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[Lemmonie]

Randomly I had a local lady on Facebook say she is looking to rehome her Yorkshire terrier cross dog. I went to see her tonight.
3 years old, female, just had a litter 8 weeks ago. Has a little lump in her abdomen which apparently she has had for a while, it sometimes goes down. According to current owner vet said its nothing to worry about. She is "due" a booster, not microchipped.
Reason for rehiring is lady is due to move and can't take any of her pets with her.

Dog seemed quite happy, not yappy, liked cuddles, put her teeth round my hand couple of times but not a real bite.


What am I missing? What are the dangers I should be worried if anything?

[digger the goat]

What are you missing ?????

A Yorkie in your house!!

Edited by digger the goat on Monday 27th January 20:29

[Lemmonie]

What happens if there is another reason she is being rehomed?

[parakitaMol.]

From the sound of the poor little dog's background (used for breeding then got rid of at the drop of a hat via Facebook to virtual strangers) and also the unknown dormant health and behaviour issues... You will probably end up with a few surprises both in health and behaviour terms. The dog will probably need quite a bit of time and support and love. If she has been used for breeding please, please take her to the vet to be neutered.

[digger the goat]

This exactly what the smaller dog on My photo was used for.. Then found in a house with her owner dead on the floor..

She had issues but 4 months on she is a transformed animal..
She hated women and children and was aggressive towards Monty to start with.

After socializing her ( trips to pub ).. she is a loving and content little girl ( also around 3 yrs old ).

Go for it.. Insure her straight away.. Make sure that you have a 'friendly' vet when they assess her for the first time ( nudge wink ).

Go for it...she has obviously pulled at your heart strings !!

Give the little girl a second chance... Keep us posted

[parakitaMol.]

Lemmonie said:

What happens if there is another reason she is being rehomed?

Take her for a health check first, take her for a trial period? but either way it sounds like she'd be better with you than this woman. I can't understand anyone who is able to just give away a pet. Rescue centres are overflowing but she'd stand a better chance even there with veterinary attention than with this woman.

[Lemmonie]

We have asked if she can come for a doggy "sleepover" then assuming there are no glaringly obvious issues to stay. Will get her a flea treatment, wormed immediately and microchipped and insured. Then get a health check. She didn't appear ill treated and greeted us well and happy. I'd be more worried if she was cowering or barking. What's the worse that can happen eh?

[KFC]

Lemmonie said:

We have asked if she can come for a doggy "sleepover" then assuming there are no glaringly obvious issues to stay. Will get her a flea treatment, wormed immediately and microchipped and insured. Then get a health check. She didn't appear ill treated and greeted us well and happy. I'd be more worried if she was cowering or barking. What's the worse that can happen eh?

Unless you are willing to take on potentially large vet bills, I would do the health check before the sleep over. You don't really want to get the family attached to the new dog, and then find out there is a £2500 vet bill on the way. At that point you're pretty much committed to taking her already, and you're going to need to eat a large bill. Far easier to do the vet check first then be able to walk away from it if needbe.

[KFC]

You could also consider other rescue dogs. I foster rescue dogs and I look after them temporarily until they can be rehomed permanently - I've got a brilliant one here with me right now. Female, around 2 years old. She's absolutely brilliant with other dogs and kids. I take her to the beach most days with my friends 4 year old son and she loves playing with him







Her name is Iris. She's such a loving dog and its unfortunate that she's had such a bad life so far. If you were interested, I could have her delivered to you in UK and it'd cost you nothing (I'll personally pay all the travel stuff, passport etc). And with this one there is no funny business with the vets, health issues and so on. She's got a clean bill of health and you'd have no problem insuring her, and no potential huge bills being hidden from you

Edited by KFC on Wednesday 29th January 07:56

[TwistingMyMelon]

If you decide to re-home, get her checked by the vet first. We rehomed a cat in past and a few weeks later it developed an expensive bladder infection , the vet said more than likely it would have not been the first time it happened , after a long story we decided to put him down

[Lemmonie]

I pick her up at 5.30pm and go straight to the vets for a consultation. Im aware without doing blood test etc he wont know everything but on the phone they seemed quite happy to give her a real good check.

If kept I would go for pet insurance as i couldnt afford big vet bills at all.

[KFC]

Lemmonie said:

If kept I would go for pet insurance as i couldnt afford big vet bills at all.

You are going to need to be very very careful here - insurance won't cover any pre-existing conditions so whatever that lump is, is not going to be covered by whatever insurance you take out.

[boobles]

KFC said:

You are going to need to be very very careful here - insurance won't cover any pre-existing conditions so whatever that lump is, is not going to be covered by whatever insurance you take out.

This ^^^^^^^^^.....

Can't you have a chat with the vet who claims the dog is fit & healthy?

[Lemmonie]

so this didn't go well at all.

Collected Masie and headed straight to vets

Was told she was about 5 not 3 like we had been told. Had a skin condition, fleas and most probably worms, a chest infection and a hernia.
Whilst we were there another little dog came in and Maisie went berserk. All the vet staff were taken aback at her behaviour and it was easily agreed she has been puppy farmed.

I got vet to that the flea, worm, chest and skin condition then took her home.
She is not house trained at all. Got parents and husband together for a crisis talk and it was quickly decided that she wasn't for us as we want a dog to be sociable, walkable and we haven't got the skills, time or best suited to support her. So what next? Well we took her back. I really don't want fleas in my house or kids getting worms. We did consider waiting till tomorrow and trying to rehome her ourselves but decided that we'd take her back and I will report her to RSPCA tomorrow. She is selling puppies that won't have had vet treatment or attention either and she needs to be stopped breeding dogs.

So, £50 down, kids terribly upset, I'm upset. But at least the dog got treatment for fleas and worms and got some antibiotics. I think we have learnt a big lesson and won't be rushing in to dog ownership anytime soon

[ali_kat]

I'd take KFC up on his offer!!

It's not that you are not cut out for a dog, it's that it was the wrong dog

Poor Maisie

[leafspring]

I'd go for the rescue dog too, KFC makes an excellent offer.

Breeders are a mixed bunch, our dogs were bred (pedigree schipperkes KC certs an all) but our breeder was a mix of good and bad. They were (still are) house trained, healthy, clean, chipped and cared for but their tails were docked and they weren't socialised.

They're still a bit bitey when startled and woe betide anything with 4 legs that gets within range

Puppy farmers are bad news

[Hooli]

Poor lil Yorkie They are great little dogs & it's a shame one has been ruined by a crap owner.

[KFC]

If you don't fancy the one I have, or you'd rather see one in person before committing to it, its definitely worth speaking to local dog homes/charities and ask if anyone is temporarily fostering dogs that are looking to be rehomed. That way you get one thats been 'test driven' and you will be able to get a good idea of how they behave (along with also being fully checked out health wise).

This one I have lives with me, in my house. So I'm perfectly able to describe its behaviour, I know its clean and house trained etc. I can comfortably say she's good around dogs, kids, unknown visitors to the house etc. If you take a dog from a random facebook post you really don't have any guarantees on any issue at all, as you've unfortunately found out.

I've got a few local leads I'm following up as far as Iris goes... but that offer is open to anyone - I'll have her shipped to UK if anyone with a good home wants her and can properly take care of her. We ship quite a lot of dogs to UK homes... so its perfectly normal/easy for me to organise

[Lemmonie]

Well, I have reported the owner to RSPCA and hopefully little Maisie will be rescued by them and found a better home. Hopefully the puppies too will be rescued before an unsuspecting family brings home their new puppy with worms and fleas. We are so sad but hopefully we have done what we can.

[Lemmonie]

Update: RSPCA have been to her and she signed the dogs over. Hopefully that means Maisie will be looked after and found the perfect home