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DianeSch · 02-11-2013, 05:29 PM

Hi Everyone - I have been coming to Yorkie Talk for a number of years for advice and thought that the time has come to become an active member. I really value this forum as a place to go for advice. A little about myself - I have been a yorkie mama for about 9 years. My husband and myself are also great German Shepherd Lovers and about 11 years ago we purchased a purebred show quality German Shepherd and she was the love of our entire family and neighborhood. Our Shepherd bonded with my husband and went everywhere with him (including work everyday). I wanted my own "lap dog" and our vet recommended a Yorkie because of their big dog personality and she felt that this little bundle would fit in with our Shepherd. So about 9 years ago I brought Cosmo home. He is a 6 1/2 lb traditional yorkie that took over our hearts and our home. We bred and raised shepherd pups but after 6 years we lost our shepherd to a stroke and it broke our hearts - but Cosmo was their and he was a great help in our therapy - even though he also had lost a good friend. After a bit of time we brought another Show quality Shepherd but to after a couple of years we lost her to a very rare seizure problem. We were heartbroken and so was Cosmo - SO that is how we brought Zoey into our home. Cosmo was so lost without a friend at home and we were to heartbroken to bring another Shepherd home at that time so I decided to get Cosmo a little girl yorkie as a companion. So 2 years ago I went back to the same breeder that I got Cosmo from - because I so loved everything about him - and came home with my little girl Zoey. She was a hit from the start. While there to pick up Zoey when we were bringing her home - our breeder was starting to breed both the traditional and the parti yorkies. She had a little boy there that was just a peanut and walked right up to my husband and he fell in love. I informed them that we already had our boy and our breeded said that she was going to keep this little boy with her as a stud. My husband said that if she decided to not keep him to call us first. Well we went home and for a few weeks and the telephone rang and it was the breeder that had decided to not keep the litter after all- due to some family issues - and said that she was giving up first choice on our Reno. I said that we were happy with our two but my husband wanted to go and look and I knew....... Anyway when we went - here was this tiny little parti yorkie and my husband was in love. She was asking top dollar because of his coloring, size, personality, etc and I told her that I didn't think we could afford a 3rd dog so soon. She suggested to me - since I bred German Shepherds, why didn't I try my hand at breeding the yorkie and that Reno was of no relation to Zoey by girl. Anyway after much consideration that is what I thought we might do and we came home with Reno. He is a parti color little stud and is now almost two years old and weighs in at a bit 2 lbs 6 ozs. Talk about a little peanut with a big personality. But we were in love. I mentioned to the breeder that if I was going to try my hand at this that if she ever had a great coloring parti female of no relation to my Reno to give me a call. She did after about a year and now we have Kyra also. She is my parti female and she didn't get as big as I was hoping (5 lbs) to bred - she is currently 3 lbs 1 oz at a little over a year. She has a personality and looks like she is smiling all the time. Her coat is the thickest coat I have ever seen on a yorkie. I recently took them all to the vet for shots, check-ups and I was afraid that breeding her at around 3 1/2 pounds would be to small but our vet thinks it would be fine because our male is only 2.6 lbs. I have waited the two years to make sure that my dogs have the maturity level and to make sure that there are no health issues so I just bred Zoey and Reno together. This Friday Zoey will go in for an ultrasound since this will be my first "little" dog whelping and I am a little nervous about the delicate nature of these small pups. But it is exciting at our house. I told my kids that the size of our dogs full grown are the size of our Shepherd pups when we were breeding them. So - besides my 6 kids and 3 grandkids - that is our family. With the new pups coming I am hoping that I will be able to get advice from all of you out there. I so love this bred of dog and my biggest fear and that of not being able to adopt the pups out and wanting to keep them ourselves - but I told the kids we are going to be strong. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to join this community.

02-11-2013, 05:29 PM	#1
DianeSch YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Minnesota Posts: 9	Hi-Introducing Myself! Hi Everyone - I have been coming to Yorkie Talk for a number of years for advice and thought that the time has come to become an active member. I really value this forum as a place to go for advice. A little about myself - I have been a yorkie mama for about 9 years. My husband and myself are also great German Shepherd Lovers and about 11 years ago we purchased a purebred show quality German Shepherd and she was the love of our entire family and neighborhood. Our Shepherd bonded with my husband and went everywhere with him (including work everyday). I wanted my own "lap dog" and our vet recommended a Yorkie because of their big dog personality and she felt that this little bundle would fit in with our Shepherd. So about 9 years ago I brought Cosmo home. He is a 6 1/2 lb traditional yorkie that took over our hearts and our home. We bred and raised shepherd pups but after 6 years we lost our shepherd to a stroke and it broke our hearts - but Cosmo was their and he was a great help in our therapy - even though he also had lost a good friend. After a bit of time we brought another Show quality Shepherd but to after a couple of years we lost her to a very rare seizure problem. We were heartbroken and so was Cosmo - SO that is how we brought Zoey into our home. Cosmo was so lost without a friend at home and we were to heartbroken to bring another Shepherd home at that time so I decided to get Cosmo a little girl yorkie as a companion. So 2 years ago I went back to the same breeder that I got Cosmo from - because I so loved everything about him - and came home with my little girl Zoey. She was a hit from the start. While there to pick up Zoey when we were bringing her home - our breeder was starting to breed both the traditional and the parti yorkies. She had a little boy there that was just a peanut and walked right up to my husband and he fell in love. I informed them that we already had our boy and our breeded said that she was going to keep this little boy with her as a stud. My husband said that if she decided to not keep him to call us first. Well we went home and for a few weeks and the telephone rang and it was the breeder that had decided to not keep the litter after all- due to some family issues - and said that she was giving up first choice on our Reno. I said that we were happy with our two but my husband wanted to go and look and I knew....... Anyway when we went - here was this tiny little parti yorkie and my husband was in love. She was asking top dollar because of his coloring, size, personality, etc and I told her that I didn't think we could afford a 3rd dog so soon. She suggested to me - since I bred German Shepherds, why didn't I try my hand at breeding the yorkie and that Reno was of no relation to Zoey by girl. Anyway after much consideration that is what I thought we might do and we came home with Reno. He is a parti color little stud and is now almost two years old and weighs in at a bit 2 lbs 6 ozs. Talk about a little peanut with a big personality. But we were in love. I mentioned to the breeder that if I was going to try my hand at this that if she ever had a great coloring parti female of no relation to my Reno to give me a call. She did after about a year and now we have Kyra also. She is my parti female and she didn't get as big as I was hoping (5 lbs) to bred - she is currently 3 lbs 1 oz at a little over a year. She has a personality and looks like she is smiling all the time. Her coat is the thickest coat I have ever seen on a yorkie. I recently took them all to the vet for shots, check-ups and I was afraid that breeding her at around 3 1/2 pounds would be to small but our vet thinks it would be fine because our male is only 2.6 lbs. I have waited the two years to make sure that my dogs have the maturity level and to make sure that there are no health issues so I just bred Zoey and Reno together. This Friday Zoey will go in for an ultrasound since this will be my first "little" dog whelping and I am a little nervous about the delicate nature of these small pups. But it is exciting at our house. I told my kids that the size of our dogs full grown are the size of our Shepherd pups when we were breeding them. So - besides my 6 kids and 3 grandkids - that is our family. With the new pups coming I am hoping that I will be able to get advice from all of you out there. I so love this bred of dog and my biggest fear and that of not being able to adopt the pups out and wanting to keep them ourselves - but I told the kids we are going to be strong. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to join this community.