I am so happy to see this turn into a happy thread about everyone's rescue stories.
I have three and love them all.
Pebbles was a rehome. My friend gave her to me when she decided she didn't have the time for her. If I wasn't going to take her she was going to the shelter. She was 5 months old when I brought her home. Not a true rescue but she surely isn't a standard yorkie at 11 lbs! She has papers that some thing are so important but, unless you plan on having their "papers" framed and attached to their neck really what difference does it make? There are YTers that have purchased from a breeder and ended up with a 10, 12 or 20 lb. yorkie which goes to show you just never know what you are going to end up with in the end.
Then there is Doodlebug-
I was very fortunate to
adopt a puppy from a rescue and I realize that is not the norm, but then again I didn't have a long list of requirements on age, sex, color , weight, etc. He is a Morkie and his mom was purchased from an Amish Puppy Mill auction while she was pregnant with his litter. He was a puppy at only 10 wks when I brought him home from the rescue and is a doll. He is from a mill but I would say that many, many people right here on YT have purchased their puppies from pet shops aka puppy mills. So as far as I'm concerned he is not inferior to any other pet on YT. I was not looking for a specific size, color, or age, it was all by chance that I found him. We did drive to OH to pick him up but worth the 7 hour drive. He is very smart and beautiful to me. The sad thing is that it's been almost a year since his mom was saved and she is still at the rescue. She is absolutely a beautiful Maltese but at least she is still not living a life in a cage making puppies.
Finally Bogey-
I found him right here on YT in the rescue section!
JillandJack posted pictures of him and they thought he was a Yorkie but when I went to look at him he was also a Morkie. We think he is somewhere around 2 He was tossed onto the side of the road during the horrible flooring in IN back in September. He was a total mess! Matted, nails grown into his paws, extremely underweight, and he has a rubberband in his hair that was actually rotten. He is still a work in progress but he is mommies favorite (just don't tell the others)
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1. Pebbles
2. Doodlebug
3 & 4. Bogey on the way home and then about a month ago.
Thank you to everyone that posted pictures, stories and their support of rescue! There are so many more little ones in shelters right now. The way that I look at it is they just need love and if you have love to give they will give back 1000x's over. LadyJane you are so correct about not being able to tell just by looking which are rescues and which are not. They all just need love.