New here, and new yorkie
 

Hi. My name is Michelle. I am from Missouri. I have been a pet owner my whole life, it is honestly odd how many animals we have had over the years. The latest addition to my menagerie is Preston. He is a 5 1/2 month old yorkie. We also have a 3 year old bassett named Bailey, a 8 year old min pin/italian greyhound mix named Jefe (pronounced Hefay - spanish for cheif or big boss) and a 12 year old poodle/maltese who now lives with our oldest daughter. Her name is Sadie. I also have two aquariums. That is currently all the pets we have, although over the years we have raised an bred hamsters. We have had two rabbits that lived in the house and were litter box trained, and other dogs I had as a child growing up. As you can tell, we love animals.
Anyway, my husband really did not want to get another dog, but I wanted to get a playmate for Bailey, as Jefe is getting old and grumpy and does not want to play. I wanted to get a small but sturdy dog that could hold it's own with Bailey. I did not go out with the intention of getting a Yorkie, who thinks of them as small and sturdy? Anyway, I went to a breeder rescue approx 1 hour away. I went with the intention of maybe a cocker spaniel, or even a silky. I got there, and the first group of dogs was yorkies. I picked up each one of them and held them, something about this little guy just stole my heart. He was a bit dirty as they were playing in the barn when I got there, yet there was something about him that I liked. I took him with me as I went to look at the other dogs. They had silkies, pappillions, min beagles, cocker spaniels, blue heelers, and a couple others that I don't remember. Needless to say, the first one I picked up, I took home. We have had him since the Sat after Thanksgiving. At first I was afraid he would not be able to hold his own with our Bassett. She is small, but still weighs 39 lbs. Let me tell you though, he has proven a worthy playmate for her and will sometimes surprise me with his tenacity. He is large for a yorkie (that is why he was at the rescue, the breeder could not sell him due to his size was outside the breed guidelines.) At 5 1/2 months he weighs 8.8 lbs. The vet said he would expect him to get approx. 10 lbs when full grown. I don't care if he meets the guidelines, as I got him for a pet, and it is probably a plus that he is a bit larger, to put up with Bailey. My whole family has fallen in love with him. He has the best little personality.
Anyway, I posted a pic of him in the member folders. I am glad to have found this site, and hope to learn all the best ways to take care of my sweet little (big) boy.
Michelle

Welcome Michelle. I am very glad to have you here. I am originally a "show me" state person too. I have a 4 year old named Murfee. He is my first yorkie and he "thinks" he can hold his own with anything, any size. We have to hold him back:D

Just wanted to say welcome to yt!!!

Welcome to YT :)

thank you for the warm welcome.
I will have a time trying to catch up on just the recent posts.
It is good to find an active group.
Michelle

Welcome to YT!

Welcome :)

Welcome to YT, and congratulations on your new pup.

A big warm welcome to YT to you and your zoo.:p I have a Basset (Flash) too.

Welcome to YT! I'm up in NW MO.

Hello there, welcome to YT! I love it here and you will too. I haven't met one person that wasn't as nice as can be. And what a lovely story of bringing Preston home. I love stories like that and they usually bring a little tear to my eye to know that another homeless baby was put into a forever home that will love and cherish him. Good job. Hope to hear more from you and your little farm! :D

welcome to YT ,congrats on your new furbaby.

:welcome4: ... Michelle to YT!
It sounds like you have some experience and I would bet that it won't be long before someone is asking advice from you, like perhaps me. LOL
May I ask how " RentFrog" came to be? It's very unusual and catchy too. :)

Welcome
 

Welcome to YT!! :D

welcome to yt, so glad you found him:)

New here, and new yorkie
 

Welcome, this is an addiction just like the yorkie is.:congrats: :yorkiesar :yorkiesar :happyboun :happyboun :happyboun

R Yorkies,
Even a longer story about the "Rentfrog" thing. HA HA
My oldest child is almost 20. When she was born, I was 19, young and naive.
I didin't think it neccesary to get her birth certificate until I needed it when she started kindergarten. When we got it, they had misspelled her name. Our last name is Renfro, hers was Rentfrog for the first 4 years of her life. We were told we would have to legally adopt her if we did not get the hospital to admit their mistake. Luckily they admitted it, but the name kind of stuck as a joke. Not long after this all happened, we had our second child, I got my first email address, and that was the inception of Rentfrog4. I have just always kept it.
Funny nowbut at the time it was not so funny. I was a bit miffed that someone could make that kind of mistake, given that our last name was spelled right on the same form, just my daughters was wrong. Once it was all behind us, and taken care of I would joke with my daughter that she wasn't even mine, and that if she didn't behave I would send her back to those "Rentfrog" people.

:lol tears :lol tears :lol tears :lol tears :lol tears
Gee, I was expecting an interesting answer, but this surpassed my wildest dreams. Thank you so much !!! LOL

Welcome to YT! I'm in the STL area.

Glad you liked the story R Yorkie.
I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was furious. HA HA

Hey, I love St. Louis!!!

Once again thanks for the warm welcome all!

Hi! Welcome to YT! Glad to have you all here! Be sure to sign Preston up for our Little Gentleman's Club, you can do so on this thread: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...ight=gentleman

Loved the story about Rentfrog! Sorry for the pain you had to go thru though!

Make sure you check out the info on the International Yorkietalk Meetup - it's going to be in KC - so travel shouldn't be an issue for you!