I personally would be very weary of buying a Yorkie from an inexperienced breeder. Good breeders do health testing, so you limit the chances of you dog inheriting a serious and expensive illness. For example, one common thing with Yorkies is luxating patella, the knees slips out the joint and doesn't always go back in. Surgery to fix one knee is a minimum of $1000 and they have to be confined for a long time while the knee heals.
You are correct about pee pads, but that’s for the human’s convenience, so that you don’t have to worry about coming home from work and letting you dog out, but Yorkies can be trained to go outside like any other dog. Do you work? Personally, it might be better to get an older dog, has passed a health check and is already house broken. You’d also have to protect your Yorkie from the cats, they could do major harm. One last thing, 9 weeks is too young to separate a toy breed from it’s mother, the mother may have weaned the dog, but she’s teaching the beginnings of potty training, (she drags the dog to the paper when it needs to relieve itself) and also inhibition of the biting reflex. Pet owners who buy dogs before the age of 12 weeks, often having more trouble with potty training and biting. I personally don’t think you should buy a Yorkies unless you have a burning desire to have a baby and nobody can talk you out of it. Yorkies are almost as much work as a baby. |