[SoCalyorkiLvr]

Originally Posted by Stitches29

Maggie's breeder refuses to ship. She says that a fear can occur in these babies that can last a lifetime of emotional disorders. Can you imagine being a baby, taken away from your mother, stuck in a box, loaded on an airplane, handled by people you have never seen. No wonder they end up with emotional disorders.

Can you imagine being a baby, taken away from your mother, stuck in a box, loaded in a car, handled by people you have never seen?

I hope this doesn't offend you. It is not my intention. I simply want to use your logic and apply it differently to make a point. The only thing different you have mentioned about a baby who is shipped by plane as oposed to picked up and driven home in a car is the different vehicle or method of transportation. Even if you hold the puppy in the car, instead of keeping it safely in it's crate for the car ride home, it is still emotionally "traumatized" in your eyes I assume because it is being handled by people it has never seen before. This is assuming the buyers have not visited the puppy before, and, in most cases, this is the way it occurs I believe.

I don't view it that way. I think all yorkies love people and, if they are properly socialized, new people are not traumatic or something to fear. I don't think puppies who leave their mothers and their siblings and wind up in a new home know whether they got there by plane or car. JMHO

I got my first baby locally and I was by myself when I went to look at him for the first time and pick him up so he rode in the crate all the way home in my van. I did spend an hour and a half with the breeder at her home while she eplained all the written instructions and trained me on caring for a yorkie. My second puppy was shipped to me and arrived happy, and wiggly and kissing on the other end...happy to see us! I had had many conversations on the phone with the breeder and corresponded by email and spoke to her vet prior to her arrival. The breeder refused to ship until she was a solid 2 lbs and 15 weeks old.