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12-10-2016, 02:49 AM | #9 |
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| Just to throw another perspective on this, one of my dogs was very laid back and he was the one who stayed back and just observed. He wasn't timid but he wasn't very bold or outgoing either. He wouldn't come up to me, and it just seemed he wanted to be in the corner alone watching everything. Just what you would perhaps call aloof and distant. The breeder expected him to be a laid back type of dog. However, he has never been like that since I took him home. I think it was because he was in an environment where all of his siblings were putting him in his place, he was always the one getting beat up a little bit, and he'd be the lower ranking one in the pack you could say. But he has become the social butterfly, super confident and bold, outgoing, very very active and high energy. I wouldn't call him dominant though and he's never really showed those types of behaviours, but he's so confident and secure in himself and not at all neurotic or prone to nervous upsets. This was not at all expected based on how he behaved when he was at the breeders and with his littermates. It also took a very long time for him to bond with me, and its not as deep of a bond as I'd like and I wish sometimes he'd show a bit more attachment to me. It's been slow going in that regard. So in many ways he is not what is expected based on what is written in the library about evaluating temperament. And I've observed him in many situations where lots is going on or perhaps another dog is being a bully or whatever it may be, and he has never reverted back to being aloof or backing away and observing or showing nervousness. I'm completely nonplussed about this. He's so different than what I expected. I think now he is showing his true temperament/personality, and I can only guess that maybe early on with his littermates maybe he didn't have the social skills or coping skills to deal with the environment, but now he does and he can show his true personality. I'm not too sure what it was but he's much different now. Both me and the breeder are shocked by how much he's changed. |
12-10-2016, 03:15 AM | #10 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Toronto
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| Thank you so much for this valuable information and I wish both you and your Yorkie much happiness and play! |
12-10-2016, 05:05 AM | #11 | |
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12-10-2016, 05:24 AM | #12 | |
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12-10-2016, 06:16 AM | #13 |
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| Not an expert by any means, but I agree with the two posts that state sometimes, the shy one ends up not being shy. Chewie was quiet, didn't interact, and seemed to just not have much of a personality. It was evident enough that husband and I got into a fight about it. He kept pushing another high energy, me-me-me-me dog at me. Five days later she was barking at the hose beast (steam cleaner) and not even two weeks later was dominating another dog in that dog's own home. Now she's the nosiest thing ever. She's a little skittish, but that's it. We found out later she had been shipped from another state, put into that home, and her siblings had been sold the day before; and she had an eye infection. She was just scared and sick. |
12-10-2016, 06:18 AM | #14 | |
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Me lol, my 4th yorkie I bought because she was HUGE at 8 weeks old, again, I bought her because I KNEW no one would buy a yorkie that BIG, so I bought her, as an adult she weighed in at 17 pounds and lived to be 17 years old. She was a perfect fit for my 9 pound ONCE the bossy baby of my pack. Knowing today what I have learned on YT, I would still buy the puppy I feel no one would want, that is just who I am, I am so afraid a puppy not wanted would not end up with a loving family. I have been blessed with the puppies I had, all now passed. I would NEVER advise anyone to buy a puppy the way I have, I took a chance and came out a winner, each of them had loving personalities and were the sweetest girls, also it was the way I raised them, to be very social with all ppl and all types of animals.
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12-10-2016, 06:37 AM | #15 | |
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