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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  It sounds like your mind is made up, but I can tell you that your vet did not have specific breed training in yorkies. Most vets learn specifics about Yorkies from good yorkie breeders. While he is correct that puppies need early human socialization, they get this through the breeder, another reason why chosing a knowledgable breeder is important. Don't forget the YTCA is the mother club for the Yorkie, they are they experts and work closely with good vets on what’s best for these dogs, and they recommend a minimum of 12 weeks, so this means that your breeder has chosen to ignore the word of the mother club, and wants to make her own rules, based on other breed knowledge, or even allow buyers to decide what's best. By the way, as long as the yorkie hasn't been abused by humans, yorkies will no problem bonding with you, why do you think we have named them little Velcro dogs? |
I have to agree with this statement. I currently own 2 Yorkies who were abused in their younger years, whom I feel have totally bonded with me. It wasn't easy and did take a lot of work and consideration on my part to figure out their problems and to work through the roadblocks, but when they learn that they can trust you implicitly, and they know you love them, they will return that love tenfold.
As their early history is a big unknown, and from some of the problems I've witnessed with them, I will assume they did not spend the recommended amount of time with their moms and littermates, which led to inappropriate behaviors developing in the first place. Which then could have very well led to their abuse (using the wrong training methods to try to correct bad/unwanted behaviors).
It is sad to think all this could have been avoided by allowing them to spend the appropriate amount of time with their moms and siblings, and maybe that would have prevented them being dumped/turned over to the Humane Society in the first place.
The lessons that puppies learn from their moms and littermates between the ages of 8-12 weeks are critical to the pup's overall wellbeing, and it so much more important than any bonding experience with humans at that stage in their development. Yorkies are amazing little dogs, and can adapt to just about any situation. It's just easier on all involved to allow Mother Nature to do her job.
Don't you think that through all the years and years of people breeding and raising Yorkies for them to come up with the idea to wait till after the 12th week that there is a good reason for doing so? Don't you think that issues have been evaluated and experiments done to the point of exhaustion to find the best method of raising a Yorkie so that their health and mental wellbeing is at the best level when they do get to their new homes? Thereby creating the best overall environment to give them a wonderful start in their new life, and to be the best pet they can be, without the owners having to train and correct behaviors that should never have developed in the first place?
Bonding will occur much more rapidly between and owner and a well adjusted pup, than it will between an owner and a pup who has issues, not that it can't be done, bc it can, it just takes more work and more time, on the owner's part.