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Originally Posted by Sugar's Mom  You are going to get a lot of different answers here. While I don't have young children, I do have two young grandchildren. Ages four and seven. They visit often. they are not allowed in my yorkie room unless I am there and even then they have to sit in the floor or on the couch andd be still. Little ones, no matter how many will say their chldren are raised to be gentle with animals, are going to have accidents. They are going to stumbe and fall or drop the dog. If unsupervised, they are going to play chase with the yorkie and possibly fall down. One poster on here about a year or so ago told of how her two year old fell on her yorkie and killed it. That is also one of the first questions I ask my prospective buyers. But a lot of people on here do have yorkies and small children and their opinion is quite different from mine. |
Sugar's Mom I could not agree with you more. No matter how much you teach a child to be gentle they are children and will act like so as many chance as they get. I have two yorkies and a five year old daughter and although she could not be more gentle and a total animal lover like me I have to be on constant watch because accidents can happen and with these little ones one can be fatal. I mean these little one are fragile enough that one as an adult has to be super careful all the time (stepping on them, falling or jumping off furniture or while carried) and that danger just doubles or triples when little ones are around. Just my
