Help me choose my puppy!

[impish]

I think you are in a win win situation. they are both adorable in different ways. I'm personnally wishing for another - and the next one will be a girl... I can't stand not buying the pretty dresses out there

[Stacey8221]

Yes definitely a win win situation! We are beyond excited! It's all I can think about. I have gone back and forth on our decision about 100 times but right now I am thinking we should just choose ONE for now.
I am hoping to go see them sometime next weekend and will definitely update when we get back

[skellington]

If you can't get both, I'd say the male! In my opinion, he's the cuter of the two and he looks a lot like my boys, so I'm drawn to him lol! Also, it sounds like he likes you.

[KazzyK810]

If you can swing getting both....I'd get both if I were you.

With my first yorkie Chelsea, I was the first to see the puppies, 3 girls. Chelsea and one of her sisters looked like twins and I soooo wanted both, but at that time but at that point I just couldn't swing it financially. I always regretted not getting her sister.

With ZoE, I could easily afford two and would have taken two in a heartbeat, but after I took a week or so to think about whether I wanted the responsibility/commitment of another dog (after going 3 years without one since Chelsea passed) there weren't any other puppies available.

[Harrysmum]

Originally Posted by Stacey8221

Yes definitely a win win situation! We are beyond excited! It's all I can think about. I have gone back and forth on our decision about 100 times but right now I am thinking we should just choose ONE for now.
I am hoping to go see them sometime next weekend and will definitely update when we get back

Apart from my reply on the first page of your thread....

I'm so happy you're going back - the decision might already have been made for you as they're so gorgeous, but I'm a very firm believer in 'it'll happen if it's meant to'....

In Harry's mother's litter, there was a little girl (who had already been sold) and 2 brothers. We chose Harry because he came to us, couldn't leave us alone...and then curled up and went to sleep in Andy's arms...

I still regret, though, that we didn't have both brothers....for Harry's sake, and so that we could have a little snuggle bug each to cuddle at the same time...!!! Sally + Harry x

[Teegy]

I let my breeder choose for me, she knows me and Teegy. I figure she knows her dogs best and you know what, Tufty is the cutest little muffin.
He's still only six weeks so he doesn't get to come home for another 5 weeks

[Teegy]

love Chachi's answer

[chestermama]

both are adorable, the male personality sound like a fit for you, chester came running to me and kissing me and he was the one, he has not been a marker inside just outside

[Stacey8221]

Thank you so much for all the advice everyone! I have a feeling I will regret not getting both if we decide to pick just one of them but I just don't know! Right now I am just going to see how it goes when we go to visit them again at the end of the week. Who knows, the boy might not want anything to do with me this time around, I guess that's why I want to see them one more time.
My daughter has been saying how much she wants a girl puppy and we did find a TON of cute girl stuff online, even a pink exercise pen! BUT I just keep picturing that little boy's face looking up at me with his sweet little puppy dog eyes lol! I'm not sure I will be able to leave him behind!!
SO, I will keep everyone updated when we get back and I'm sure I'll have more pictures and will probably STILL be undecided!!

[KendraE]

Originally Posted by Stacey8221

Thank you so much for all the advice everyone! I have a feeling I will regret not getting both if we decide to pick just one of them but I just don't know! Right now I am just going to see how it goes when we go to visit them again at the end of the week. Who knows, the boy might not want anything to do with me this time around, I guess that's why I want to see them one more time.
My daughter has been saying how much she wants a girl puppy and we did find a TON of cute girl stuff online, even a pink exercise pen! BUT I just keep picturing that little boy's face looking up at me with his sweet little puppy dog eyes lol! I'm not sure I will be able to leave him behind!!
SO, I will keep everyone updated when we get back and I'm sure I'll have more pictures and will probably STILL be undecided!!

I can assure you that there is a TON of cute boy stuff out there as well!! But... It has been fun dressing up our new little girl! But, my Bevo will
Always be my #1 buddy!!!

[MY OSCAR]

Originally Posted by stacey8221

i am having the hardest time picking our new yorkie puppy. We have found a breeder and have gone to see the puppies 2 times now. The litter has 4 boys and one girl and both times the girl and one boy have stood out to us. Not only that but both of them also liked us and ran to us every chance they got while the other 3 puppies acted afraid of us and stayed away.
Now we are stuck on which one to get. We were hoping only one of them would like us which would make our decision much easier
the only thing holding me back from getting the girl is her watery eyes. I noticed the first time we saw her at 6 weeks that they were very watery while the other puppies seemed dry. Then again at 8 weeks she had watery tear stained eyes and the other boy we liked had perfectly dry eyes.
Here are the 2 puppies just before 7 weeks old. The girl is on the right.
puppies | flickr - photo sharing!
here they are at 8 weeks old with the girl on the left
pic1 | flickr - photo sharing!
here is an up close of the girl and her eyes:
girl2 | flickr - photo sharing!
and one of the boy just for comparison:
boy | flickr - photo sharing!

so here are the pros and cons of each puppy.
Female pros - we think she is the cuter yorkie and will probably be the better looking one as an adult as well. She is fluffier and her fur seems like it will be softer/fluffier instead of straight or wirey. She weighs 1 lb. 7.3 oz at 8 weeks old which i believe charts out at 4 1/2 lbs. She was a very fun puppy and loved to run around and play, but this also meaned she liked to bite.
Female cons - watery eyes. I'm really worried this will be a permanent problem that might lead to other more serious problems. She is a little too rambunctious for my daughter who does not like to be bitten lol.

Male pros - he was a total sweetheart! The puppies were all in a little play yard and whenever i would walk to one side of the play yard he ran as fast as he could to come over to me and when i put my hands inside the pen he would instantly lick them and try his hardest to climb up into them. I seriously walked to either side about 15 times and it never failed, he always came to me while the other puppies ignored me. He had quite a bit of white on his chest and 2 back feet which we loved. They are parti gene carriers. He barely ever tried to bite me at all and if he did it was very gentle.
Male cons - you could already tell that his hair was going to be more wirey instead of fluffy. Having a boy dog makes me a little nervous because of marking so i've always owned girls.

Anyways as you can see i will never make my decision and need help! Is the watery eyes a deal breaker, should i go with the one that has perfectly dry eyes or is this something that will most likely go away and should not influence our decision? Which would you choose??

have you decided on a puppy yet ?
Just curious......

[gracielove]

I have always regretted not getting Gracie's sister when I got Gracie. All the training would have been over with at once. Gracie is kind of an alpha dog and now I don't think she would accept a new dog very well. If I do try to get another one I'll have to go through trying to get her to accept the new one. It's not so easy to try to figure how a puppy will click with an older dog's personality. I think getting a litter mate would have been much easier for both of us.

Hope it's an easy decision for you this weekend.

[lillymae]

Can't wate to see who's you choose.

[Stacey8221]

Well we just went to see them again yesterday and out of the 5 puppies in the litter these same two just LOVED us. I was almost hoping that one of them would sort of ignore us this time to make the decision easier but I think they liked us even more this time around. They BOTH did the same thing, if we walked to one end of their little play yard they would both run as fast as they could to come lick and crawl into our hands!! We did it over and over and they ALWAYS came running to us, the other 3 puppies came up to us when we first got there and then pretty much stayed back again.
We are definitely getting the girl because my daughter liked her the most but I just don't know how I could leave the little boy behind. Here is a little video clip of them running to my hands

puppies!.MOV - YouTube

[lillymae]

Aw, see this is why I said the WHO'S & not the WHO, lol How will you ever choose ? then leave the other behind.