Decision : to get an older dog or not ?

toedtoes wrote:

RoadXYZ wrote:
It has been over 16 months since Petunia the Chi went to the Rainbow Bridge ... and looking at choices of mini-schnauzer (sp?) or Yorkie size and somewhere in the 2-4 yr range ...

Are you asking about the mini-schnauzer or the yorkie? Or getting a dog in the 2-4 year range? Or the general should we get an older dog?
Older dogs are great. Older rescued dogs are even greater. Having done rescue work for years, I'll tell you that an older dog KNOWS that you have rescued him/her and saved his/her life.

Know that any dog has its issues .. but wondering how at our age how can we 'handle' a larger dog which needs assistance, whereby is a smaller dog like a Yorkie better .. or ? glad to get the responses about checking out those older dogs in Rescue Groups ... will continue to listen/read on with responses ... thank you