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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  Not judging you just going by the Yorkshire Terrier Club of America and personal experience. A good breeder follows the breeding club of there breed. |
I am going to say I have never fallen for the appeal to authority fallacy. I really could care less what any authoritative figure in any group says if it doesn't meet my protocols for sound reasoning.
So The YTCA says so isn't going to cut it for me.
However, as I said in my first post, I understood and agreed with waiting due to potential hypoglycemic issues puppies of toy breeds are known to be prone to, and some of the breeders on this site added other health concerns that a good breeder would be aware of, and would wait until at least 12 weeks to let their puppies go so that these problems will NOT be problems for the buyer.
All of these made sense to me and again, I agreed with them. Not because someone else said so, with no reason given as to why they are saying so that makes sense to me, but health reasons given that make complete sense that any one should be able to understand even if they do not agree with them.
When I am out and about with my puppies, people fall in love with them, they want to know where they can get one just like my guy and girls (I have added a papillon and a rescue maltese to my pack), they want information, and now
I can help educate people and steer them away from pet stores, puppy mills and back yard breeders by emphasizing a GOOD breeder will NOT let a puppy go before 12 weeks, because of THESE reasons, and give them reasons that they can understand.
Like myself, many of these people have had dogs before, many of them have gotten puppies at 8 weeks, and many of them think that 12 weeks is an arbitrary age and do not believe the behavioral reasons often cited. However, health concerns are not subjective, as I said, and
when facts about potential health issues are pointed out to them, they are much more willing to listen, and even follow the advise to get a puppy from a breeder who, among other things, waits 12 weeks to release their puppies.
I'm not sure how this has been going on for years, this particular thread is over a year (by a few months), yes, but not over two. Someone posted on my old thread to me, and I answered them, as it popped up in a search I was doing on health tests, not because I like looking over old threads I have made.
And why would anyone want their eyes poked out because of a thread from someone that is AGREEING that 12 weeks is a good idea, and because of this thread more reasons are given than just hypoglycemia, behavioral aspects and because the YTCA says so is a mystery to me.
More education should be a good thing, not something that exasperates anyone. More people knowing that at 8 weeks a yorkie puppy's teeth may not be fully erupted is a good thing. More people knowing that at 8 weeks, a puppy has not lost passive immunity from maternal antibodies and so is still highly susceptible to parvo, but at 12 weeks is likely building their own active immunity is a good thing. Breeders knowing that by 12 weeks a puppy has not shown signs of liver shunt is a good thing.