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Originally Posted by Tessa Arnold  i now know that you should not get your puppies until they are 12 weeks. i got Jackson at 6 weeks. don't yell at me, i didn't know, lol. hopefully their puppy will adjust as well as mine has. He is 4 1/2 months old now. He pees only on his peepads, most of the time, he knows his name, he knows "cheerios". he can sit and beg. he has his little quirks like they all do. i don't regret it at all, although its possible i have been very lucky that he didn't get sick or anything from being taken away from mom too early. i would have changed nothing. he was a little more difficult at first because he didn't get all the motherly advice from his mom, but fortunatly we have alot of time to spend with him. He's never alone for more than a couple hours at a time.
sorry this is so choppy.
as far as teacup, i don't understand what the problem is. not everything in this world has to be politically correct so to speak.
please no one blast me, i'm just speaking my mind. |
At least now you know why it's recommended that puppies stay with mom till 12 weeks. I bet it would of made your first weeks with Jackson a lot easier. As far as teacup, it's not that the dogs do or don't fit in the teacup that makes the word so troublesome. It's the fact that some people literrally think that yorkies should be this teeny tiny size and fail to realize that dogs are living beings and like living beings they grow and don't follow charts. When an unscrupulous breeder uses this teacup term, they mislead the public to believe that their yorkies will be "Paris Hilton" teeny purse dogs. (no bigger than 4 lbs I'm assuming) The more popular this notion became, the more these greeders bred for this type of dog without considering the dogs health and only focusing on size. However, tinnies do happen and there is nothing wrong with owning a tiny dog.
Just giving you the other side of the coin.
