We have all heard and learned over and over again how behavior in rescued puppy mill yorkies surface. Obviously it’s a psychological thing, and I strongly believe that such behavior issues (mostly negative) can be curbed.
Not easily, but with compassion, patience, love, and thorough understanding CAN turn these once-abused yorkies into normal, loving, and adorable canines, you wouldn’t believe it.
Every yorkie owner breeds and trains his pet to accord to his master’s surroundings as humans do – fitting in the norm, as one should say. But puppy mill yorkies are rather grossly trained to keep their silence to breed puppies for profit. Seeing their living conditions seriously makes me throw up.
Bitches living in a secluded place where she can only see and feel other bitches enduring the same fate hurts them physically, mentally, and emotionally. This is also the kind of fate that cuts them away from human beings, too.
One can never really stand the sight of such yorkie enduring the kind of torture being imposed on them. In this case, these puppy mill yorkies are mostly devoid of human contact.
So they live and eat like everyday, only to wake up to live and eat again, being ‘cared for’ by the most uncaring people that ever lived on this planet. These same people have succeeded in instilling the horror in the minds of these poor bitches for the sake of money!
Now, it doesn’t surprise me if puppy mill yorkies display extreme behaviors against people. They cower in fear. Sometimes presence of human beings alone brings out the beast in them. And one can’t blame them for acting like that.
I have always wondered WHY do these sick people do such things… I can never understand their ‘logic’ (suuuure) with regard to ‘manufacturing’ puppies in such a way that trust does not coexist between these puppy mill yorkies and their ‘masters.
I don’t know, but if I ever volunteered to rescue puppy mill yorkies and it so happened that their owner were there- I would definitely take a swing. It doesn’t matter if he’s way bigger than me. The ‘fair treatment’ (AKA abuse) he is giving so-called ‘pets’ is big enough for anyone, or for any yorkie to muster.
One can never really wholly make this world a better place, but if you do care for these yorkies – report an incident that you know of right now.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
I adopted a puppy mill yorkie a short time ago and I still haven’t been able to fully potty trin her, but it takes a lot of patience and love. Unfortunately I think she went through a bad spat since she’s seven years old and has only three teeth left, but my roommate and I are always taking turns holding her and helping with new sights and sounds which obviously she was denied most of her life. The one thing to remember is that although she has a tough time learning things she no doubt feels the love and appreciates everything you do for her–
January 10th, 2010 at 10:20 am
We adopted a Yorkie rescued dog and she has been such a wonderful pet. Yes, it does take patience and she is still not completely potty trained but she has made enormous progress. When we first received her, she could barely even stand, walked with her head down and did not want to be around people. She has learned to love and trust our family and likes to sit next to us in chairs, on couches and beds but she does not like to be held. It is so rewarding because we know that she loves us, she follows me around everywhere but does not want to be picked up. She however will not let me out of her sight so I think in time she may learn to trust even more and will get more comfortable with being held. I love her so much and find her so precious, I am so happy that we rescued her and I know that she loves our family too.