If you are considering adopting an adult Yorkshire Terrier (a Yorkie) for your next pet good for you! There are thousands that need good, loving homes.

If they can’t help you, they can at least narrow your search by pointing you to the right direction.

You are not likely to have real critical problems with your Yorkie rescue dog if you adopted one from a Yorkshire Terrier breed organization. They take time to get to know the dog’s health, temperament and trainability. They don’t want the dog to come back to the shelter or foster home system. They will take the time to carefully match a dog with your needs and personality. And they should be available to help with any problems you may encounter.

Over the decades, Yorkies have been bred to be companion dogs, to be guard dogs and to kill rodents. Although there are Yorkies who will ignore small fuzzy pets, you should not tempt fate by getting a Yorkie if you already have pet hamsters, mice, rats, gerbils or guinea pigs. Keep in mind that Yorkies will bark (or yap) more than some breeds of dog, because that’s one of the things they were bred for.

The most usual problem people have with Yorkie rescue dogs is with housebreaking issues. All toy dogs have small bladders and tend to have accidents from not being able to hold a lot of urine. However, many Yorkies have been successfully trained to use a litter box. Expect your dog to have an accident if they can’t go out once every four hours in the daytime. Be sure you have cleaning materials and take anything really valuable off of the floor.

You will have to spend more money taking care of the physical health of your Yorkie rescue dog than with most other breeds of dogs. The smaller the Yorkie, the more fragile he or she will be.

Most Yorkie rescue dogs, though, are well over the breed standard’s seven pounds! Yorkies need to have their coat clipped once a month, need to go to the vet nearly as often and need to eat hard food to help their notoriously weak teeth.

Expect your Yorkie rescue dog to put up a fuss when you are out of the home and can’t bring the dog along. Yorkies do not like to be alone and go through what is called separation anxiety. However, this is a curable problem, as long as you are persistent and patient. Again, keep anything you can’t risk being destroyed away from the dog’s reach when you can’t supervise. Keeping the dog in a crate when you are gone has often proved to calm dogs down.

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