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Please, please, please think really hard about this purchase. No matter how sweet this elderly lady is, it does not appear that this is a good environment to purchase your yorkie from.

As others have said, there are so many red flags that you have mentioned in your posts that I was actually sitting here shaking my head, mentally willing you to take a step back and look at the situation. I can tell from what you have said that you are already emotionally attached to this pup (I know, one look at that little face and it's sooo hard not to fall in love immediately).

But just look at the facts.

Yorkies are not cheap dogs. We all know that. Logically, if you are going to breed these dogs, you are NOT going to feed them something cheap like Ol' Roy. Taking away the fact that nutritionally it stinks, it logically follows that if you can't afford or don't care enough about your animals to feed something better than this, you don't care enough to be breeding. Period.

Crating for housetraining is fine. Crating all day long because you have too many animals to properly care for is a whole different animal. This means you are going to have a puppy that is not properly socialized, and most likely taken from its mother too early, which means he wasn't taught alot of things that mother dogs do. Like bite control. It's cute when he's little. It's not cute when he weighs 7 lbs and has a full set of teeth.

As a breeder, I am hoping you will be able to pull your heartstrings back, and take a good look at what you may be setting yourself up for. You have a good chance of being heartbroken with this little furbaby. I understand that you want to rescue him from this situation, but please reconsider. At the very least, if you risk it and bring him home for the weekend, don't look at him with rose-colored glasses. If he is fearful, doesn't have a clue about housetraining even with all the "crate-time" he's had at this point, and easily startled with new experiences or tries to hide, it is not a good sign. As much as you might want to keep him from being where he is, remember, you CANNOT make up for what he has experienced during his first 12 weeks. There is no replacing it. If you have the experience, you can help him to modify what he has missed, but you cannot take it back and make it happen for him again.

I wish you the best of luck and I hope things turn out well. My heart goes out to you over what you're going through.

~Twitterpate