These Puppy Care Instructions are to help you and your new puppy to have a healthy and happy relationship.

The suggestions and tips I give you come from my own experience and from information gathered from other yorkie breeders and owners.

First of all, when you first bring your new puppy home do not overextend his playtime or outings. Keeping these times to a half an hour for the first two weeks. This will help your puppy adjust to his new home and to you.

Puppies need naps and quiet time just like new babies.

If for some reason, you can no longer care for your puppy please contact me.

FEEDING 

You must watch to make sure that your new puppy is eating. The stress of going to a new home and getting fatigued from being handled by their new family can be overwhelming and cause them to not eat. This can cause hypoglycemia.

Feed your puppy good, quality food. I will give the new owner enough food to last the Yorkie/Morkie puppy a while from when they leave my household, so if you are going to change the brand please do it gradually while mixing with what brand I have given you.

I let them eat freely, keeping food in their bowl at all times. Most Yorkies will not overeat.

Never feed them table food. There are people foods that they cannot tolerate. Ex: Chocolate, grapes, onions, raw eggs, dairy products, etc..

SLEEPING 

Your new puppy needs a nice, warm, and quiet place to get away form the family and noise. Children should be taught not to disturb a puppy if it is sleeping.

Expect your new puppy to cry at night when left alone the first few days. He/she is used to littermates and the mom, so they will not like being left alone.

Your new puppy is coming to you with toys and a blanket that has my scent on it along with its littermates. This will help comfort them ,try not to wash it until your puppy is settled in.

SAFTEY

When Yorkies are on the floor, learn to do the yorkie shuffle, they are so quick and can easily be stepped on.

Do not allow children to run and roughhouse when a puppy is around, they can trip and fall on the puppy causing serious injury.

Have children sit on the floor when holding the puppy, they can wiggle out of the childs arms and fall or jump to the floor.

Be careful when closing doors, slamming a door on them can cause fatal injuries. If gates are not a option, get into the habit of picking up your puppy when you open the door.

Have your puppy spayed/neutered. This can prevent a variety of health issues including cancer. They make nicer pets when you do not have to worry about the girls' heat cycle or the little boys marking.

Your puppy needs constant supervision when not in a confined area.

HOUSETRAINING 

Your puppy will be a baby for at least a year or longer. Do not expect it to be fully housetrained before that time. It might be trained sooner if  you are lucky. Just like a child, house training is a gradual process. It will not happen overnight.

Just because they are trained in one room of the house does not mean they are trained in another room. Every new room is a new world to them.

There are many different methods, you can find information about house training on the internet. The method you choose it up to you, just be consistant.

Puppies come to you almost completely paper trained. Weather permitting, we will start outdoor training.