[TeddyandTiffy]

Originally Posted by EmrldShdwQueen

Reading books can be very helpful, but there is NOTHING like experience. I was SO much more prepared for my own litters after helping deliver several of my mentor's. I had experience whelping basset hounds growing up, but there is so much more risk involved with small dogs...it's a whole difference ballgame. I sat through 2 really rough yorkie litters with my mentor...two of the hardest she had ever had...and I'm so glad I did, because Mikayla's litter was a tough one....and I was so much more mentally, physically, and emotionally prepared for it because of what I had already seen. Sorry to ramble, but any breeder will tell you that the BEST way to learn is firsthand!

Well I've helped deliver a lot of baby pigs with my Dad on his farm, kittens and beagle puppies but never a Yorkie until our Tiffanie had her litters. Yorkies are so different even tho they are still a dog they are a more I think and feel a delicate breed of dog. And they need to be treated as such.

U are also right about the Mentor & experience of whelping of the Yorkies. Sorry I just didn't think of the Mentor some of us make mistakes too in things we think they should be doing, and I also forget.