[maxs_momma]

Originally Posted by jamiesaari

I understand, respect and admire what the rescue organizations do, but my frustration lies in those rescues that have a blanket policy of never adopting to families with children. Rather than take each Yorkie's personality individually into account, some just say "no children ... ever."

The Canadian Yorkie Rescue has this policy. Not only do they say it in each dog's profile on their website, but they responded to my email inquiring about future dogs that may be good with kids with their blanket policy of "no children ... ever."

If the Pennington County Human Society had a "no child" policy we wouldn't have Tika - who seems to think she's Hannah's new mother. Being so tiny (six lbs) and previously abused/neglected, if Tika were in a rescue with these policies we would not have had this wonderful, sweet little joy in our lives and been able to adopt her.




The relationship between Tika and my daughter, Hannah is incredible to watch. Here are some examples:

Tika stands up beside the bathtub when I'm giving Hannah a bath and watches to make sure I'm doing it right .... LOL

If I lower my voice to discipline Tika for doing something wrong (i.e. peeing somewhere besides the pee pad) she runs to Hannah - which is very heartwarming to see.

When I wake up Hannah in the morning for school, she jumps on the bed and licks Hannah's face to help wake her up.

Hannah is in bed and I'm sitting on my couch working on my laptop. For the first little while Tika was always beside me on the couch. Now she has chosen to snuggle in bed with Hannah when she goes to bed.

Children and dogs (for the most part) are a natural match as they are both unconditionally loving, innocent and loving.

Sounds like you have a match made in heaven with those 2 sweethearts