I am also amazed and very sad at how many people are bringing their Yorkies home so young. I am very active on a Maltese forum and we occasionally see a puppy that comes home at 6-8 weeks, but it is not the norm. It seems here on YT to be the opposite, that it is more unusual to hear of a puppy that doesn't come home until twelve weeks.
I think a lot of the problem is all the backyard breeders producing Yorkies because they are so popular and people not researching the breed or the breeder before buying.
What I find the most amazing, though, is all the people who come here before bringing their puppy home that still bring home a puppy before 12 weeks. I've lost count of the number of times I have posted the 12 week rule taken directly from the YTCA, only to have it ignored.
