[livingdustmops]

Jenny,

Yorkie rescue's work for the best interest of the dog, not the person, even if the person would be a great Yorkie owners. Since these little ones have already been tossed out of one home the rescue is very sensitive to finding a permanent forever home. If you live in an area that does not have a lot of Yorkie rescues then the rescue could have a list of 200 - 300 people that would want the dog. While many Yorkie's could do well being left alone for 8 hours a day (if they were brought up that way) the IDEAL home for a rescue would be for the most part no longer than 4 hours because of potty issues and how social these little ones are. The other thing rescue looks at is the age of the person trying to adopt a rescue. Unfortunately, many young people have many life changing events, long hours on jobs, marriage, children and a high number of Yorkie's are turned into rescue because of this. If a rescue adopts a dog to a young person and then they get married and have children and the Yorkie does not like children then there is another problem. Rescue's can be sued if they adopted a dog out that bit a child or a human. Interesting enough there are breeders on YT that have some of the same strict rules that rescue does because they want their little puppies to be in a forever home also.
I know it is difficult for everyone to understand how tough the rules are but for anyone that has worked in rescue and dealt with many of these problems and seen the after effect on these little ones you would understand. You might find the following statistics interesting but I will tell you I don't think a reputable Yorkie Rescue with high guidelines would have the same 50% statistics that national has. Most shelters if you research don't do much in terms of matching the ideal dogs to the ideal family as they are just trying to move as many dogs as they can out of the shelters as they are required by law in some places to only allow the animal so much time. They know many of these dogs will be back but if they can save a % of them then it is better than nothing.

•Only 38% of all dogs and cats will remain in their first home for their entire lives.
•Nationally, over 50% of all adopted animals are no longer in their adoptive home after just the first year.

There never is a question that there are exceptions for every rule and each reputable rescue group has to determine what works for them and what is in the best interest of the dog long term. I agree with Kristy that it does help if people have Yorkie experience.