I need to vent...I haven't been feeling well for a couple weeks (migraines and a sinus thing), but finally last night it cooled down a bit from the 95 degree weather we've been having, and I felt a little better too, so I decided to take Emma and Milli for a walk. So, we head out, and after about 10 minutes out, we see two women talking in a neighbor's front yard. As always, they say "ooooh, yorkies, can I see them," etc. And of course, Milli is already going right up to them because she can't resist the baby voice, while Emma being shy and snotty
is trying to hang back with me (but not really, since they were on a coupler).
One lady said that she had a yorkie a few years ago, and that she really loved yorkies. I "introduced" Emma and Milli, and I expected the conversation to go in the normal direction (how old are they, are they siblings, blah blah as usual), but it took a turn.
She commented on their size, saying that her yorkies was "much MUCH smaller", to which I answered "oh really? Well, these guys fit right in the size range-Emma, the larger one is about 6 pounds, and Milli is about 4. Yorkies are supposed to be between 4 and 7 pounds, but some stay smaller and some are larger. I love them both for their personalities!" trying to make the conversation better. But she pressed on-and had the nerve to ask me "They just seem big to me, and they're SO dark on their bodies. Are you SURE they're pure yorkies?" I answered that they were, and that I had seen their parents, and that both of them were indeed pure yorkie. I tried again to turn it to a positive/funny conversation so we could get out of there, and babbled about how they definitely act like yorkies-chasing things, wanting to be pampered, and how they are impossible to potty train, but she wouldn't let it go. She told me that maybe I should check into that, to see if they were really purebred, because she thought my breeder switched one of their parents, and told me they were purebred when in reality the daddy was not!
I couldn't believe this! I should have told her they didn't have the same parents, or told her to stay out of my business or something, but instead, I just said that we had to go, and we went home. That lady totally ruined our walk
I didn't even want to continue on with them last night after talking to her, for fear of running into some other idiot I didn't have patience for!
I know my dogs are both pure yorkie, and I would love them both the same even if they weren't. I'm not questioning that, but WHY OH WHY do people have the nerve to tell others stuff like that, and why do they care?!? It baffles me!