6 week old Yorkie
 

I don't see it possible to leave a 6 week old yorkie puppy at home for 9 hours. Puppies that young need constant supervision, he could get low blood sugar and have a seizure. I don't mean to scare you but I don't see it safe in any way for the pup to be alone that many hours. You will need someone to supervise this puppy while you are away.

I agree! A pup that young shouldn't even be away from his mother yet. He needs to be supervised

Definitely shouldn't be away from mom, but she says the mother passed. If I couldn't have someone to be with pup while I am away for that many hours I think it would be the best to pass on this baby and find an older one. 9 hours is so long to be alone and so many things can happen.

Please, Please, Please do not bring this little 6 week old puppy home now. It is WAY TOO YOUNG to go to a new home. Puppies this age need constant supervision if they don't have a momma, they need to be kept warm and safe and need fed every couple of hours. I have raised a litter of 5 puppies from 5 weeks on when their mom had eclampsia and it is very hard to do, I can't imagine trying to do this when you have to work and have never even had a puppy before.
This is NOT a safe situation for this little one. Please for the sake of the puppy - leave her at the breeders. Raising this puppy until it is older is the breeders responsiblity not yours!!! I can't believe the breeder would even consider letting a puppy go this young.:mad:
This puppy should be at least 12 weeks old before it comes to your home, for the sake of all involved please wait until then to get your baby, it will be better for all involved, especially for the puppy. Good luck,

Teresa

I am sorry you did not seem to like the answers we gave you in the other thread, but you must understand that a 6 week old puppy orphan or not NEEDS A LOT of work and supervision, he MUST eat at least 4 or 5 meals a day, with one being right before bed. you MUST grind puppy kibble in the food processor and mix it with goat's milk and give it to him and MAKE sure he eat it. you also need an xpen to keep him secure, your crate can go inside with his bed on one side and on the other side a pee pad for him to learn to use it. is going to be a LONG road, I posted this for you in the other thread.maybe some friends or family members can stroll in every 3 to 4 hours to check on him.

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/tra...ml#post3012916

Best of luck,
Carmen in nj

No matter how many threads you start, you are going to get the same answers.

Carmen and others have given you GREAT advice.

This dog is way too young and needs CONSTANT supervision.

We are all giving you the best advice we can... this puppy should not be in a home where you are gone 9 hours per day... not yet.

This dog is going to need round the clock care for awhile and then A LOT of socialization work as it gets older.

If you do take this dog, you need to get the food/milk that Carmen told you about and you need to find someone who can stop by every few hours to check on this dog.

This pup needs to stay with the breeder and big shame on the breeder for dumping it on your shoulders at so young an age. That time from six weeks to aobut 12 weeks is crucial and it needs to be in experienced hands or it could die. If your biggest concern is this pup pottying where it shouldn't consider backing out of this deal and don't get this pup.
I will be praying for that pup, it will need it.

Please take the advice received from all your threads! This puppy is too young to not have constant supervision! I understand momma is not in the picture, are there litter mates? If so, your puppy needs to stay with them! Please have the breeder keep your puppy, you do not have the time right know this little baby need devoted to!

Please listen to everyones advice. I have brought a pup home at 6 weeks and I had to hand feed him soft food every 2 to 3 hours. You cant just put food out and hope this pup eats it needs to be supervised,

I'm with everyone else here. It's just not safe to bring him home so young, even if you were home 24/7. If you are gone for 9 hours a day, I don't think this is even an option. I understand that you may already have fallen in love with the puppy, but if you care about him at all, please leave him with the breeder. She should be able to care for him like he needs to be, although if she's trying to get you to take him this young maybe she doesn't know what she is doing......

This breeder is breaking the law and if anything happens to this puppy you won't be able to do anything about it...this is not a reputable breeder so I would be very nervous of the health of this puppy.

Have you been to her house? How did you find her? How do you know mom died? How old was mom? How many litters did she have? How many other dogs does this breeder have?

Age to Sell Puppy Table

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Florida has some of the toughest puppy lemon laws in the country, too.

Florida Pet Lemon Law

It seems like you have made up your mind to get this puppy now. I can tell you that I got Diva at 8 weeks old because I really didn't know any better 4 years ago. Diva had to be "hand fed" every single bite of food that she ate when we brought her home at that age. That is literally, "hand fed". She would not eat from a bowl. I had to fed her every little bite of food off of my fingers for the first 4 weeks of her life with us. She did not know how to drink water out of a bowl and I had to sit on the floor and put my fingers in the water and coax her to drink. Bringing her home at 8 weeks consumed my life that summer. It was like having a newborn all over again. If I had not been with her 24/7 those first weeks she would have died. I even bought a baby sling and carried her with me every place that I went. I was blessed to be able to have one of my teenagers watch her for the few minutes that I was able to run to a grocery store.

I hope that you will be able to find someone to watch you puppy for you while you work, otherwise you may very well get your heart broken. Yorkies are not like other dogs. They are extremely fragile little creatures and many have died from not recieving the "constant" care that they require as infants.

I will be praying for you and your puppy.

As everyone has mentioned so far that it is never a great idea to bring such a very young yorkie puppy home at 6weeks of age. The fear of a yorkis baby brought home at 6weeks is hypoglecemia , low blood sugar . This could kill a tiny yorkie easily. You may come home agter heours of work and find that your baby has died of complications of low blood sugar.
Especially when their is nobody home to supervise your baby , and her eating . She will be very confused , and lost in in her new enviriment , and cry that nobody is there to take care of her.
Little yorkie puppies are just to vulnerable , and needy of their caregivers . They also need to be with their momma and littermates to learn propper social skill training that she will not have when broght home too early. This could cause future problems as she grows older .
A responsible breeder would never sell or rehome such a young yorkie puppy .
I hate to see you have a broken heart if your baby dies while you are away working, which is highly possible. Yorkie babies are very much like a human baby needing constant care and attention . Even when their is a experienced owner of such a new , and very young puppy things turn south very quickly having a pup left without any propper care from it'e human.
Please , wait until your new yorkie baby is old enough to handle eating on it's own . The tiny the puppy is the higher incidence of a hypoglecimic attack is great.
Remember that any puppy requires great care from its new owner. Especially a tiny baby that is too young to leave it's mother. this is a bad idea and your heart is going to be full of remorse if your baby can't survive without the care she deserves .
Think very carefully as to what other members are telling you , because it is the truth. Please wait until your yorkie baby is old enough . AND when she is, she still will need someone with her the majority of the time . These babies are too little and fragile to be left alone for very long periods of time without human intervention.

You may want to ask your vet about medical boarding the puppy for the day for about 2 weeks So that way someone is always watching the puppy. there are so may things that can happen with a puppy that young. I hope you do have a vet, just ask them for advise on food and water.
If you do keep it in the bathroom buy a baby gate, do not close the door on a new puppy and keep the radio or TV on, so it does not feel alone.
good luck.
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I also wanted to let you know that potty problems will be the least of your worries, bringing home a yorkie puppy at this age. Other , more serioius issues are at stake . Do what you can to make sure your puppy can stay longer with her momma and littermates. The reccomended time for a little yorkie baby is 12 weeks old. And that is for the health and benifit of the puppies.
Even at 12 weeks old, you will still have a little baby puppy that is going to be very needy and cry for attention all the time for you.

Here's the other thread that she started - and the advice she was given.

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/tra...-training.html

potty training
 

after your boo is old enough to start training here's how I did it....
1. realize that when you have a little Yorkie-- mine is almost 5lbs and pretty much full grown-- you have to understand that their bladders are tiny tiny tiny, accidents will happen.
2. only use one pee pad, having more is confusing
3. the first time he/she pees on the carpet, soak it up and squeeze it out on the pad (gross i know but I didn't have the heart for crate training)
4. be consistent put the pee on the pad until he/she learns to put it there themselves.
5 don't get upset, they don't speak english, mistakes are ok.
I do agree with everyone and hope you took the time before bringing the pup home.
teaching the dog @ 6 weeks will be really hard, so be sweet bc you don't want the puppy to associate your frustration with who you are.

If you are not prepared to be a full time mommy 24/7 or very close to it, then please do not take this baby home. It is so unfair and unsafe for him, and could easily end in his death.

I sure hope you will slow down a bit and wait until you are better prepared to care for a pup. Help this little guy find the proper care at this critical time of his life; someone who can spend their whole day attending to his needs, feeding, pottying, socializing, etc. .... he deserves this.

You have received a bunch of great advice here. I hope that you use it to make your decision. It would be sad to have this puppy not make it. It is a full time 27/7 job to keep this puppy alive. I don't have advice on how you can do that when you are gone 9 hours a day.

Im sorry, but I agree with the others on this. I aquired Tucker when he was 7 weeks old, (breeder pretty much dropped him off at my house after his vet check) and he was a "bigger" pup at 2.5 pounds. There was no way I could of left him at that age for 9 hours at a time, honestly I feel very strongly about leaving any kind of pup under 6 months old alone for that long. He needed constant super vision and feedings. HE would throw up if I was only a few minutes late getting him his food, I was petrified of him having a hypogylecmic episode. It only takes a small pup a little while to die from this and if you are at work and your pup is having an attack you would come home to a dead dog, sorry to be blunt but its true. If you are adamant about getting this puppy then you NEED to make arrangements to check on it through out the day or have someone else do it. Pee pad training for now should the least of your worries.
I also wouldnt expect a puppy that young to "catch on" to using a pee pad for a few weeks. Keep the pup in a xpen with its pads while your at work and take the pup to the pads every so often when your home. He/she will catch on but it will be a few weeks if not months before it is comp. trained. My dog was 7 months before he was completely outside trained, Im home all day and took him out every hour during the day. Yorkies are known to be hard to house train.
Good luck and please reconsider taking this pup so young..

look into petsmart (i like petsmart a lot) you can get training there, vet care, grooming all in one-- the vet will also happily keep your dog all day in a nice clean safe warm place plus you get a vet as a babysitter with their drop off and pet daycare just a thought

I student teach now so I drop off Castor Pollux at daycare at 7:30 and pick him back up at 4.

The couple days that I woke up late and didn't have time to drop him off, he whined like crazy and was destructive during the day and he is almost 9 months now... I wouldn't leave a baby baby that young home alone simply becasue he is a yorkie.
He WILL get into everything, forget to eat, forget to drink water because they are soooo busy. my yorkie at 3 months had a desire to climb everything and get scared to jump off. If i wasn't there to monitor his silly climbing and get him down everytime, he may have broken something... something serious like his neck.

No way should a 6 week old puppy be in pet daycare and exposed to all those deadly viruses! This puppy won't even be able to start his vaccinations for another couple weeks and those early vaccinations are only about 25% effective.

I doubt Petsmart would accept a puppy that young anyway since it is illegal to sell one at six weeks in Florida.

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: My thoughts exactly. Puppies should not have any exposure to all that until all vaccinations are complete, which is around 16 weeks isn't it?

The last round of vaccinations should be around 18 weeks then wait an additional two weeks for full immunity:

In one study of a cross section of different puppies the age at which they were able to respond to a vaccine and develop protection covered a wide period of time. At six weeks of age, 25% of the puppies could be immunized. At 9 weeks of age, 40% of the puppies were able to respond to the vaccine. The number increased to 60% by 16 weeks, and by 18 weeks of age, 95% of the puppies could be immunized.

Parvovirus: Serious Diarrhea in Puppies & Dogs

am i missing somthing
 

AS alot of you know i got kisses about 9 days ago ,i love him to death and would'nt trade him for nothing.He to was very young and tiny only 1 lb ,Now all that being said ,this has been very hard for kisses and me .HE has to be feed 4 times a day took to potty every 2 hrs. ,don't get me wrong it's getting better ,BUT would i ever get another puppy that young..NO..My thing is who is gonna feed and care for it those nine hours,because they can't eat good they can't do ANY thing good at that age ,PLEASE DON'T GET IT .it can't stay by it's self at that age

Please don't take this baby home that young:( Bringing home a 12 week old takes plenty of work and attention as it is. Would you bring a very premature human baby home, no , you wouldn't be able to meet its needs...its the same thing here. Please put the puppy best interest at heart first. Shame on that breeder too:mad:

This is a sad situation.....for both parties! I got Lucky when he was almost 12 wks old and I have researched and read everything a year before, to prepare myself for my Yorkie. Needless to say actually having him and knowing that I was responsible for this little life scared me to death! Raising three children was easy compared to Lucky....lol and thankfully my furbaby was and still a healthy little boy! I have had dogs before Lucky but Yorkies... they are truly a different adventure!
But let me say this.....all the rearch and reading didn't come close to the advice I have read here from the very experienced owners!
To make this short....when these yorkie lovers advise you on something you can betcha they know what they are talking about!!!!
I wish you and your little one a super sucessful outcome.

Please take everyones advice. I got Missy when she was 7 weeks and 3 days old (weighed 1 lb). If I would have left her at home for 9 hrs alone, she would be dead. She was constantly having hypoglycemic attacks and needed nutrical regularly (up until she was 10 weeks old). I had to be with her to make sure that she was eating often enough and at first I had to hand feed her. I have owned dogs my entire life, so I do have experience. It was very scarey and stressful that first 2 weeks of her being home. If you can not be with this puppy EVERY moment of the day and night, you shouldn't even consider bringing it home.