Puppies are like having babies. Honestly, I had two babies and having a puppy is the closest thing to having my babies. They have tiny bladders, and honestly when we got ours home she had to pee about every 30 minutes. She also howled and cried when we left her alone. She picks up everything on the floor and eats it no matter what. So you have to completely baby proof your place. One night she went poo but didn't get everything out and then she wiped it all over the carpet. I panicked and tried to help her get it out, but was scared to death that she might have eaten something too big to poo out, so called the ER hospital. By the time we had her ready to leave tho, she finally got it out. She has poo sticking to the hairs around her butt quite often, so we're up sometimes late washing and blow drying her rear end, since she likes to go around 10:00 at night. She also managed to find a pill under my bed I had dropped who-knows-when and licked the outside off, so we spent another evening anxiously watching her after talking to the animal poison line.
This is just a small example of the things that constantly are happening since we got our puppy. You have to watch them all the time. She chews on everything, even chewed on the plastic seam around the outside of the carrier she sleeps in, so we had to get some of that yucky tasting stuff to put on chairs, table legs, edges of rugs, pretty much everything that is down low to the floor.
Think about this before you get a puppy. My husband is retired and stays home with the puppy, but he says he's got a full-time job with her. She has to eat often enough not to get hypoglycemic and small dogs are prone to that, especially Yorkies. They use a lot of energy which is derived from the food they eat, but their livers don't store enough, and they are so small they don't eat much.
Oh, yeah, that's another thing. Our puppy is extremely picky when it comes to food (very common) and we've had to switch foods again and again to get her to eat anything at all. If they don't eat for 8 hours, they are at high risk for getting hypoglycemic.
Oh, and one more thing. Our puppy has had a reaction every time she gets her shots. So we've had to have her pre-treated for her shots, another $50 tacked onto the cost of the shots which come to about $30-$40 each time. If they get an allergic reaction, since they are small, they can get dehydrated, which again means a trip to the vet. All very costly. |