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06-23-2012, 08:41 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: New Smyrna Beach, FL
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| Can I leave my 9 week old home for 2.5-3 hours? Hi gang. So glad to be here on YorkieTalk.com - its so filled with great information, and everyone is so helpful. I have a few questions about my new little puppy; she is a 9 week old purebred Yorkie I got a week ago and just adorable (in my opinion of course). Here are two pics: Pic 1 Pic 2 Question: is she too young for me to leave on Sundays to go to church for about 2.5 hours? will she hurt herself in the cage? I work from home so other days during the week I am always around but Sundays I want to go to church and am concerned about leaving her; I missed last week because of it. She has a 36" Midwest single-door iCrate with plenty of toys and what not. Should I leave music on? Should I cover the crate with a sheet and dim the lights to simulate night time? She has a small bowl of water and a bowl of food? What do you think? Thanks in advance! |
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06-23-2012, 09:57 AM | #2 | |
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if she is a tiny girl just make sure her head is not small enough to get stuck between the bars on the crate | |
06-23-2012, 09:58 AM | #3 |
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| What a doll! That should be fine leaving her in there for 2 1/2 hours. She's on the younger side so she will probably whine/cry for a little when you're leaving her alone. Eventually she'll get used to it. I'd leave her access to water and maybe a toy with cozy blankets and whatnot. My guess is that she'll probably sleep most of the time that you are gone. I always have a blanket over the top of the crate just to give that feeling of security while also allowing Toki to look out the front of the crate and see what's going on! As long as you don't have a collar on her or anything that can get caught on the sides of the cage, she should be fine and not in danger of hurting herself. We just gate off the kitchen now that Toki is older and more trained but when she was a puppy at 12 weeks or so, I would leave her for a couple of hours in her crate while I was at class and she was just fine. I would recommend some type of water bottle over a dish though...Toki capsized her water dish a couple of times before I learned my lesson on that! |
06-23-2012, 09:59 AM | #4 | |
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Welcome to YT, she a beautiful little one! Thanks for posting pics. She is too young to be away from her mother, your breeder should not have let her go home with you until 12 weeks. Honestly, at this point I wouldn't leave her alone at all yet until shes 12 weeks with no health problems. These little ones, if taken ill, can go down hill very quickly. I don't think you have had her long enough to be able to say she is perfectly healthy to be left alone. Also do you have Karo and Nutracal on hand? Look forward to seeing more of your baby!
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06-23-2012, 10:55 AM | #5 |
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| Ok. Am getting both "yes its ok" and "no I wouldnt" responses. Is there a definitive answer? Her head wont fit through the bars, so that shouldnt be an issue. Yes, I have Nutrical, no I don't have Karo; is that Karo syrup? I want to do the right thing, but am unsure of leaving her for a few hours. Any decisive answer? or is it really a case by case thing? |
06-23-2012, 11:03 AM | #6 |
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| It really depends on the size & health of your puppy. Obviously, extremely small puppies with that don't eat well, shouldn't be left alone. But a healthy good size pup that has eaten her breakfast prior to you leaving should do just fine for a couple of hours. I mean, you sleep for that many hours at night...I hope...lol
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06-23-2012, 11:16 AM | #7 |
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| Hello and welcome, what a cutie you have, I so love puppy breath...
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06-23-2012, 12:41 PM | #8 |
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| What if the puppy should get hypoglycemic right after you close the door? A Yorkie puppy that young might have a real problem before you got home. My sister's dog went down in front of her very eyes & the vet said she only just got her into him in time. She had an older puppy but it was super tiny & just ran out of glycogen.
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06-23-2012, 12:48 PM | #9 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: New Smyrna Beach, FL
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| Sigh, now I am even more confused... |
06-23-2012, 01:06 PM | #10 |
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| I should have said "glucose" instead of "glycogen". Well, if you haven't have a very small breed dog puppy before, or even if you have, maybe you haven't heard that young very small dogs or even older tiny dogs often don't maintain their blood glucose levels very well. That's why Nutrical is recommend so that if your very young and/or small pup goes down, collapses, faints, etc., you can give it some emergency treatment in the form of Nutrical to get some glucose into its bloodstream. I'm no vet and not proficient at explaining but some here who have had dogs with it can. Dogs can go into coma & die as I understand it from nothing more than low blood sugar. Some dogs that breeders seen home very young can have problems with low blood sugar from time to time. That is one reason I wouldn't leave a Yorkie puppy that young alone.
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06-23-2012, 01:15 PM | #11 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | The reasons breeders sell them early is they don't want to be tied to the house. How much does you puppy weigh? I don't think many good breeders will leave a puppy that age alone, I've heard some say they check in every 15 minutes. An attack of hypoglycemia can come on fast and be deadly. Hopefully you know the signs to watch for. I also think you will have more trouble getting you puppy housebroken and more trouble with biting behavior, since you took her away from the mother so soon. You might want to read up on those things. I personally, wouldn’t leave a puppy alone for that long of time. She's a little doll, by the way.
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06-23-2012, 01:24 PM | #12 |
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| Exactly - they can die while you sleep which is another reason for not bringing home a very young or very tiny young dog.
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06-23-2012, 02:45 PM | #13 | |
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I didn't know why it was risky to bring very young small breed puppies home so young either until I learned differently so just because you now have a very young Yorkie puppy that a breeder sent home with you too soon is no fault of yours. Of course there are proper developmental reasons for keeping a pup with its mom/littermates, too. Breeders that sell very young puppies to people likely never mention the reasons they shouldn't be parting the dog from its mother/siblings/round-the-clock observation and unless one is very dog-knowledgeable & savvy, we have no way to know about these issues until we learn. But, since you do have a very young Yorkie, I wouldn't leave it unattended for very long to be perfectly safe. Odds are, it probably would do fine but knowing things I know now, I wouldn't take the chance in order to best keep that baby as safe as possible.
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06-23-2012, 03:23 PM | #14 |
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| My breeder wouldn't let her puppies go until 13 wks old. I'm not a breeded myself but 8 wks seems early to sell a yorkie puppy? I left mine for short trips to town so would think your's should be fine in a crate. |
06-23-2012, 05:16 PM | #15 |
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| You are rightfully confused! Different opinions and different comfort levels... There is no one right answer to this. She is very young and at high risk for hypoglycemia. So there is a small amount of risk involved. Honestly, there is also risk when you go to bed too though... I think if you do decide to go, then make sure there are no choking hazards, put her in a safe kennel, and make sure she eats before you leave.
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