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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Exactly - they can die while you sleep which is another reason for not bringing home a very young or very tiny young dog. |
Oh! I was putting away dishes when I thought about this statement & wanted OP to know I didn't mean to sound indirectly judgmental of you by the above statement.
I didn't know why it was risky to bring very young small breed puppies home so young either until I learned differently so just because you now have a very young Yorkie puppy that a breeder sent home with you too soon is no fault of yours. Of course there are proper developmental reasons for keeping a pup with its mom/littermates, too. Breeders that sell very young puppies to people likely never mention the reasons they shouldn't be parting the dog from its mother/siblings/round-the-clock observation and unless one is very dog-knowledgeable & savvy, we have no way to know about these issues until we learn.
But, since you do have a very young Yorkie, I wouldn't leave it unattended for very long to be perfectly safe. Odds are, it probably would do fine but knowing things I know now, I wouldn't take the chance in order to best keep that baby as safe as possible.