[R_Z]

Greetings! I've been away for a while. Kinda sad story with perhaps a happy ending. Don't know if you'll recall that my wife and I rescued a year and a half old yorkie we named Buddy. Apparently Buddy had been a pretty abused dog from his previous owner. He wouldn't allow my wife and I to be together, my wife couldn't go in to the closet to get dressed, we couldn't leave the house, we were captives. He would bark non stop. It got to where all he would do was bark. We went to classes, read books, tried everything. I refused to use a shock collar. We stuck with it for a few months until my wife finally said she just couldn't take it any more. We reluctantly called the rescue lady and gave him back. My wife cried all the way home.

Well, we decided to be empty nesters for a while. Ever so often, we'd discuss the chance of getting another one and trying again. Today I was browsing Craigslist and a Yorkie came up. I was the 1st to call. They had no papers, just a cute little 6 month old boy. We drove out to see him and of course, brought him home.

Now we are getting used to each other. It's been a while since we've had such a young dog. He's semi house trained, but we'll work around that. Going to take him to the vet next week, get him checked out and make sure he's up to date on everything. Oh and his name is Bailey.

Any tips or information would be welcomed.

Glad to be back!