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Originally Posted by dustinleephil  As far as adopting goes, that was the first place I looked, I did find a beautiful 6-8 year old yorkie in a shelter that I posted a thread about a couple months ago, but she was adopted soon after, I have no problem with adopting from a shelter, but being out in the boondocks, its kind of hard to find a certain breed. And I have noticed that some of the shelters or rescues are quite expensive to adopt from. I found a yorkie on petfinder that the adoption fee was around $400... I know it may sound silly put if I'm going to pay that much, I'd rather get a puppy. Anyway, thanks everyone for your advice, I'll probably go with the pure bread, since I've already seen her and held her and fell in love with her. I'm just a little worried about the coat. And thanks for posting pictures, they are all so adorable!
The fist picture is of the pure breads at about 7 weeks? She'll be 8.5 weeks when I get her. She had a little white star on her chest, which I think I read had something to do with what her coat will be like? And the second picture is of the yorkie poos. And I dont want you to get the wrong idea of the breeders. They are really good with their puppies, even if they do mix breeding, which I know is frowned upon by a lot of people. But I love muts, we adopted a Sheltie/Pomeranian from a shelter, I couldn't ask for a better dog. And If i could find a yorkie or yorkie mix that I liked I would adopt it too...I would actually rather adopt one. |
8.5 weeks is WAY too young to bring home a new puppy. They need to be 12-14 weeks old before they leave their mother and litter. Any breeder selling pups younger is a greedy person and breeding for money. AVOID them. Also if you can't afford to pay $400 for a fully vetted shelter dog and think that you'd rather get a puppy for under $400 you are in for a heap of trouble. from experience 400 dollar puppy at 8 weeks old (my sadie was both of these when i got her) will get you a biting, misbehaving, sick, extremely screwed up excuse for a yorkie...you will most likely face health issues and behavior issues for the rest of that dog's life. i'm talking 2000 surgeries and hundreds on dog training.
not worth it. my rescue pup was $350.00 fully vetted with all his shots, neuter, everything was done already. saved me the tons of money doing it all myself and he's the most healthy, happy, and wonderful dog ever. he's now a registered therapy dog with Delta society and the love of my life.
not that i don't love Sadie, but it's not worth it to get a cheap pup from a crappy breeder selling pups that young and selling mixed breeds.