It started with my sister, we had a pekingnese growing up. Needless to say it shed
ALOT! He eventually passed from old age (16 y/o), and by that time she was living in NY alone so she wanted a companion pet. She researched dogs that didn't shed, and found yorkies. We didn't know about puppy mills at that time (1992), so she bought Zippy from a pet store in Manhattan.
As time went by and Zippy got a bit older, she was planning ahead for a "replacement" so to speak and looked into adoption. That's when she found Chip from Petfinder.com, Chip lived with her for a while and got fat. I could see he was a very intelligent dog and would benefit from training, so I offered to take care of him while taking him to training classes here in PA. Chip seemed to
LOVE it here, so I offered him a permanent home and she agreed. Mind you before Chip came along I swore to myself I was
NEVER going to get a dog, I was totally planning on more cats.
A few months go by, Chip is adjusting well to living here, has friends at the park, and truly enjoys the company of other yorkies. That's when I knew he could benefit with having a sibling. I started looking at rescue/adoption since I wanted a yorkie similiar in age, and size for him. I applied for numerous dogs, but never recieved a response. Then one day on YT someone posted a teapot in MI, he sounded perfect so off he went on a plane to PA! Chip adjusted right away to his new brother Harley, and I couldn't be happier
So I went from not wanting to have anything to do with dogs, and end up having
TWO! 
(My cat is not thrilled...)