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This may be confusing but the black is quoted from your post and the blue is new from me.

Originally Posted by yorkie_mama22

This thread is about how long did OTHERS wait to get a dog....

Okay -- you were just asking what other people did. Your original post sure sounds like you are trying to decide what to do for your own situation. Why else would you even post it? When you make comments like: "I have had some people ask me but I just don't know when and if I will be ready? I just feel ashamed to think about it and feel like I am betraying her to even consider another dog. I want to get this dog under control and get her into some training courses and wait til she is a bit more matured before I bring another dog into my house so something like this never ever happens again. But I just love the yorkie breed and I can't think of any other dog I'd want to own. I know though if and when I do decide I am going to go for a larger one. 4.8-5lbs is too small especially how fragile she was."...it sure seems like you are trying to decide what you are going to do ....not just what OTHERS did.


I think you haven't read all the reads, I WAS slammed in another thread by a few individuals I am not making it up,

See this is what I meant when I said, "I think you may have some underlying feelings coming from somewhere besides these posts. " THIS particular thread does not contain slams to you. So your responses seem inappropriate to me. When people are posting care and concern, you seem to accuse them of slamming you and telling you what to do and not to do. That is not the case in THIS thread. If you are bringing old hate from previous threads to this one, that is unfair. You are right, I am sure I have not read all the "reads" as you put it. Who can keep up with the whole forum and still have a life and take care of their own dogs? So, I may have missed some posts. But right now we are talking about THIS thread.

...before I even replied to the threads of the people jumping on me I had SEVERAL PM's from other members that where SHOCKED by the response I have gotten! Please don't comment on particular issues if you don't know, if you go through ALL of my threads you will read my frantic thread about my fiancee rushing Stormy to the vet because she had what we believed was a seizure! This isn't new facts, it's old.

I still am not seeing all of these people jumping on you. If things are being stirred up by PM then maybe that is part of the problem. I did not say the seizure issue was new at all! It was new that you were blaming the death of poor little Stormy on a seizure. I did understand you were saying that after more consideration you had a different theory about how she died. I was merely summarizing the events and AGAIN I did not comment negatively on them.

So what if I rehomed a dog because she wasn't training...

I did not say ANYTHING negative about what you did with the rehoming. I simply included it in your own history. You are the one who said you rehomed it because it "somehow" would get in to your daughter's room and do its business in there. I did not comment positively or negatively on it. It IS part of your small dog history.

As for the surgery yes I said I didn't have the money for surgery, the surgery wasn't mentioned til later on after the nair incident. She was having issues coming up and we were going to the vet, it was a ear infection we thought at first, then it was her eyes, then again her eyes, finally after that she was acting "strange" that is when we went to the vet AGAIN and they said we should PTS so that was the decision made. I thought she was PTS and hours later I got the call she was alive and the new vet thought he could help her. He told me it was going to be very expensive and she would have to stay at the vets, my vet charges 250 per day and he wanted her to stay for several weeks. I am sure lots of people on here couldn't afford that, I did what I thought was the best for my dog and said I would "give" her to him. He didn't just "give" her back to me either, I did pay a few hundred dollars for his services but at a discounted price. ...

Not one judgemental statement was included in my post, just the history as reported by you. The summary was more for those that maybe did not know anything more than Stormy's death. I made sure NOT to judge as I wrote the summary.

.... but just because I ask HOW long OTHERS waited doesn't mean I am saying HOW LONG SHOULD I WAIT. Please don't twist my words, I don't want to sound harsh and there isn't any underlying reasons for me sounding rude or whatever you may take it as. I am just upset that people would talk to me the way they have when the people who know me best know I did what I could for my dog and that I cared for her very deeply.


I did NOT twist your words at all. I have tried to get you to realize you are bringing some other threads excess baggage to THIS thread and accusing people of things that are NOT true here. If you are going to continue to bring every negative feeling you have ever had into every new thread, then why bother to post? Instead, try to enter each new thread with a fresh frame of mind. Think positively that people DO want to help. The negativity in this thread is coming from you. People IN THIS THREAD have commended you, congratulated you and complimented your efforts. They have given sympathy for poor little Stormy and your own sense of loss. You say people blamed the bully and that is not true either. There are no negative posts here about the bully. Even if it did hurt Stormy accidently, I do not think anyone would blame the bully.

...After asking him and him explaining to me how it played out I realized that maybe we had misjudged the situation, am I not allowed to say I think something else may of happen?

No one said anything otherwise. Of course you can change your story. No one said that you could not. What I did want you to realize is that your whole story from start to finish IS DIFFICULT to follow. So, you should not go off on people if they miss a detail here or there.

I don't have a dangerous dog and she is not a threat to my child, theres people out there with more vicious dogs and have kids. I understand very well what people say, and I said I appreciate it, I take all feedback in and some of it just rubs me the wrong way, I can sometimes read between the lines.

Maybe you are reading TOO MUCH between the lines. I still do not see where anyone told you that your bullie is dangerous or a threat to your child. Maybe that was one of the other "reads" I missed? But again, don't bring old stuff into a new thread. If someone only makes a passing remark about the bullie, do not read between the lines and make it a negative comment. Do not think just because someone tries to summarize a history they are somehow making negative remarks about each part of that history. Just sit back and relax a little. I know this is an emotional time. But don't let that emotional state have you snapping at everyone who posts to your threads. You will wind up having no one answer you anymore because they won't want to take a chance at getting their heads bitten off by your tirades.

A horrible thing happened. If I were you, I would try to learn as much from the tragedy as possible. Let Stormy at least provide a lesson for future situations, whether you decide to get another dog or not. Let Stormy's sweet way of endearing so many people to her situation OPEN lines of communication to help you learn more about dog ownership, training, and potential breeding. Try to see the glass half full instead of half empty when you read a post. Do not think everyone is out to get you. These are my suggestions. You can do, say, or decide anything you want. But try to remember that it is the wisest person who understands they should continue to learn. Good luck to you and any animals you decide to own.