[DvlshAngel985]

I understand that being a newbie is pretty scary and intimidating. Especially when you know little and then are bombarded with information, it gets overwhelming. The party analogy is a perfect example. I am a member here, another yorkie site (I don't visit at all), and a car site that I resigned. My reason for leaving the car site was that I did what someone else suggested, lurked, read up on other forums and saw what the style was and to be honest, I didn't feel welcome. It wasn't because my car wasn't good enough, or that I didn't work on it enough, it was because I'm a girl. After spending some time I came to realize that the general feel for that site on the girl topic was: girls can't drive stick, so really they should stop trying; girls are only to be there to show pics of them in mini skirts sitting in front of their cars; and after attending a meetup and getting the cold shoulder by all the members (they only spoke to my brothers who came with me) I said enough is enough. I gave it a shot, it's just not for me.
I'm sorry that those that have mixes have a negative view of some of the members and think they have something that is not welcomed here. It really should be the opposite. I for one don't care if you're dog is purple and green, you deserve to be on this site just as much as I do. I will have to warn all the newbies (and I say that with respect) that it will take a lot of reading to understand where everyone is coming from. We have to read up on you to see where you are coming from, and you read up on us. How else are we going to get to know each other?
Another thing to keep in mind is that what you read is just that, words on a screen. There is no way to really tell if a person is joking, if a person is mad, or if a person is really being talked down to. Sometimes people read what they want into a comment that wasn't meant in a mean spirited way, only because we can't see the face behind the post. If someone calls you a straight up poopie head, then that's another story.
I will say this: I hate it when someone comes in that is seemingly looking for advice, then gets mad when things don't go there way. I want each and every new yorkie mom and dad to have the best yorkie owning experience. We all fall in love with the cute faces and the little running balls of fluff, but... if you come asking for help, and ignore it, it is extremely frustrating. I understand if you come to the site and you already have your 4 week, 6 week, 8 week old yorkie. You didn't know better. Members will mention, "hey, you're baby came to you way to young, please watch out for X and Y. You might want to do A, B, and C." But, and I've seen this a few times in my two years here, when a person comes on and says "I am going to adopt a 8 week old yorkie next week, what help can you offer?" obviously in this case the advice will be "don't do it, and this is why." I for one will always admit that I am not, 100% knowledgeable in all things yorkie. If anything, thanks to this site, I went from 0.0001% to a solid 70%. I know better now. Before coming to this site, my dream was to adopt a newborn pup to be able to "raise him the way I want." I know now that notion is ludicrous! I don't speak dog, I don't know how to teach proper dog manners, I don't know how to communicate with a pup that young and I can guarantee that a pup that young in my care has a 95% mortality rate. I am unprepared, un-knowledgeable, and I don't have any maternal instincts. Wouldn't it be the perfect world if nobody had to come to this site and post something along the lines of "my very young pup is sick, what do I do?" when it can easily be avoided. Granted, there are people that do fine. Those cases are rare and those that do have extremely resilient pups.
One last thing and I'll get off my soapbox, I know you're new and you haven't seen this yet, but there are people that come on here to just to break our hearts. They play with our heads because they think it's silly we care this much about "just a stupid dog." They come on here pretending to have some colorful story about some pup, get us all emotionally involved and invested in helping this poor soul care for a pup, then announce "hey jerks we're just pulling your leg." Or they try to pass off as legitimate rescues, or puppy mills try to cover their behinds and come on here to argue. Over time, and as a community, we've learned to protect the little ones and to protect our hearts. Key words like "teacup, designer, CKC" (not Canada) among others send red flags of future heartache to come. We try our best to warn others so they don't go through the same hardships some of the members went through. I consider myself lucky. This site helped me steer clear of 3 or 4 unethical breeders. The wait was long but well worth it. I credit YorkieTalk for leading me straight to the perfect yorkie for me. He is happy, healthy, and a total doll.
Sorry if this is so long and winded, but I hope you understand at least where I'm coming from. Stick around, read, and enjoy the fun stuff this site has to offer.