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03-28-2017, 02:17 PM | #16 |
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| Our new pup & my concern Hi everyone, thank you for all your replies. After a couple months of searching and having no luck with breeders we finally found a breeder that had dogs in Las Vegas and I inquired about them. I fell in love with a cute little girl that I thought was perfect and she was only $3,700, but the breeder let it slip to my boyfriend that she would be 3.5-4 lbs and he didn't want to buy a dog that size. The breeder mentioned his family in Korea (this is where my bf's last pup was from) would have smaller pups and he managed to find a teeny tiny girl for us. We Skyped with the Korean breeder twice and looked at the conditions there, and they were surprisingly immaculate. We Skyped with the puppy as well and got to see her run around to make sure she was healthy. We ended up buying her (she was $5,800) and she is set to be shipped out in three weeks around April 15th. Here is my concern, please help if you have any experience with this. I am afraid of shipping a pup this small alone from Korea and would prefer to fly out and bring her back myself but my boyfriend feels it would be dangerous for me to go. The breeder told us this puppy was "around two months old," but to me she looks younger. This worries me because the flight is around 10-11 hours and if she doesn't eat she will have blood sugar problems. I am not an expert at aging pups but something tells me she looks more like 5-6 weeks, and if thats the case I don't want her shipped until she's about 12 weeks old. Can anyone give an educated guess to how old she is? Also, we have decided to get her a friend to grow up with but this time it's my choice on which dog we get. I'm looking for another yorkie, boy or girl, but one located in the United States and still small but around 3-5 pounds. |
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03-29-2017, 07:23 AM | #17 | |
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very sad to read this, i would like to say more but would probably loose my membership and it's not worth it for those that choose not to take advice from people that have more experience that your @&F boyfriend. I sure hope you get what you are expecting and God help that poor little puppy being shipped like cargo all the way from Korea Good luck with the boyfriend and don't get to attached to the puppy.............
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03-29-2017, 07:47 AM | #18 | |
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What a very unfortunate situation...an entire post of red flags from the OP.
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03-29-2017, 08:06 AM | #19 |
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| Please take your rude comments elsewhere. I asked for help and you have given none. I am working as best I can with the situation I have and I don't need or care for your opinions on what we do. |
03-29-2017, 08:10 AM | #20 | |
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03-29-2017, 09:43 AM | #21 |
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| Im pretty sure that puppy has hydrocephalus. I wouldn't get that pup let alone ship it by itself.
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03-29-2017, 09:47 AM | #22 | |
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03-29-2017, 10:07 AM | #23 | |
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03-29-2017, 10:14 AM | #24 |
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| I so totally agree. Just shaking my head over this.
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03-29-2017, 10:14 AM | #25 | |
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There are no guarantee's in LIFE - much less breeding. Breeders - on occasion - have tiny ones. But again, no one knows exactly when. If they do get a tiny one - they keep them a lot longer to make sure they're ok when they go to a new home. Here's the link to the national Yorkie club. They list breeders by state. Yorkshire Terrier Dog Breeders- Yorkie Puppies
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03-29-2017, 10:17 AM | #26 | |
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03-29-2017, 10:59 AM | #27 | |
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I came on this forum looking for suggestions on breeders that some of you could recommend so that we didn't have to buy from Korea or another foreign place, and guess what, only two people were actually helpful, the other comments were like yours and entirely unnecessary. Then, I wrote that I want to fly to Korea myself and fly home with her to make sure she's safe, but you judge me to be unethical? Your opinion of me can go where the sun doesn't shine. Here's a bit of stinging truth for you: This forum runs on donations, do you think new members are going to want to join and donate when people like you go about writing rude comments about other peoples actions? Do you think the owners of this forum are going to want to keep people like you around when you're so off-putting to other members? I doubt it. Here's some more stinging truth: People want these dogs and they will go to great lengths to get them and spend great amounts of money on them. Instead of sitting around berating people searching for them on here, why not actually send them helpful information to a breeder you know that sometimes has small pups so that they don't go find a dog on Craigslist or a random website or some hoarding breeder out in Iowa or someplace. These dogs are born, it happens, there's nothing you can do to stop it and there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop people from buying them. You are part of the problem, not the breeders in Korea. | |
03-29-2017, 11:01 AM | #28 |
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03-29-2017, 11:12 AM | #29 | |
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As I said before, good luck. I'm sure you will get the permissive support you are seeking from someone else. Last edited by SirTeddykins; 03-29-2017 at 11:13 AM. | |
03-29-2017, 11:32 AM | #30 | |
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Based purely on the information from your posts and what most members believe to be ethical, our response has been that there are no reputable breeders who deliberately breed to sell puppies so small. Again, as was posted by cj125, here is a list of breeders by state who are listed in the Yorkshire Terrier Club of Ameria, where you may find reputable breeders: Dog Breeders Map List- The Yorkshire Terrier Club of America In addition, here is some information on ethics from the Yorkshire Terrier Club of America on the size of Yorkie you're looking for: http://www.theyorkshireterrierclubof...ocs/Teacup.pdf Try not to take anything personal. Because everyone's concern is only with the puppy's health. Hopefully you can take a step back and see this too. But you're absolutely right. No one can control how small a dog you want to buy, after being made aware that there are such high health risks involved. We can only inform you on what's general knowledge, such as the information in the above link about Teacups. And with this knowledge in mind, we cannot recommend further action to do something we don't believe in. It is rather unfortunate. And there are several red flags. If you're insistent with your plan, then where you fly to pick up the tiny Yorkie is beyond that and maybe more of a discussion you could have with your family and bf instead.
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