I do not place my small Yorkies with families who have kids under 12 or sometimes older. My reasonings are these......first, the very thing that can make a child a good Yorkie owner (well, parents are owners but kids in the home are also part of that ownership) is the very thing that makes them BAD Yorkie police. The sweetest and gentlest child is not gonna be able to make their friends behave or change a behavior that is a no-no with these small/tiny Yorkies.
Here is another consideration in my book.
I mean...an adult cannot and SHOULD not stay right with a young child when they have friends playing anywhere in the home or yard. Children learn to be individuals by forming independent relationships with their own age groups. The parent must either spend every second with the dog OR with the children..your child might be a very sweet kind loving child, but you cannot count on them, nor should you, to be responsible for policing their friends.
Kids by nature are rambunctous no matter how many times we tell them "NO RUNNING IN THE HOUSE. YOU MIGHT STEP ON THE DOG OR TRIP OVER HER!"
I call these "uah situations" as in "UAH, watch the dog!" . There are other situations when a child should not have to stop play in the middle of a very fun game because the dog is in the way and parent(s) are trying to reinforce some rule about the pup/dog.
Of course, everyone has an opinion about this and this post is mine...someone else will sell their puppy to you, I am sure...but, basically your little one can have an equally bad fright with one of these little "terrors"...Ya gotta love them...both kids and dogs.. |