Hi everybody,
I'm so glad I found this forum - I've found most everyone to be so nice and helpful and fun, I just can't believe it. :-) So THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!
Me and my human man decided to get a little doggie man, and we named him Nikko. We went through about a million names, most of them Japanese-sounding (love those crisp easy-to-hear syllables), but we decided Nikko was the perfect blend of masculine and cute. I couldn't figure out if there was a translation for it though, so if anyone speaks Japanese on here, could you let me know if it's a real word at all?
But anyways, he's 12 weeks old and a bit of a mutt... So far as we know, he's 3/4 yorkie and 1/4 poodle, so I'm thinking a lot of the Yorkie-specific advice on YT will probably apply to him - which is why I'm here. Well, that and how awesome everybody on YT is! :-) We have had him for just over 24 hours now - one evening, a night, and a day. He loves his crate so long as he can see one of us in the room with him, and we are going to convince him that outside is the place for his pee and poop.
He's scared of everything and curious about everything at the same time, so he most often chooses to perch himself on one of us and look around at everything from up there, where it's safer. He also has bat ears - whoever trimmed him before we got him did the ear shaving thing, although they stand up just fine on their own.
Here are the pictures - from day one and day two. The girl in the pic is obviously me (Lauren), and the guy in the other pic is my human man, Paul. I'm so happy we work out of our home, so we don't have to leave Nikko during the day - I don't know if I could do it if I had to!
PS: What is a DH? Dumb husband? Darling Husband? Dog helper? Paul and I have been trying to figure it out for a few days now, keep seeing it in people's posts.