First of all, welcome!
Now I have to agree with the marking issues. Knowing what I know now, I would never breed my male if I wanted to continue to keep him as a pet. From what I understand, the breeders that use their own males, handle them differently. I wasn't aware of this problem until after I bred my male toy poodle many years ago. We too just wanted to get a puppy out of it for a friend of mine. He turned into a marking machine, let me tell you. I didn't even realize that was why until I got on this chat board. Then it all fell into place. I didn't even know anything about belly bands that I could have used on him until I learned it here. I just wouldn't want to have to use belly bands on my Yorkie every day just because he's marking due to the breeding issue. In my opinion, you really might be better off finding another puppy to have as a playmate. Maybe one from the same parents since you're so happy with how this baby has turned out?
Good luck!
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