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Originally Posted by IBluFeather Hi! I just joined today because I am supposed to be getting a Yorkie puppy in about 2 weeks. The puppy is supposed to be 8 weeks old then. I have read numerous posts here and realize that this is young but the breeder won't keep him any longer. She is definitely the type not to want to clean up poop.
I'm really scared now. I had read a Yorkie manuel she loaned to me, and saw nothing about hypoglycemia and all the other potential health problems. I believe I can deal with those, thanks to all of you here. I have a good vet also. But what concerns me is this: I have three other dogs in my house, two male toy poodles (one neutered, one soon to be) and a female half-cocker, half-doberman. Naturally, the female is larger but she is very sweet natured. She just went through a false pregnancy (so sad to see) and is scheduled to be spayed this coming month. She had a pelvic injury that makes it necessary for her not to have puppies. I am really worried about the tiny baby coming into our household now. I am prepared to keep the baby from harm's reach by using an old baby play pen modified for the puppy. It will have it's bed, toys, water, food and peepee pads all available. There is only one day a week that someone would be away from it for about 6 hours. I really want this baby, have always wanted a Yorkie but do not want to bring it into a situation that is harmful. I love my "kids" very much and would never want to bring a little one here if it wouldn't be good for it. My husband and grown daughter will be helping; we would all love it and lavish attention and care on it but I still don't want to do anything not good for this baby. Please give me some input, I will be very grateful. Thanks so much from such a newbie! |
First of all, I am also a new yorkie owner (mine was born on July 1st 2005) which makes her 8 months old now. (with me only 5 months) Wow seems so much longer! Her lazy breeder was also lax in a lot of stuff with her BUT knew enough to keep her with her mother until 13 weeks old. Considering how she did everything else wrong and on the lazy side, I guess I give her credit for keeping her for that long with the Mom. IF this breeder is in such a rush to take babies from Mom too soon, do YOU really want to deal with her. All I can think is "If I knew then what I know now!"
Secondary: your other dogs I don't see as a problem, My sister is a s**tzu breeder (has 14 dogs) and my yorkie has my oldest daughter's 2 dogs as playmates. This is how we dealt with it. My yorkie-Chloe- came to us at 13 weeks old and was only 810 grams. Quite small compared to her oversized Laso & her husky baby cousins at 32 and 40 pounds. I read in Deborah Wood's book titled "Little Dogs & Training your pint sized companion" about playtime with larger dogs & mixing smaller dogs. She warns to ALWAYS have playtime supervised. (no matter what the age) When our 3 are at my house together, we put Chloe's dog playpen (opened up straight) right through the middle of my livingroom and she has one side, the 2 bigger ones have the other side. When I can be standing right next to them while playing, we have taught Sasha "paws down" because it did warn in Deborah Wood's book, "one playful swipe of the larger paw can break a smaller dogs back" I take this warning seriously, although my oldest daughter does not. This means I never let her dog sit, although my services are available to her always. This also means the minute Sasha tries to place her paws on Chloe, the playpen make shift gate goes back up. When your baby comes home, a playpen isn't 100% necessary right off the start, as she will be just as content in a crate when your eyes are not on her or them. The dogs DO learn how to play through the bars and are very happy when they know nothing else. A smaller crate will enable them to sniff and be closer then if the baby was in a large playpen. I have just recently allowed Chloe to play with her "cousins" a little more freely but only because she has just passed the 5 pound mark. I would not allow the size difference to stop you from getting the yorkie, the breeders quality of care and thoughtfulness maybe, but no matter when you get a little yorkie baby, you will still have to keep them well supervised and not on each other until Miss or Mr Baby Yorkie got bigger & stornger anyway, so that wouldn't matter if you got a baby now or later on. Please think twice about the separation from Mom too early though. I think it made mine a much more happy pup being with her Mom longer. She is loving, never cried from day one. (I expected her to cry for the first week) Mom was pushing her pups away by 13 weeks, so I think the separation anxiety is not as strong. I'm not sure how many others will disagree with me but I am sharing with you what I went through in recent months. Hope some of it helps
