well.....first.....hello to all of you incredibly educated, helpful people!!! i'm courtney and my sweet yorkie is lulu. she was born 9/13/09 and we brought her home just before thanksgiving. (yes...i actually do know that she shouldn't have come home that young but only because i learned it here after i already had her!!
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fortunately, things have gone well for us with but a few minor issues.....(can you say tapeworms?
) i'm telling you without this site i'm positive i'd have suffered some sort of spontaneous combustion the first time i saw a MOVING THING in my BABIES POOP!
in all seriousness, i cannot begin to tell you how much help and just how enjoyable this place has been for me. i was raised in a dog-loving family and grew up with dogs and always loved my childhood dogs but the fact, is for whatever reason, i have bonded with lulu like i've never bonded with any animal in all of my life! i am closing in on 40 and am sole parent of four human kids whom i love immeasurably of course, but even they will tell you i'm ape over this little girl!
i have never had such a tiny dog as lulu is and over the years, i can actually recall sort of turning my nose up whenever i'd see people carrying these little furballs around....and i remember thinking how ridiculous it was to see a dog in a dress or coat (and a hairbow..are you kidding me?!) .....and god knows i especially remember thinking that anybody who actually bought a darn purse for gadzooks amount of money simply to tote their dog around wherever they went was a complete loon!
well.....
zero did I know!!! can i tell you i'm currently on an absolutely obsessed months-long mission to track down a kwigy-bo for dirt cheap (based on reviews and advice here, of course) so i can forever-after sneak lulu with me into absolutely anyplace i may need enter!! and another thing.....i spend hours oohing and ahhing over adorable sweaters and coats! just the other day i told the kids...."holy smokes guys, it's raining and lulu has no raincoat! somebody run in the house and get the umbrella, quickly!" they laughed (happens a lot, that) and said "how come you never cared if we got wet?"
they love her as much as i do. she has been a complete god-send to us and i just want to make sure i take the best care of her as is possible. i'm a total geek-writer-researcher and i'd been reading on the care of yorkies for months but finding this place was just a god-send on top of a god-send!
not to go on forever, but just in case any other new person reads this....here's an example of something i learned here that very literally could have saved lulu's life: i had bought hartz ultra guard flea and tick drops so as to treat lulu for fleas since i learned from you guys that the tapes were a result of fleas. i thought i was being proactive, on the ball, prepared purchasing the stuff before i needed it. well.....before i went to administer it i thought, wait a second...let me check my favorite wisdom well of all things yorkie related...yorkie talk, of course....to make sure this is safe for my baby. don't you know i immediately stuck that stuff back in the drawer to return to wal-mart without bothering to open the package! hartz=NEVER!
so......basically.....THANK YOU for being here! THANK YOU for being so endlessly generous with the doling out of advice no matter how many times a subject matter comes up. THANK YOU for the wealth of knowledge that is filed and organized and easy to understand on issues from food to haircare and grooming to well.....just....every single thing under the sun!!!
i have always known that animal lovers were some of the coolest people on the planet, but you yorkie lovers are simply cooler than cool. i realize you don't come here to help because you need the thank you that (i certainly hope) follows, but i felt moved to offer mine anyway.
in many ways, most of which mere words cannot adequately describe, lulu has healed my heart of a deep trauma. i simply cannot imagine life without her and i will do anything and everything to ensure that she has a long, healthy, happy life. having a resource like yorkie talk replaces the stress i felt (worrying i would do something wrong or harm her in some way) with a confidence and peace that indeed, i can be a good mom to her even though she's the first yorkie i ever held, much less owned!
i appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
p.s. i haven't set up my profile but will add pics of lulu soon! and also.....i want to say to Cookie2/Gen, that i have read every single post regarding your lost cookie, have been praying for weeks for his safe return, and even though i live in virginia......i do about a triple take whenever i see a yorkie that even slightly resembles that boy, and ever scour the local cl ads. in fact, my kids are fully aware to be on the look-out, too! we hope and pray he you are reunited soon!!
WOW....apologies for such an epic post but i needed to get these thoughts off my chest and figured new years eve was the perfect time to do it! after all, i refuse to go to the church function i normally would because i'm still on the hunt for my kwigy-bo and i won't let lulu ring in the new year alone! priorities!!!