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Originally Posted by Sugar's Mom  i got him at twelve weeks because I saw his pedigree and all his ancestors and went wild over it and he was the prettiest "little" puppy ever. I was very naive back then Tina. I hope I have learned a lot since then. |
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All go through the learning curve. I remember mine. Sometimes you can get all the advice in the world, but experience is the best lesson. I am still learning and this is after being around yorkies for almost 30 years. Yikes!
Who was it ??- one of the top yorkies, winner of multiple Best In Shows - his breeder almost or did sell him as a pet and later the owner brought him back for a view and the breeder said - let's show him. She sure did not know he would turn out so nice. (I forget the exact story, but went something like this. Does anyone else remember who the dog was?)
Yep, Dee 12 weeks is way too early to tell. We have hopes at this age, but so much can go wrong. I am still looking at yorkies at even 1 to 1.5 years and still hoping and keeping fingers crossed. Yorkies are one of the hardest breeds to predict. I am getting pretty good at this, but it is more less a feeling and not so much anything else. I have one female I will be holding on to because of her pedigree, outgoing personality, and her all together package (gait, looks, structure, etc..). I like everything about her, but her size. She is just one year now and the sire's breeder adviced me to wait till she was 2 years old to see if she could make size. So still hoping and keeping fingers crossed. She is up to just about 4 pounds now. So we are slowly gettting there.
I just have my doubts, but the sire's breeder knows her line and she is an expert. She says she has had some really surprise her and came through in the end.
T.