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Originally Posted by nanahas3  I guess that would be the only way for you to know 100% but she looks like a yorkie to me. Doesnt look anything like the Silky's I know.  I always felt like the name Silky was a misnomer for them because their hair feels very very course to the touch also. |
Let me say first that I don't really care what she is. She is my dog and I love her (but not so much the spitty toy she is pressing onto my foot at the moment
). And I have never
seen a Silky that I am aware of.
It is just that this is a common thread topic and when I read the AKC Silky Terrier description it really seems to describe my dog. Yorkies, because they are so popular and expensive are over bred without regard to the breed standard much of the time. I think at least half of us have dogs that don't fit the breed standard.
When there is another breed that is so close in appearance to the Yorkshire Terrier how do we really know?
The differences in the standards of the two breeds also seem to be the common ways that our Yorkies stray from the breed standard. (My dog: bigger, longer snout and longer body) That was my point.