:bravo: :bravo: :bravo: :bravo: :bravo: SOOO AGREE! Theres is nothing wrong with animals froma shelter and shes right...If you cant afford a 400.00 yorkie than you need to look at another dog or be patient...sorry but if I was a breeder and you came up to me with your attitude I wouldnt sell you dog NO MATTER how much money you had!!

perfectly said.

jamie 5511- i'm sorry but your comments have really bothered me.. i dont think you have any idea what you are getting into. if you cannot afford a $400 dog WHAT are you going to do if something goes wrong. pets are awesome, but its not fair to get one and not be able to keep it healthy and happy. it's not fair to the dog. look, my first yorkie was a $400 puppy. guess what? he was cheap- for a reason i did not know at the time. he had a liver shunt and he is now three years old and you would not believe the total cost of all his vet bills!!!! i would not trade my baby for the world, even though those vet bills were hard to swallow for everyone in my family we were lucky enough to be able to give him what he needed. rescues are in my opinion some of the best companions EVER. they are incredibly loyal and just want your love. don't always assume they are sick and have issues. they are rescued, which means they have been taken care of and need new forever homes. and if they do need extra help, why not be the person to give them a second chance.

I don't say much on here but have to say something now.
I got one of my yorkies from the local shelter and she is nothing but a 4lb bundle of love. I feel like just the way she looks at me she is thanking me everyday for rescueing her. She already came to us potty trained, how often does that happen when you get a dog elsewhere?
She is nothing but sheer delight.
You really shouldn't knock something if you've never tried it.

Well said!

If you cant afford $400 you are not gonna be able to afford the vet bills. If they get sick it can run you in the thousands. I had to pay $250.00 the very next day after getting mine for shots. One of my yorkies was $600.00 and that is low for a yorkie. You might want to consider another breed.

I agree with everyone on here I mean if you can't afford a yorkie for it's original price then you can't afford the grooms and the vets and care that the Yorkie breed needs!! And if your picky enough to not want a Rescue dog then I don't think that you need a Yorkie or any dog for that matter!!

Appology
 

:) Jamie - I feel I owe you an appology. I had a restless night and and haven't stopped thinking about my snap reply all day.

I had a bad day yesterday on the heels of a long week which included my hard drive in my lap top frying. Last night was the first time I got to sit down and sign on to YT for a little relaxation in almost a week. I had my furbabies all sitting with me and was looking to see what everyone had been up to. I am afraid that I took personal offense for my own pups in regards to your comments about the health of rescue animals. Instead of taking the opportunity to use the situation as a way to share with you something you aren't aware of (the quality/joy of rescuing) - I snapped back. I am sorry.

Your comments regarding shelter animals came across as very ignorant and cold hearted. We all know that while email and IM's have increased the ease of communication for the majority of us, it has not necessarily improved the quality of that communication. It is very easy to misunderstand intent and I hope that this is one of those cases on my part.

What I would have preferred to have done is to have shared with you a few facts about what adopting from a rescue organization and/or shelter really means. I allowed my back to get up and never took the time to remember that everyone who adopts a rescue has a first time - and how much that experience changes us. I am lucky that my own mother introduced this concept to me years ago (I'm not telling how long ago except that I was in the single digets!:) )

Shelters and rescues have changed so much over the years. Adopting a dog from a shelter does not mean having to head to your local city pound and viewing the dogs through the bars. The majority of the time when you adopt a shelter dog - you end up knowing more about their health, personality and needs than you might if you purchased the dog through other means. There is an long application and interview process.

Adopting a dog from a good rescue is not an easy task as the angel's that are involved in the true rescuing really do care about where their little charges are going and want to make sure the forever home - is really that! A good rescue organization will help you identify what your needs are in a family pet and help you identify not only the right breed but the right new companion for your family taking into account all the limiting parameters (young children, activity level, financial etc.)

I hope you accept my apology for sounding off instead of taking the time to help turn you on to the hidden diamond just waiting to be adopted at your local shelter. I too always feel I know what I want in a family pet and honestly - I have always found it waiting for me in a rescue pet. Granted - it's not always been wrapped in the package I thought I had in mind but as the song goes... some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers!

It is my hope that your search has a happy ending for you.

J

Sorry - mean Apology!
 

See what I mean! ;)

i agree if 400 is to much wake up and smell the coffee even a bad back yard breeder who has put a brother and sister to mate will sell for a high price there is no yorkie for less than 900 that i have seen and that was from a breeder just starting she seems nice anyway you will not find one for less than that good breeders charge a lot cause they do a lot for them from what i hear they do not even make much off there pups and a bad breeder is going to charge a lot cause they are greedy for money so you can go to the end of the earth to look im sorry you will not find one i am also looking money is not my problem mine is im scared to travel and i want a pup from a lady in CA so im goin back and forth shelter dogs are not sick my 2 black cats came from the shelter and there are great yorkie shelters but keep looking and good luck in finding what you want

Hi - I just wanted to say that over 6 years ago, I had the same mentality. I wanted a yorkie SO BAD - but didn't have the $$ all breeders were asking for. I ended up saving the money, very little by little (sometimes $20 at a time). I saved up the $400 plus $250 more for the vet bill and getting Maxx fixed (I never can remember if its spay or neuter). Since then, Maxx broke his leg (he fell off the back of the couch during a thunderstorm while we were at work & the kids were at school) - that cost us $1200 to put pins in his leg. Last year he had to have surgery to remove a calcium stone - that was $800. He is very allergic to EVERYTHING, so over the last 6 years that he's been with our family, we've spent probably thousands of dollars in prednisone, antibiotics and everything else working with his allergies. The prednisone caused the calcium stone and the $800 surgery. He now eats hypoallergenic food (twice as expensive as Iams) and we spending about $40 every two months for his allergy medicine he needs twice a day. So we call him our million dollar dog! My other two yorkies we have that are younger are very healthy (whew!) and their maintenace costs are nothing compared to Maxx's. So I learned through the school of hard knocks that it takes much more than just the initial purchase to care from some yorkies. We just love him so much and know that had he gone to someone else, they may have just dumped him at the human society or whatever since he is so high maintenance - many times we juggled bills to see he got the medical attention he needed. So please think long and hard and be very realistic because its a craps shoot on whether your baby will have allergies or not - its not something that you will know about beforehand. Yorkies have grooming costs and they MUST be groomed regularly, their teeth have to be maintained, ear hairs have to be pulled, anal glands to be expressed and the list goes on and on - not to mention that if you get a yorkie, you have made a commitment to that dog - a 24/7 job and lifesyle change. Some of my friends make fun of me because I go home right after work every day and when we travel, we take all 3 dogs with us - we are a package deal. My response when they make fun of me is "I didn't get my dogs so they could stay home alone everyday 24 hours a day". Maxx was so sick as a baby, I just know if he hadn't gotten care he's had, he may not be here alive today, and I say this not to be mean, but please listen to others are saying -- If you cannot afford the inital price to get the puppy, you probably can't afford the maintenance costs of a puppy that may have allergies - just please think about it. They're really cute when you look at them, but yorkies do have drawbacks and allergies are one of them and they can be costly to care for.

Wow! sorry to hear what happened to your little furbaby. But you are right. It isn't just the "start up cost." It's the maintenance costs too! :thumbup: