Gaining Knowledge
Dog Food
Treats and Snacks
Hypoglycemia
When Our babies leave us they will be eating Royal Canin Puppy (x-small/x-petit) and have done Excellent.
*Each pup will have some food sent home with them in their Take home bags.
If your going to switch their food to whichever dog food you prefer make sure to slowly mix the kibble over a week with less and less of the one they are currently on.
Hypoglycemia
Treats and Snacks
Hypoglycemia
What are the signs of hypoglycemia in Yorkies?
Clinical signs of hypoglycemia include weakness, lethargy, poor appetite, twitching, tremoring, seizures and coma. If left untreated, hypoglycemia WILL BE FATAL.
Hypoglycemia is common in small breeds do to their size, the smaller the Baby the higher the risk. But like a person they will get lethargic, and their head will bobble, they will stumble. Catching it quick is key! Karo syrup will perk them up, and bring sugar levels up quickly. Nutrical is a calorie booster you can give a pea size amount to them on your finger. It’s a gel. You can also give it to them morning and night the first week to help prevent low blood sugar. Sometimes going to their new homes can be stressful and exciting.
Keep food/water available at all times. If your puppy does not eat, you can mix a little bit of appetite stimulator from Royal Canin, it is a wet canned food.
Treats and Snacks
Treats and Snacks
Treats and Snacks
DO NOT give any rawhide treats. Make sure all treats/bones are rawhide free.
Bil Jac training treats are small I prefer to use these ones with All My pups.
Pork Chomps are rawhide free and the Yorkies Love them! They are great for teething and gives Them something to chew on for a while. Foods such as apple slices, carrot sticks, uncooked pumpkin, sweet potato, and squash are all tasty dog-friendly human foods that help to scrape plaque and build-up off of your dog's teeth Too!
Toys and Bedding
Toys and Bedding
Treats and Snacks
- Puppies absolutely love any ‘Crinkle’ toys. Many that I get are cat toys without Catnip or infant toys.
- Cat Tunnels to run through are an absolute blast for the Babies.
- plush Donut beds
- Play Gym with Hammock bed
- All my Pups come with a small blanket that has Mama and litter mates scent on it. This will be their Familiar comfort object when transitioning.
- snuggle Puppy ( has a heartbeat noise and heating pad)
No Free Roaming
Toys and Bedding
No Free Roaming
We strongly recommend a Puppy Play pen to allow NO free roaming. When you are there to watch Him/Her then they can be out with you, but if not then a Pen is a safe zone. If you like to crate, you can always add a crate in the pen, with their bed in it and leave the door open. They can’t hold their bladder long enough now to close the crate door for extended hours. Puppies are like babies and will chew and eat things they shouldn’t. And they are low to the ground but they will find things you don’t know are there.
They will get bored with things and want to explore. Better safe than sorry. If they eat something and create a blockage… it’s a VERY expensive surgery. IF surgery is able to save them.
Potty Training yorkie knowledge
Patience repetition and praise.
They start on pads. We use Mesh grate pad holders to hold down the pee pad, because they have a blast tearing up the Pee Pads. They are Easy to take outside and Spray down with the hose.
99.9% of breeders (especially us) won’t bring them outside before leaving their home, they aren’t vaccinated.
Then transitioning them to outside… you bring the pad closer and closer to the exit door that you take them out to go potty. Make sure you go out the same door every-time, use the same phrase each time whatever words you typically say (repetition)
Make sure you have a treat to reward them immediately after (it will reach them what they’re doing is good behavior) eventually you will only need to praise them with words ‘Good girl’ or petting them. But as babies treats are the way. (They also like cheerios too!)
DONT get frustrated and reprimand or yell or crate … they will just start hiding where they potty.
Free feeding is something we personally do. Which doesn’t help AT ALL.
So set meals helps a lot especially while they are young. And take them out when they first wake up, even if you wake them… and then again about 20 mins after meals… and then again 30 mins after that… if she/he doesn’t hold it as long as that.. do it sooner.
The bells on the door… some catch on some don’t. Make it hang on a long string so it’s not too heavy for her to nudge.. but everytime you go out the same door you ring the bell and say your phrase ‘let’s go potty’ or whatever you chose… as your about to open the door.
Area rugs and door rugs/bathroom rugs.. if there is free roaming it’s fair game..
Also with the potty pads if you do have them .. which I believe is a must (at least the first year) if you have one of the crate ones you can put some alfalfa pellets in there so it has that grass smell to get them familiar with.