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01-14-2006, 08:30 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: US
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| Touchy about Yorkie's Weight Is it just me or are people (I mean outside this group), touchy about a yorkie's weight. People with smaller yorkies always tell me my 6,5lb-er looks bigger than a standard yorkie. And then today I met somebody with a yorkie that was about twice as big as Trixie and she was talking to me about how she hated that yorkies were bred as small as mine What is up with that?
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01-14-2006, 08:34 PM | #2 |
Love my Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Port Richey, Florida
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| People are NUTS, Go with the flow!! WHatever they say just say YES, I agree and then turn and run!!
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01-14-2006, 08:53 PM | #3 | |
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01-14-2006, 09:12 PM | #4 |
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| I am not sure if it's a fetish towards smaller dogs in general or that many people truly emphasize towards the size of Yorkies. But, yes size does seem to be a top subject in conversation regarding Yorkies. Why this is I am not sure??
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01-14-2006, 09:22 PM | #5 |
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| That happens to me every time, infact yesterday I had that happen to me. What people have to say I really don't give a hay stack about. I am proud of my girl and I love her just the way she is. She is just the perfect size in my eyes. |
01-14-2006, 09:42 PM | #6 |
Learn Yorkie CPR! Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New Jersey
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| Teacup :-) People always ask me, "How cute, is she a teacup?" They ask me this b/c she's still a puppy, so she's small (well, 5.4lbs now at 4 months!). Anyway, I don't feel like explaining the whole T-cup story in the pet store so I say, "no, a standard Yorkie. She should be around 7lbs." Sometimes they say, "oh" like they're sorry I got such a 'big' Yorkie! LOL I think nowadays when uneducated people think "Yorkie," they assosiate it with T-cup. It's a shame, but it's true.
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01-14-2006, 09:53 PM | #7 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gilbert, Arizona
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| I don't care what anyone thinks of Teddy. He is a big little guy weighing in at around 10 pounds. When someone says he is big I just say "yep, he sure is and I love every ounce of him"
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01-14-2006, 09:54 PM | #8 |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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| I was going to write EXACTLY what Karen wrote -- people are CRAZY. I have a supermodel Yorkie w/ longer than "normal" legs. He's perfect to me and he's 8.5lbs. If someone makes a deragatory comment about his size and their Yorkie is small or tiny I usually say something catty about their "hamster" or "guinea pig". No offense to those w/ tinies, but I sometimes feel like giving a good taste of their own medicine so they can see how it feels.
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01-14-2006, 10:07 PM | #9 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beaumont, TX
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| People can be rude. My three are all different weights. Maddie is my big girl around 10lbs, Rudy is around 7lbs and Polly is less than 3lbs. When I take all three out people all ways ask if Polly is there baby. I just tell then yorkies come in all different sizes just like people. When I just had Maddie I was at Petmart and this man was so rude about Maddie being bigger, he realy pissed me off till I realized he was senile ball head old man. ha!
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01-14-2006, 10:14 PM | #10 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: none
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| YES! When Brandy was about 3 months old some lady in Petsmart was asking me questions about her. Then she said, "Wow, isn't she kind of BIG for a yorkie?" I was like "She's only 2 lbs!!" I couldn't believe the nerve. I told her that she'll end up being WITHIN the standard of around 5 lbs or so. I just don't like how people are acting like smaller is better!!! Sorry, but personally I wouldn't want such a breakable dog. But big, small, what does it matter as long as the owner is happy with their dog? |
01-14-2006, 10:54 PM | #11 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Illinois
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| I agree yorkies come in all different sizes. But one thing they all have in common is that there the best babies around. What great personalities they all have.
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01-14-2006, 11:47 PM | #12 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA
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| Just explain to these people that Yorkie's come in many different sizes. We all know they do -- might as well let everyone else in on it! Carol Jean |
01-15-2006, 02:19 AM | #13 |
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| I just have to remind myself that they are the uneducated ones, and try not to get too pissed off. I have people question the breed of my dog all the time, and I just have to tell them that Yorkies, like any other thing in life, come in all different sizes. I honestly dont think *most* people realize that when they question the size of our dogs, that we take it personal. I just really dislike how every time I come across another Yorkie owner, they always ask me her weight, like that defines our dogs.
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01-15-2006, 04:41 AM | #14 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | I LOVE All Sized yorkies - what I DO have a problem with is breeding tinies or someone not experienced looking for the absolute smallest yorkie they can find...Yorkies are such a small breed to begin with.... HAVING a tiny or a larger size yorkie is A-OK with me - I really don't pay attention to anyones yorkie size because I just think they're all precious - big AND small....
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01-15-2006, 05:13 AM | #15 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Indianapolis Indiana
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| People make all kinds of comments based on common lack of knowledge. Yorkies caome in all weight ranges from little ones to big ones. We love them all regardless- just like ytou love your children. I have one who is 6'4 all most 6' 5 at 16 and a daughter who is 5'4. The standard according to our breed states 7 pounds and under. This is like looking at the schedule your doctor has which states a male/female a certain age/body build and height should weigh this amount. Some of us will fit that measurement others will not. Fact of life nothing more- it does not make us worth any more or less as a individual. The same for our yorkies- they are all still yorkies and the loves of our life. |
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