11 Week Old Charlie Needs the Perfect Home
 

My landlady has surprised me with the requirement of an additional pet fee for our second yorkie we just brought home. I can't afford the amount she is giving me along with the additional rent. She communicated this after we brought him home even though she knew we were bringing him home. I don't currently have a lease so there's nothing I can do about it. Anyhow, let me get to the more important information. I am looking for the perfect home for Charlie. Charlie is an 11 week old 3lbs yorkie puppy. He's intelligent and very playful. I love his personality. He's too young to have mastered potty training but we're working on it. He's bonded with my 7 year old daughter but avoids my adult yorkie. He is submissive towards her but just doesn't really want to interact with her yet. I will need to meet anyone who is interested in adopting Charlie and I will need to check 3 personal references. I need to know that you understand what it will be like to have a yorkie and especially a yorkie puppy. He is very special to my daughter and I and I will not allow someone to adopt him unless I know you can provide the right home for him. Charlie is up to date on his vaccinations for his age but will need more as he grows older. He's also taking monthly heartworm preventive medication. I can provide paperwork for his vaccinations. He has a very good sense of humor and loves to sleep with my daughter. Charlie especially likes a good ear rub. He isn't a complete cuddler yet but he's still young for that. My daughter and I love him so much already so if you seem like a good fit for Charlie, please contact me as soon as possible. I am requiring a $300 adoption fee to ensure only serious adopters. I keep getting errors when I try to upload a photo so email me and I can email you photos. I don't have the means to transport him so only inquire if you're able to travel to Durham, NC. My email: sarajbarone@live.com
My daughter and I are heart broken so please if you're going to leave a comment, please don't let be anything harsh.

Wow! If I didn't have a puppy coming (due to be born any day now) I would gladly take him! My daughter will be 17 years old next week and is looking for a Yorkie and we have arranged to get a Yorkie Mix puppy (we have pick of the litter). I am only a couple hours from Durham too! I could easily have drove to get him. We are actually getting our puppy from Michigan. LOL

Good luck finding him a great home. :aimeeyork

Jade

Did the breeder not have any contract to take him back if you could not keep him?

I didn't get him from the breeder. This will be his second rehoming already. :(

Oh my goodness poor guy.

Yep, like I said..we're heart broken.

Oh, the poor baby! I got a 10 month old dog many years ago (not a yorkie) and I was her 4th home in the last 6 months. I felt so bad for her. She was so afraid every time I took her in the car that I was taking her to a new home. She got over that in time though and learned that she was loved dearly by me. Unfortunately she had cancer and died last summer.

I was not looking to get my yorkie when I got him, but I was in the right spot at the right time and I couldn't not take him. Best thing that has happened to me in a long time.

Good luck with him. He really does need the right home. He needs to be loved and secure because switching homes like that can be stressful on a dog. Others though take it in stride when they are placed in the right home and realize that the others were just temporary stops on their way to their forever home.

Anyway, good luck! As I said, if I didn't already have a puppy lined up I would be interested.

Yes, I feel horrible that he's switching homes again. This has been a night full of tears in our home. I really am hoping not to hear about how bad this is and hoping to find a good home for him because I'm aware how horrible this is and I am really upset with myself right now. However, I was willing to take whatever comments came my way if it meant finding the right home for Charlie.

Yes, I should've gotten it in writing before I brought him. I knew better. Thank you for your kind words. He really is a great pup and deserves a great family.

Sara, I was not trying to be mean. I just know how it can be on the dog, but I also know it can have a happy ending. My setter was just passing through homes until she found me. Her and I had a great bond.

I do hope you find him a great home and I was not trying to be negative about the situation because sometimes things just happen like this.

I was just given a 9 year old Yorkie because the family he had is splitting up and they didn't want him in the middle of it. It is bad enough that the kids are in the middle of it.

I hope you find him a wonderful home and that he ends up happy and secure.

Have you thought of doing a go fund me thing and sharing it on fb and having your friends share it and try to make enough money to pay the pet deposit?

That really is a good idea but I'm in a mess right now without having an actual lease. She wants to increase my rent to more than I can afford because of Charlie. I really need to just move but I can't afford it right now.

Wow, my heart goes out to you and your daughter and the lil baby.Not your fault but I just need to say, how awful for the baby to be re-homed a 3rd time. Good he is only 11 weeks, I believe he will adjust quickly since seems he hasn't been in both homes long enough to form a strong bond. When I was a renter I lived in a pvt house, landlady lived below me, every 3rd year I was buying another yorkie till I ended up with 3, she never charged me for having a dog or the 3 I ended up with, actually I don't believe any landlords were charging extra for dogs back then. I lived in NY at that time. Truly sorry you and your daughter have to go through this. (((HUGS)))

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GREAT idea Taylor!!!!!!!!!! Certainly would be better for the puppy....so young and having been rehomed so many times already....

In NY, NJ and Pa. pet fee is a monthly fee, the fee goes by the weight of the dog, this gets added to your rent, so it's like a rent increase. I don't know if that is what the OP is facing.

I can't stand it when landlords feel as though they can manipulate tenants and also the fact that tenants feel as though they have no options. Honestly it's very risky not having a lease to begin with for your own security, but I'm sure you realize that. Maybe she would be willing to take an additional security over a few months. Maybe $30 extra per month till you have reached an agreed upon deposit amount. As far as charging the extra monthly pet fee you should question that and be firm. Even though there's no written lease, you have a verbal one at the moment and since you are not paying an extra fee per month for a pet that you already have and that you had when you moved in, she can't change that. Im sure financially for her it would be a strain to have to evict you and for you to take the allowed 90 days to not pay her rent and to move out. not having a lease can actually be to your advantage in that situation. Good luck.

You live in NY, maybe NY gives 90 days, every state is different, every county with-in that state is also different. OP rescued her first dog in Oct. 2014, she may have been living there when she got this rescue. A lease is mainly protection for the renter. When I was renting in a pvt. house my landlady told me she doesn't do leases, this way it makes it easy on both of us, if I want to move or she wants me out no lease to bind either one of us. I was lucky, I lived there for 22 years and 3 dogs.This was in NY.

Do you have anyone interested yet i might be

so sorry
 

Sara,
This is so sad. I really truly understand how you feel. Last year I agreed to take home a dog whose "Daddy" died of cancer. And this little guy was the perfectly behaved gentleman I had always wanted. He was playful, affectionate, trained and had obviously been well loved and cared for.
Then my husband returned to work and we realized Duke had severe separation anxiety. I have never seen anything like it. He would be physically ill when we returned home, even if we were only gone an hour. I believed it was cruel to keep him seeing how it affected him. So I returned him to the foster mother I got him from. I felt terrible. I knew he was suffering the loss of his family and I felt I had hurt him when all I wanted was to help. The foster mother was vicious, talked about me terribly said I was incompetent etc. I was crushed.

Moving forward. ..Duke was adopted by a retired woman who was the perfect match for him. He is healthy and happy. He was older when this happened to him. ..but he survived and is well and content. You are doing everything you can. I am so sorry this has happened, but guilt and pain added to the top of grief is to much. This too shall pass and all will be well again

My heart goes out to you
 

If I lived closer to you, I'd be there this afternoon. I just rescued a little yorkie who is 4 months old now. There is a long story attached to her, but because she was born with a deformity, her life was doomed by the owners who were going to euthanize her. Fortunately, I have a friend who heard about the situation and told me (I had just lost my dear little 16 yr old Shih Tzu, had a hole as big as the world in my heart). Once I had this little puppy in my hands it was love at first sight! I'd love to get her a little sibling, but I live in NJ. Not sure I could afford to send for her and all that. But I wish you all the best in finding a wonderful new home for her..

Maybe it would be a good thing to surrender this baby to a rescue...they will make certain the puppy goes to a great home, they will make sure he is all vaccinated and ready to go.....it just seems so very sad to me that an 11 week old puppy has already been rehomed 3 times....he apparently left the breeder at a very early age, and every home he has been to since only kept him a week! His new home must be vetted and checked out thoroughly to be sure he isnt sent out again and I cant help but think a rescue would make sure he went to a home that would not have to rehome him.....

How do you delete threads? I thought I could handle whatever comments came my way but I just can't deal with the added guilt when someone reminds me of what I already know and already feel horrible about him being rehomed again. I expected it because i Know how some people on here can be but I just can't deal with it.

You can have a post closed but it can not be deleted. I don't think anyone is being mean at all. They are just thinking about the puppy.

Suggestions are KINDLY and GENTLY being offered to help you rehome this puppy. Nothing has been said or implied by anyone, that YOU should feel guilty about anything.

"I expected it because i Know how 'some people on here' can be". ?????????!! Helpful? Concerned? Kind? Offering hints, tips, suggestions??? No one tried to make you feel guilty! Which of these posts offended your sensibilities?

Excuse me.....Let me go brush the egg shells off the bottom of my feet!~

Can someone please tell me how to close a thread? Thank you.

Please do not feel that anyone is trying to attack you. Everyone just feels bad for you and the puppy and are trying to come up with solutions. I am so sorry that your landlady has put you in such a sad situation. (( Hugs))

I believe if you want to close a thread you can just click on the triangle with the exclamation point on it in the box below your avatar. A message box will appear and you can type in this request.

Unfortunately, I'm subscribed to the other thread where this thread was referenced. I don't want to argue with people about this. I never said someone was rude as they claimed I said in the other thread. I said I don't want to hear about how horrible this is that I'm rehoming him. I don't need to be reminded that it is bad that he's switching homes. And frankly, I would've been approved by a rescue to adopt him as well because my landlady would've approved his arrival with a rescue group just like she approved it with me. I'm just too sensitive about this to read over and over how horrible this is for him. I know it is. I agree.