[yorkietalkjilly]

Have been spot-scanning most threads lately due to eye problems but am I right in understanding that you have had your dog now for almost two months and are not just now learning of her problems, yet considering returning her? I re-read a couple things today that makes me understand now that you are not in the 72 hour window of just having purchased a new puppy you've just had into the vet for it's initial well-puppy once-over, just found these things out. You have apparently had your dog for about two months and are just now thinking of returning her? If that is right, that materially changes things. Time to think of some more things.

If I'm wrong, I apologize, but if that is true and if you have had her that long and knew of her problems but found out a couple more things or that something is a little worse than you'd been originally told, it seems to me that morally that little girl is yours now. I don't follow new puppy purchases and things here on YT that closely and was thinking from your OP on this thread you had just gotten your dog within the last couple days, found all of this out and realizing you maybe bit off more than you could chew medical expense-wise. But it now seems on doing some more reading today that's not the case and the dog has been in your care and custody for quite some considerable time. That being the case, it's time to think of this: A young little dog that has lived with you, acknowledged you as its new mommy/pack leader and become fond of you, trusts you and you love it to bits cannot now be returned to its breeder whom you now are understanding is less than stellar. At this late date, that is not really a choice anymore for several reasons. Sure, if you've just gotten a dog and found out it's very ill, maybe going to have lots of problems and you've just walked out of the vet clinic in shock realizing how you'd just recently been hoodwinked into thinking you'd gotten a very healthy, mixed-breed dog from a wonderful breeder and wanting to return the dog/get a full refund is still an understandable option one can consider when money might be very tight, especially if you've essentially just been given a death sentence for the dog during the well-puppy check-up.

But when you've known about the conditions, (and apparently now I understand the dog doesn't really even have a diagnosis of hydrocephalus so probably isn't in imminent danger of dying) you've lived with and cared for a baby for months, come to love and adore it, knows her quirks and little ways of behaving, nuzzling and cuddling, her night noises, know her feel and her cute personality, you know you won't be able to take her back some two months later and come home and still live with yourself! You'll miss that baby something fierce! It will cut you in two. Two months! That's a long time to grow an awful lot of love all around your heart and through your every single pore. I'm telling you from the experience of having returned a vet-diagnosed dog as near dying to a breeder within hours of buying her for a full refund, it hurts terribly. It hurts even when you've just barely met your dream dog - let alone when you've had her all this time and come to love her every fiber.

If you really have had her a long time, had time to know and adjust to her imperfections and birth defects, now is really the time to just love and nurse her through it with the help of the best veterinary care you can obtain. Once they've got your heart, in reality money concerns do move very, very far far far down the ladder even for very poor doglovers, who gladly incur debt where their dog's care and happiness are concerned. I know you are probably trying to think practically but now, two months in, is really too late for that - now is the time to just gather up your little girl, give her lots of TLC and seek out the best vets you can to learn how to best treat and protect her for the rest of her life. Sometimes the ones with the problems and the ones we have to be so careful around, spend so much time caring for, come to mean the very most to us, knowing how fragile life can be sometimes. And you purpose in your heart to give them the best life possible and set out to make it happen for them.