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Originally Posted by grumpylilmoose  Vet check up next week.
Her teeth are great but will still have vet look at them.
She is young and tires out Connor our 4 month sheltie puppy.
We have looked on Craigslist for an owner no luck!
Its not that we don't want to give her back, we just are scared.
Can someone shoot me a Pm with their e mail so they can post for me? I'm on a cellphone |
What are you scared of? I'm not understanding that. And again, I thank you for giving her good care. Yorkies can appear to have good teeth to the untrained eye but a vet can recognize gum disease and decay and things our untrained eyes can't see. I'd get her to the vet sooner than next week if she's that skinny, she could have a serious medical condition - Yorkies are predisposed to pancreatitis and other GI conditions and often are VERY picky eaters. Others have a lot of itching conditions and allergies. Her being skin and bones worries me she may be dehydrated and badly in need of medical care soon. With a small dog, they can lose electrolytes and glucose, other things so quickly, I'd get her in tomorrow to be sure she's got expert eyes assessing her and scanning her. If she's been out on the run or come in contact with other dogs, she could have been exposed to heartworm or already have it from before. That affects the heart and can cause them to lose weight, get very ill if advanced.
You really should post flyers and an online add yourself anywhere you can to try to find the owner. The dog could have been staying with friends while the sick owner was hospitalized from an attack or surgery and the dog escaped or was stolen from its yard, then escaped from the thief. All ways for dogs to get away as you likely know if you have ever had a small dog. Someone's very heart could be breaking right now because their little sweetheart has been lost and they've been running ads in the paper or posting online on many sites - or they aren't computer literate. All kinds of things could happen to separate this dog from its rightful owner. Once you make a concerted, true effort to locate the rightful owner and have no takers, then you can know that you did all that you could and used the due diligence that you would hope someone who found one of your babies would use if they found one of your big dogs. If I were you I would have her scanned for a chip, call local shelters and Animal Control, local vets and post an add on Craigslist and anywhere else I could find to post.
I know all of us Yorkie owners here would want a good effort by you to find any one of us if it were our dog you found. Nobody wants to think of someone finding their dog and saying well, we're scared and we looked a bit around and on Craigslist and she's ours now.