After 30 years of grooming and breeding experience, we have focused all of our love and attention on  breeding healthy Yorkie and YorkiePoo puppies. Raising quality Yorkie and YorkiePoo pets brings pleasure and a sense of accomplishment. With many years of valued breeding experience, we have established an excellent reputation as well as a history of very satisfied/valued clients throughout North America.

Over the years, we have tried numerous brands of premium dog food, Science Diet, Iams, Bil Jack, etc.  All have many types of ingredients designed to give your dog the best chance at having a healthy life from the puppy stage to old age.  The premium brands will have special diets for puppies from their first solid foods to older puppy foods, then on to adult foods.  Most will also have diets for older dogs.

Never buy food based solely on price!  

Cheap food gives bulk but little care is given to the nutritional requirements of your dog.  

Our puppies are used to having a bowl of food available from morning to about 5:00 pm (your puppy should not overeat if the food is continually available). We take the food away after 5:00pm to give the food time to digest and pass through the puppy's system before settling in for the night.

Abruptly changing your puppy's diet from one brand to another brand of food may cause the puppy to have a soft stool or even Diarrhea. Don't worry if this happens. It will not last long. A home remedy for diarrhea is to give the puppy buttermilk or Pepto-Bismol twice a day (let the size of the dog determine the size of the dose, a teaspoon of tablespoon.) If diarrhea persists more than a day, see your vet.

We do not recommend feeding canned soft food. Your puppy would love it, but wet food is not good for your puppy's teeth. You might give a small amount of canned food as a treat but you and your puppy are better off if you never feed soft food. Also, we recommend not feeding "people food" to puppies for the same reason. Dry food with continually available water is best for the quality of your puppy's long term physical health and maintaining healthy teeth.

Some puppy foods do not have sugar added to keep the sugar level in the puppies blood at the desired level. If the puppy begins to stiffen or become lethargic, it may be having a hypoglycemic reaction. Do not panic. 

Should your puppy ever have a sugar deficiency in its diet, use a small amount of White Kayro Syrup or a small amount (about the size of three peas) of Nutri-Cal to bring the puppies blood sugar up to a desired level.  

Most premium puppy foods have sugar in them which usually prevents hypoglycemia in puppies.  Some puppies, like children, are so active that they will burn up their sugar faster than it is replaced. This is especially true with very small puppies with their tiny stomachs. Most will grow out of this as they mature.

Socialization:
Our puppies have been raised with both adult dogs and other puppies. Further, all of our puppies have been given considerable personal socialization with children and adult people. When they adjust to their new home, you will find that they love to have "belly rubs". Turn the puppy over on its back as you would hold a human baby and rub the puppy's chest and upper stomach. Puppies also love to have their heads rubbed around the
base of their ears as you give them "belly rubs".


House Training:
Adult dogs can carry viruses that do not affect them, but might be dangerous to a small puppy.  Additionally, puppies' immune systems take time to devlop.  Therefore, we do not allow our puppies outside to use the same areas designated for our adult dogs to relieve themselves.  We use treated Puppy Pads to train the puppies where we want them to relieve themselves.   Always keep the pads in the same place until the puppy has learned to use the puppy-pads.  Then slowly move the pad to the door and finally, outside.  This is one manner of house-training puppies.

Another, and many say the best, way to "House Train" your puppy is to keep puppies in their kennel at night.  Take puppies outside just before putting them in the kennel at night and immediately after taking them out of the kennel in the morning.  Most often, puppies will not urinate or defecate in their kennels unless left beyond their capacity to "hold" their urges. Overnight is not too long.

Again, as soon you get up in the morning, take your puppy out for its bodily functions. It will be a bonding event for the both of you.  Praise the puppy liberally when it urinates or defecates. Also take your puppy out as often as possible during the day. Watch for the puppy to start sniffing the floor and turning in circles, as it smells the floor. It is a sign of a puppy's desire to urinate or defecate. Be patient, your puppy will have "accidents" but if you are attentive, they will be minimal.


Grooming:
A Mat brush can be purchased at Wal-Mart or any pet store. We recommend a small mat brush that is able to get between the puppy's legs and does not pull on too much of its coat at one time. Your puppy needs to be brushed every day. While you hold the puppy in your lap is a great time to do gently brush it. Your puppy may resist it at first, but keep it up. Brush gently, and lightly. If the puppy resists, just brush a few times at first and increase the time each day. Your puppy will quickly begin to enjoy the closeness and the massage of the brush.  This will prevent mats in the puppy's coat and allow the growth of a healthy shiny coat. Once the puppy adjusts to the brushing, it will seek this grooming from you and almost go to sleep because the puppy is so content.


Bathing:
Bathe your puppy in baby shampoo for the first few of months and then change to a mild puppy shampoo. Continue to use the baby shampoo on the puppy’s head and face even after it is mature so nothing will irritate your puppy's (or dog's) eyes. Also, use a cream rinse. Yours is fine. Again, keep the cream rinse out of the puppy's eyes. Unless the puppy has found something to roll in to get extremely dirty, it will not need a bath more than twice a month.  Bathing too often is not healthy for your puppy's skin.  

Clipping Nails:
Puppies will need their nails clipped regularly. Do it for the puppy's benefit as well as your own, Sharp nails hurt both of you. Be careful if you choose to do this yourself. Cutting too much is painful to puppies and causes severe bleeding. We recommend taking your puppy to a groomer for your puppy's nail trims until you learn just how much to cut. It is best to take puppies to a groomer at least once a month. Your groomer may
spot changes in the puppy's coat or skin before you see them.

No information provided in this website is meant to be taken as medical advice. Follow the advice of your veterinarian.  We urge you to take your puppy to a Veterinarian when it shows any long term symptoms of illness.

We are very concerned about the health of our puppies and they see a vet after they are born and anytime we become concerned. 

You may call or e-mail at any time.  We include unlimited free consultations as a part of our service to our clients.  Your questions help us to help others who adopt a puppy.

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