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eyedoc · 08-19-2005, 05:20 PM

As tempting as it may be to feed that cutie some of your food ..please don't. Our first Yorkie was a dog we fostered from the Vet office where my husband is a tech. The dog had a consistant diet of people food and developed kidney disease which led to kidney failure. He was only 3 yrs old. He needed daily IV fluids and the owner couldn't give the care ( or stop the people food..because he would "beg" for it and she couldn't resist) so we adopted him and saw him through to the end. It was so sad. He got terribly high blood pressure and medication wasn't helping. We had to put him to sleep a couple of days after New Years and even though we only had him a couple of months, he touch our hearts. So the moral of the story is be sure to only feed proper food for your Yorkie so he/she can stay as healthy as possible and give you a lifetime of Yorkie love! We have a new puppy now...a new Yorkie..I fell in love with the breed through the experience with our foster dog. Sorry so long but the message is heart felt.

08-19-2005, 05:20 PM	#1
eyedoc Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 291	Table Scraps As tempting as it may be to feed that cutie some of your food ..please don't. Our first Yorkie was a dog we fostered from the Vet office where my husband is a tech. The dog had a consistant diet of people food and developed kidney disease which led to kidney failure. He was only 3 yrs old. He needed daily IV fluids and the owner couldn't give the care ( or stop the people food..because he would "beg" for it and she couldn't resist) so we adopted him and saw him through to the end. It was so sad. He got terribly high blood pressure and medication wasn't helping. We had to put him to sleep a couple of days after New Years and even though we only had him a couple of months, he touch our hearts. So the moral of the story is be sure to only feed proper food for your Yorkie so he/she can stay as healthy as possible and give you a lifetime of Yorkie love! We have a new puppy now...a new Yorkie..I fell in love with the breed through the experience with our foster dog. Sorry so long but the message is heart felt.