Yeah..what she said! LOL Mary you say things so much more elegantly than I.

As for the "cute little stuffed animals"..I absolutely put my dogs up when MOST of my friends children come to visit (thankfully for SHORT periods of time) as they have no clue how to be careful around the furkids... My little new addition will be raised amongst the yorks, so he will have to develop an understanding of what is and is not okay.

lol Becki you have thicker skin then me!
I do not get offended when I get told the danger of small children and yorkies, actually when people stop us when we take for our walk and ask about the yorkies the first thing out of my mouth is they are not the best dog for a house with small kids (they must think I am simple cause I am pushing a double stroller)

I grew up also with small dogs, my mom had toy poodles (pets) form the time I was 2 years and up.

I know what you mena about other people kids...my Peter is only 2 years but he knows how to pet the dogs and never picks them up but my friends children? I tell the yorkies to stay upstairs till they leave and they do so happily.

I don't adopt my yorkies out to families with little children under a certain age. But, I usually request that the whole family come when they are coming to adopt puppies. I watch the parent and child interaction as they are checking out the puppies. Watch and listen on how well the children are behaved. If parents are afraid to practice discipline.

The only problem I have with my own small children adn yorkies? Pete rhas no fear of dogs, even ones that are barking and snarling (my grandmother's nasty pom) and the yorkies do not realize that other children are too rough.

Uh oh, well behaved and disciplined? Well I'm out of the running! LOL!! Remind me NEVER to bring my kids when I come to TX to visit you MJ~!! LOL! ROFL

Good for you!!
We have basic rules here, no running in the house (I do not want to risk Peter falling on one), absolutely no roughouseing, no teasing, no feeding the yorks from the dinner table (Peter's worst offense), the yokires do not touch peter's toys and Peter does not play with theirs unless playing fetch. If he wants a cuddle with a dog, one of us parents are in the room next to them supervising.

If anything should ever happen it is MY fault, not the dogs not my sons, MINE.
So we take every precaution to keep everyone safe and happy.

A thick skin is something you develop very quickly in the show world. If everything nasty anyone has ever said to me had hurt me, I would be a blubbering ball of emotions all of the time. One just has to realize a lot of nastiness comes from people with empty lives, sitting on self-made pedastals, and those who are threatened or jealous. As long as YOU can say I know what I am doing is right, in all aspects of your dogs..then who cares what anyone else thinks?

Now as for other behaviour...well let's just say Terrible Twos...need I say more?

IT is important he learns not all doggies are nice. I encountered the same problem when my kids were little..my grandmother was outside playing with my son one day at her house while I was inside making sandwiches, he was about 2 at the time.. he toddled off, she couldn't find him, and when she alerted me and I came running to find him, he was attmpting to hug a chained pit bull in the neighbors yard. Needless to say he ended up with stitches. :(

Oh so very true!!

I get irratated with narrow mindedness. I get irratated when someone looks at me and says I should rehome my yorkies before my son kills one (I had a not so nice neighbor make that comment...I saw red that day...lol).

My hide still needs to grow thicker!

Good gracious!!!!
That is my worry, he has no problem with dogs and would go up to one and all, he has yet to ever be bit, nipped or even snapped at.
We are trying to teach him to wave to other dogs not touch!!

I want to have a yorkie that I can be satisfied with, the right temperment, the right body stucture, the right movement and coat...etc...maybe I am once agian asking for too much or the impossible, but it really gets down to ethics of breeding, for the better of the breed!![/QUOTE]

As far as I understand , you want the perfect Yorkie, sorry , but the perfect Yorkie is not born yet .

Even though I made a joke, I feel the same way you do.. I saw a thread the other day of a mother wanting to get a yorkie for a 3 year olds pet. I cringed. I know FEW three year olds who A. Want a pet B. Can be responsible and C. Can not INJURE a small dog. I wouldn't place a yorkie with the MAJORITY of people with young children, they'd have to be some super parents, with great kids, and even then it would be a BIG YORKIE. On the plus side at least mine are USED to kids..so I can evaluate them as pets for homes with kids.

Better get working on it if you want the Charmer/Go-Go show dog.

I don't think she's describing the "perfect" yorkie.. I think she's just saying she wants QUALITY and is learning what that is. I don't think wanting a quality dog is so out of line.

As far as I understand , you want the perfect Yorkie, sorry , but the perfect Yorkie is not born yet .[/QUOTE]

LOL YES Ma'am! But seriously don't make me bring the kids to TX..that would be worse than walking barefoot over burning embers...come on that's a 13 hour drive, would you wish that on any parent?? LOL I'll bring the baby! :)

13 hours with kids....arghhh!! I can feel hair falling out over the thought! lol

No I know there is no "perfect yorkie" but I want one I am satisfied with, I do not want to snatch the first "show" quality and then find out they are not good enough for the ring. I do not want one that looks great but personality wise will not suit our home or the ring.
There are some great dogs out there and I am determined to find one.

I agree with the whole wanting to get there 3 year old a pet..right...most 6 year olds are not even ready for a pet. But then there are exceptions to the rule. Now what about people who want a yorkie to dress up and spoil?? Now there is a way to ruin a good dog! (not the dressing up but spoiling). There are quite a few yorkie owner around here, when I bump into them they tell me how "sensitive" Precious is, and yes, they are a "bit" nippy (as in do not touch if you like your index finger to remain intact).

Ok.....I am here too
 

Ok, I have to jump into this....mainly because I am .....ummmmm UNUSUAL. I am a little "older" Mom, having raised one son, who is 22. But, God brought me a pretty cool guy, after 13 years of fun, exciting and wild "single life". So, guess what.....he did not have kids, sooooooooooooooooo you guessed it we now have two boys........and believe it or not. who are 10 and 6......they have conformed to my crazy life.....moving 7 times in 11 years, job changes, etc.

Well, what do I have now??? those two little boys, love, love dogs. We have rescue/fostered several. In fact you may recall, the two Italian Greyhounds, just recently, who by the way are WAY MORE fragile than most Yorkies.... Well, they did the feeding, cleaned up after them and helped teach them tricks.....and more importantly learned how to love and lose.....(due to adoption). They had to be extremely gentle with these two IG's based on the fact that their bones are very thin and break easy.....but , my guys were perfect gentleman....

So, I guess the point of my post is........don't assume because someone has small kids that they are not "candidates" for Yorkie ownership......

As Becki alluded too, and others......it is what the kids are exposed to....and how you teach your kids about animals in general....

I do agree, Becki does have a much thicker skin than me too.......I told her once, that she was a "mature" person in a young body.....LOL

But, I will be showing soon hopefully..................and maybe even one of my two boys may be in the ring eventually too.....as a Jr. Handler......we shall see.....

Good for you. You're raising children that are displined and know how to interact with smaller "toy" dogs.

But, there are many parents that attempt to buy toy breeds because they are cute and do not understand that these little yorkies are delicate and little children need to be taught the responsibilities have handling and playing with wee yorkies.

I get irratated when people see me with the yorkies and my kids and say, "Oh a perfect size for children!" Ahhh..NO!

My two year had to be watched with the dogs, cause he is two! When he decides to swing his toys around, jumping around foolishly, he gets disciplined.
Does he know to be gentle? I think he does at times but i take no chances, when he wants to cuddle with the dogs we make sure he is on our lap, and we hang on to his arms, cause he does not know how strong he can be. My family makes fun of my house becuase there are baby gates in every doorway, keeps my kids and dogs safe.

My yorkies like kids cause they have no reason to fear them, they have never been teased or hurt by children. (off topic but this morning I woke up to a some what funny site. The baby started to fuss in his bassinet, that was pushed up agaisnt my bed. Then he stopped suddenly, I sat up and looked, Kenzie who was sleeping on the end of the bed, had crawled into the bassinet and slept at the end of that and when the baby started to fuss she walked up next to him and and started licking her face! He was quite startled. Memo to me...make sure bassinet is not next to bed so Kenzie does not crawl in with the baby again! lol)

I have a family something like that Saleswman, I have sister that is 3 years younger and then two that are 11 and 13 years younger...my parents decided they wer enot quite finished...so now she has grandchildren and children that live at home...