[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

Hi Sharon.

I'm glad to hear you're having the pup stay with her mommy for another month. Yorkies can be a real handful early on, even at 12 weeks. I got my Cookie Monster at 13.5 weeks and she is a larger pup and I was still monitoring her really closely those first couple of weeks to be on the lookout for hypoglycemia. I can't imagine how much work it would have been had I got her at 8.5 weeks (though my breeder, Deb Sillers, would have never allowed that!).

I wouldn't sweat the comment from before too much. People here are really friendly and really love dogs, and so many times we have people come here and ask questions and then just stubbornly do what they were going to do anyways. It's so frustrating to us when that happens and it happens over and over here. Most dogs are fine to take home at 8 weeks but yorkies can be so prone to hypoglycemia since they're so small at that age and since they're also so hyper! And parvo is such a huge problem too, you don't want your pup exposed to it in your yard and it could be brought in by neighborhood cats, racoons, skunks, other dogs that have been in the yard, and so on. I didn't know any of this stuff either since before I got Cookie as a puppy I had only rescued, other than a mastiff puppy I got years ago (and no worry about hypoglycemia with that big monster of a pup!).

I hope you stick around here Sharon. This forum was so helpful to me when Cookie was a puppy and can be a great support group too when something bad happens. Yorkietalk and so many of its caring posters (many of whom have posted in this thread) was such a pick me up when my yorkie Minnie died a couple of years ago.

Indeed...this is an awesome forum!