OK.....no "mean comments", no bashing, no criticism.....just a mature, rational approach, just facts to address your request for advice: Did you read any material at all before this purchase, ESPECIALLY in light of your experiencs with your first puppy? I am curious what in the world led you to this particular breed? Yorkies are essentially like children and want to be every much as integrated into your life as a child would be! Being a responsible pet owner involves committment to that pet. That goes with any breed....but Yorkies are not like any other breed. They MUST have an owner that is as completely devoted and loyal to them, as they are to their owner. That does require a sense of responsibility and accountability to that baby....that little soul deserves NO LESS than an owner that at the very least, thinks of him in the very same thought and breath as you think of yourself. Yorkies do not thrive if they are not adored and included in the new owners life, as an INTRICATE AND IMPORTANT part of the family. Behavioral issues and separation anxiety behavior will evolve in what was a perfectly well adjusted little dog! My advise to you or anyone with this same sense of overwhelming constraints on your " unbridled, young, carefree, spontaneous, lifestyle", would be to allow that baby to go back to the breeder, so he can be placed with someone that does put him and his needs above their own. That will allow this beautiful baby, who seems so very well adjusted and with very few of the generally accepted and expected "puppy behavioral faults", to blossom and grow into a well adjusted, well socialized, loving, devoted, loyal, involved and included, family member. This baby does not deserve to be short changed. I just dont think you are at a place in your life where you are ready to give that total committment to ANY other soul, be it mate, child, or pet. No bashing or critisizing....just my personal feelings and advise...if I was the breeder, and it was my baby, I would want that baby back, so he could be placed where he would get 100% committment from a new owner. But I do want to add....do some research on different breeds before you choose another puppy. Wait until you actually feel in your heart that you are ready to accept another life into your own realm of existance, so that you do not have the resentment you feel now ie., your coming and going unrestrained by the wants or needs of another living thing is more of an inconvenience than a joy....When the wants and needs and demands of a puppy surpasses your own desires, then you are ready to include a puppy into your lifestyle. I am sorry if you feel I have beat you up on this...as a breeder, and as someone that is completely devoted to this breed and responsible for any baby that is ever brought into this world by what I do as a breeder, I will ALWAYS come down on the side of the puppy.....the puppy has my thoughts and concerns for what is best for the puppy, first and foremost, above all else. You are an adult, you are a human, you are a thinking, reasoning entity, completly capable of independence and not relying on another human being....that puppy is not that fortunate. That baby was dependent on the breeder to select the very best life circumstance and forever home to send that baby into. In the event THAT fails, it is on YOUR conscience to do what is best for that baby. |