My yorkie ran away :'(
 

I don't know if I am even posting in the right place or not but this is an emergency in my opinion and I need to vent. I recently adopted a dog from YT and he ran away this morning. I have been out looking for him since 9:30 this morning. I don't even know how it happened. I let him out to go potty and five minutes later he was gone out of nowhere. I have driven all over our neighborhood and went door to door. Nobody has seen him. I have really lost all hope because he only weighs 4 pounds and he really doesn't stand a chance against anything. I don't know what else to do. I am soooooooooo upset :( Has anyone here ever had a yorkie that ran away and came back? I know bigger dogs do that sometimes, but I don't know about yorkies.

How long have you had him? I think that would the determining point...whether he knows where to return.

I would plaster the area with flyers, go door to door, contact the shelters, tell every kid in the neighbor, tell the mailman, contact local vets....and pray real hard.

Hope you find him.

Hoping your baby comes home!

I have had him for about a month and a half. My mom works at the post office and she had them looking today. We have called the animal shelter too. I am working on signs right now.

oh I am soo sorry. I will be praying for his return. Yes they can get away so doggone fast. Winston is 5 months and weighs 3.1 pounds, and yesterday i let him out in the front yard to go, and a cat 2 doors down was out and bam Winston was gone. I was doing the same running the neighborhood, but luckily I found him on the other side of their house. A leash is a must I decided yesterday. They are so tiny, but the fastest little guys. I can see how they were originally mousers and ratters. Good luck and hopefully you guys will get reunited. My first thought when I read your post was to see your location. I always worry about temperature right away too so it is good you are more south. Keep us posted please.

I pray that you will find your baby! Please keep us updated. God bless you.

I'm hoping and praying that you are quickly reunited. Poor baby. I hope that someone has taken him in and is looking for you. There have been several happy stories of found yorkies here. I know that one recent story involved a quick listing on Craigslist that was quickly seen by the person who found the dog. Good Luck!!

Here is a sticky that may have some ideas you haven't thought of yet....
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49514

Oh Hun I am Praying you Find him safe and sound.

Oh wow. We hope you are reunited very quickly and that some kind soul has taken him in.

My daughter had a very small yorkie and she squeezed through the fence to the front of the house. The UPS driver saw her and picked her up. But because there was no tag on her, the driver just kept her, and put up some signs on the lamp posts. We all searched frantically, and then saw the signs, called UPS and met up with the driver and got her back. I can tell you that my daughter and I both went straight to Petco and had tags made with our new dog's names and our telephone numbers (area code too) on them. We had to buy cat harnesses because the dogs were so small. I know the harnesses and collars mess up their hair and make matts. But the other options are just too hard to think about.

Our thoughts are with you. Keep us posted.

When I was younger my little sister thought it was soo cute to open the front door and let the dogs out. They were boxers, like you said bigger dogs, and we would chase them for ever trying to get them back, and sometimes we lost them but they did always make it back. I heard that most dogs have a sense of where there home is and can find home, so hopefully this is the case for your baby. I will keep you guys in my prayers though that he'll be back safely in your arms very soon!

Praying for you babies safe return. Please keep us updated.

sheilagh

I am so sorry! Did he have a harness with tags? A microchip? Have you contacted the local animal shelters, rescues and vets?

Praying for your little one's safe return. :(

I might be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you let him out by himself. Is that right? Could he have been stolen? If that\'s a possibility, I would also file a police report. Sometimes the police have information that the public isn\'t aware of regarding stolen animals.

Still lost... :\'(
 

There is still no sign of my baby anywhere. I let my brother\'s german shepherd\'s out of their pen last night to try and scent track him and they didn\'t come up with anything. I have pretty much covered every area possible around here. This is a terrible area to lose a dog because it is so heavily wooded. If he were lying dead in the woods or a field it would be very hard to see him. We also live on a dirt road and it is not very busy, so I don\'t really know how likely it is that someone would have stolen him. I have contacted the vets offices in the area and I just placed an ad in the local newspaper as well. I just hope that if someone does have him that they will come forward. I really just have a feeling that he is not alive :( There are coyotes, poisonous snakes, opossums, raccoons, stray dogs, and even reports of mountain lions around here, any of which could easily take him down in a second. When I went door to door yesterday one of the neighbors said they have found 5 of their cats dead in their yard recently with bite marks on them. I have been so upset over this. I wish I could take my mind off of him but I just can\'t. I even dreamed that he came home last night. :(

Forgot one thing...
 

He is microchipped but he didn\'t have his collar on because he had a collapsed trachea and I didn\'t want to cause stress on that. The vet\'s office told me they would scan all new yorkies that come in to their office.