My Picky Pooch

[RonDawg]

Hello everybody, Dante' and I are new combers to this site. I just wanted to share that my wife and I was givin a yorkie from a puppy mill. He lived in a crate for months in a room 12' x 8'x 7', with little or no human contact, amongst 35 other little family members. We have been working with him, seeing he is very scitzoed and un-socialized. Dante' was very skinny and very very picky. I figured out that Dante' was hooked on salt, seeing the puppy mill fed thier little bundles of joy balonge and spam, very high in sodium. I cooked off a 22 pound turkey, removed all the meat from the bones, put in a food processor, added 3 cups barley, 3 cups oats, 1 cup cream of wheat, I had healthy dog food for 2 months. Dante' has gained alot of healthy weight and is on his way to a healthy recovery and has been weened off the Sodium addiction. Dante's coat is very shinney and glistens, he would make a wonderful christmas tree top this year and I'm sure thats not on his mind, LOL!.

[Yorkiedaze]

How wonderful of you to take him in and give him "real" food instead of the dreaded dog food. How were you able to get him, and did all the others find homes? Hope you can post photos soon. I would love to meet him.

[RonDawg]

Apparently the PuppyMill Madame was told to get rid of her Pooches, she has givin away many of the yorkies & chiauaus, but her saga seems not too end. She breeds the Pooches then gets attached and doesnt seem to sell them. I mean how do you give so much love to 40 dogs, is thier that much time in one day to give individual love for all. Its really sad that thier are people out thier that cant live thier life without making other animals subject to thier misery.

[Lisa and Pic]

Hello and Welcome to YorkieTalk! Bless you for taking little Dante.

[DaisyMom]

Originally Posted by RonDawg

She breeds the Pooches then gets attached and doesnt seem to sell them.

Sounds like she is a hoarder. I have seen many programs on the Animal Planet Series' "Animal Cops of......." on this subject.

These folks really do believe that they are the only one's that can do right by their pets, but they always seem to get in over their heads.

[RonDawg]

Well, the Madame from the puppy mill, is probably just lonely at the cost of some warm little fun loving pooches. Most of the pooches we hope have gone to loving homes.

Well I'm currently making another batch of heathy meaty Yorkie food that will last at least a month and a half. I'm just waiting for the rice and other grains to absorb the meat broth then I will combine it with the ground of meat. I gave Dante' a little taste before the final product and he gobbled it up. If I'm not cooking gourmet' food for my wife I'm making gourmet' food for Dante'


Well got to go, CHOW!

[AngieC]

I want to fist say Welcome to Yorkie talk... Second I want to thank and congratulate you for rescuing Dante from a puppy mill. My heart just breaks when I think of the depulrable places these poor babies live, even the adult babies. I was watching a case on Animal planet where they rescued over 100 Shih-tzu's (the other breed of dog I own) and the next case they went to they resecued 29 yorkies... Needless to say I was balling by the end of this show... WHY do people do what they do... If you don't like animals WHY have them? I wish I knew why, as I am sure the rest of us wishe the same thing!! But anyhoo, I am really greatful that there are some loving people still out there!! THANK YOU ALL for rescuses!! I adopted my babies through breeders that I know, Good friends of mine.. I WOULD NEVER adoped from a pet store!!

[RonDawg]

Our first dog was wondering around in so we posted an add in the local paper and told the pounds that we had a 3 yr old golden cocker spaniel, that we later named Bailey, she lived with us to be about 14 till she passed on. Our second pooch was half chow and golden retriever, we adopted him from a pound and he lived to be 11 and passed away this last july from a condition called bloat. That was terrible and we were all at loss of our Brewster boy. So we went to the pound and adopted a chow mix puppy, which the boy came down with distemper days later. So we looked on petadopt.com and found a 2 yr old male, Chow/German shepard mix, he's so tempermental and playful, "What a teenager he is". We had a border collie that passed on from a stroke, so we adopted another border collie from a breeder, only thing is we think the breeder abused Buddy, because he is very timmid and will only respond to me and come to me, rather than my wife. Then we adopted a chywawa her name is cloe. And we Adopted a Papillon name Cole and last but not least we was givin Dante'. So our life is living and loving our adopted family members with all thier little problems that we get to try and mend, one day at a time. Seeing we were unable to have children, we have dogs and cats. Thier are some advantages to Pooches and Cats: they will never get: dui,drunk,drugs,crash the car,arrested,graduate from H.S., married, divorsed. The only thing they are here for is our best friends. When I'm lonely I just pick up one or more of my furry little pooches, and give them a big hug, and tell them how much I love them, and they respond with wagging, licking and lots of kisses.

[ritzydaisy]

Sounds like Dante has it "made in the shade"!! Thank you for making his life better. There are so many sad stories on here, but this one has a good ending. You will be blessed.

Welcome to YT. Looking forward to pictures and more about your new pup!

[livingdustmops]

Originally Posted by DaisyMom

Sounds like she is a hoarder. I have seen many programs on the Animal Planet Series' "Animal Cops of......." on this subject.

These folks really do believe that they are the only one's that can do right by their pets, but they always seem to get in over their heads.

I agree..puppymills do not feed spam/balonga..to expensive...they buy the cheapest of dog food that they can come by.

This is a hoarder and needs mental health help and all the dogs need to be taken away but very difficult to do.

[harleyyorkie]

Originally Posted by RonDawg

Our first dog was wondering around in so we posted an add in the local paper and told the pounds that we had a 3 yr old golden cocker spaniel, that we later named Bailey, she lived with us to be about 14 till she passed on. Our second pooch was half chow and golden retriever, we adopted him from a pound and he lived to be 11 and passed away this last july from a condition called bloat. That was terrible and we were all at loss of our Brewster boy. So we went to the pound and adopted a chow mix puppy, which the boy came down with distemper days later. So we looked on petadopt.com and found a 2 yr old male, Chow/German shepard mix, he's so tempermental and playful, "What a teenager he is". We had a border collie that passed on from a stroke, so we adopted another border collie from a breeder, only thing is we think the breeder abused Buddy, because he is very timmid and will only respond to me and come to me, rather than my wife. Then we adopted a chywawa her name is cloe. And we Adopted a Papillon name Cole and last but not least we was givin Dante'. So our life is living and loving our adopted family members with all thier little problems that we get to try and mend, one day at a time. Seeing we were unable to have children, we have dogs and cats. Thier are some advantages to Pooches and Cats: they will never get: dui,drunk,drugs,crash the car,arrested,graduate from H.S., married, divorsed. The only thing they are here for is our best friends. When I'm lonely I just pick up one or more of my furry little pooches, and give them a big hug, and tell them how much I love them, and they respond with wagging, licking and lots of kisses.

I hear you about the pets. I have three grown skin kids and they are always asking me "aren't the five yorkies alot of trouble"? My reply.... Never as much trouble as you kids were! LOL I have never caught a single one of them sneaking out their bedroom window, wrecking the family car, or skipping school.