Totty's Tiny Paws - Yorkies Colorado

23/04/2025

Does this little scruffy boy look sad to you? He does to us too! The family who reserved him has stopped responding. He should have gone home a couple weeks ago. He keeps getting his weekly bath so he can look his best, hoping they will come.

At this point, they have forfeited his reservation. Oliver needs someone to step up and give him the loving home he deserves. He would love to warm your lap and play in your home. If you're interested in information on his situation, contact us directly, not in the comments.

22/04/2025

WARNING: Incoming Rant Alert:

Stop wasting my time!
If you're going to apply for a puppy—please—do everyone a favor and follow through. It is incredibly disrespectful to take the time to fill out an application, show interest, and then completely disappear. Do you realize how much time and energy goes into reading 25-50 daily applications, reaching out to hear what you're looking for, checking references, coordinating messages, and arranging meetups?

My time is valuable. I’m not sitting around with unlimited hours in the day just waiting to hear from people who don’t have the basic courtesy to reply. When you don’t respond, you're not just wasting my time—you're taking away an opportunity for that puppy to find a loving, reliable home. And that’s not fair to anyone.

Here’s the thing: if you can’t even respond to a message or give a simple update, what message do you think that gives about how you’d treat a living, breathing animal who must depend on you for everything? Communication is the absolute bare minimum when it comes to pet ownership. And if that’s already too much, then you’re showing me exactly why I shouldn’t trust you with one of my puppies.

So please, if you’re not serious, don’t apply. And if something changes, just say so. A simple “I’ve changed my mind” or “I’m no longer able to adopt” goes a long way. I’m not mad you can’t adopt—life happens. I am mad when people treat my time, my effort, and my puppies like they don’t matter.

Do better. For the sake of the dogs. And for the people behind the scenes trying to find them the best homes possible.

*Photo is Oliver from our previous litter.

22/04/2025

Our beautiful breed is the spotlight breed of the day! It's a fun and informative couple minutes.

21/04/2025

A delayed Happy Easter to everyone from Izzy & Vinz's "F" Litter
1 💙 & 2 🩷

21/04/2025

I've been waiting for them to showcase our breed!!

Beneath the dainty, glossy, floor-length coat of a Yorkshire Terrier beats the heart of a feisty, old-time terrier. Yorkies earned their living as ratters in mines and mills long before they became Victorian lapdogs.

Why do you love the breed?

21/04/2025

What a wonderful Easter Surprise! Osiris opened his eyes today 💓👀

19/04/2025

THANK YOU!

We have reached 500 Followers!

18/04/2025

Meet the mom and dad of our "F" Litter.
Dam - Izzy
Sire - Vinz

17/04/2025

Osiris Update!

Our lone survivor is on his way to tripling his birth weight. He's come and long way in 2 weeks. This picture is a little blurry, but our sweet tiny boy is snuggled in to mom, Capt'n.

17/04/2025

We're happy to announce the birth of Izzy and Vinz's "F" Litter!!

We have been blessed with 1 boy and 2 girls. No names yet as we are having a hard time deciding on what pop culture theme we like.

Our choices so far are:
1. Firefly - Mal, Kaylee & Zoey
2. Fifth Element - Cornelius, Leloo & Lagoona
3. Ferris Bueller - Farris, Simone & Jean
4. ???

Comment with a number for your vote or type in your own suggestion. Help us decide.

15/04/2025

It's been a hard and difficult 2 weeks. On April 1st, my beautiful Capt'n gave birth to 4 beautifully perfect, but extremely tiny babies. A week later, we have lost all the babies but one.
One didn't survive the birth, Cleopatra
Another died on the 6th day, Nefertiti
We lost a third on the 8th day, Anubis
It's pure devastation and soul crushing heartbreak.

These are the days you don't see on social media pages where showing cute puppies and loving mama's are the bread and butter of our page. Our Capt'n was so stressed from her delivery, multiple ER visits and depression from losing baby after baby, that she hadn't eaten in 9 days. Her milk didn't exist. Day after day of Veterinary interventions, trying to entice her to eat, day after day of trying to increase her milk supply, day after day of hourly or every 2 hours of tube feeding babies to save lives and we're barely holding on.

At the end of our 2 weeks, we've lost 3 tiny souls. Cleopatra, Nefertiti and Anubis have all passed away. We're crushed. To move forward, we must find a silver lining. Our silver lining . . . we still have one tiny boy, Osiris, that Capt'n has continued to feed. He's lost weight and gained weight and I believe we are now on the upswing. A second silver lining, Capt'n has FINALLY started to eat some food. It's not much, but every bite is a positive step towards healing her body and heart. The reality is we were so close to loosing our mamma too. We are still walking a very thin line with her life, but it's getting slightly better each day.

This whole experience has been extraordinarily heartbreaking and stressful. It's one of those events that you know will happen at some point on this path where animals are your life's passion. You always know statistically your time for this experience is coming. Your going to suffer great tragedy. You never want it to come and when it does, it seems to hit the litter you had the most hope for. It's these events that make you wonder how much more your willing to endure. For you and your beloved pups.

I absolutely love these pups. I love my mom and dad pups. I love the babies who we lovingly bring into this world and place in the most caring of homes. I love to watch them grow and play and learn and become wonderful companions. I love the joy my families have when they bring one of our pups into their lives. My yorkie family grows and expands with each pup. It's truly beautiful.

However, times like what we are experiencing now means I need to figure out our future. I'm not sure where our furture is headed but there's time to figure that out later. For now, we will keep trudging forward. I have a mom and baby that must be given the utmost care if they are to survive. So, we continue, day by day, moment by moment to do the best we can.

*Pictures of our mamma Capt'n and all her babies, both loved and lost.

15/04/2025

Here's a little Tax Day hijinks!!
If only we could claim our dogs this way?!!

08/04/2025

A shout out to my hubby and daughter! It's been a long, difficult and emotionally draining week. There is so much going on and I'm spread too thin. It's been a week of no sleep & exhaustion as I work to feed new babies, feed the doggies, clean up, be on puppy watch for a different litter, help a neighbor and in all that mess, find time to do things like feed myself or rest.

My husband and daughter have stepped up to help when when things felt most bleak, when my body ached from not resting and when I just needed an extra helping hand. Even if that was a 3am feeding or just watching the new babies so I could rest for a few hours. Thank you for helping when you saw I needed extra support. Thank you for helping, even though this isn't your passion. I’m very blessed. Thank you, my family.

*Osiris from our Egypt Litter

06/04/2025

Today was gotcha day for our super special guy Buddy (Kal-El) Congratulations Will. May you both help each other's hearts heal. I wish you a lifetime of love and companionship.

*I know he looks unsure, but within a short time in his new home he was sleeping on his new dad's shoulder.

04/04/2025

Some days, you wonder why you chose to do this to yourself. Like life wasn't hard enough on its own.

03/04/2025

As promised, here are some pics of Capt'n & Yumiko's babies born yesterday April 1st. This is our "E" Litter, Names undecided.

If you saw our post yesterday, you'll notice these babies are decidedly not all white pups. Happy April Fools 🙃 Thanks for playing along.

31/03/2025

Still on puppy watch. Hoping for April 1st babies 😬🐾

Messy hair will be refreshed and wrapped, but for now, this mama to be can rest.