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Originally Posted by bjh  Attached is a picture of a champion silky terrier. They generally are bigger than a yorkie and their head is shaped different. I have seen many yorkies that do resemble the silky and I have seen a few silkies that resemble yorkies. It just depends on how well they are bred. |
Thank you for sharing that picture, I've looked a tiny bit at silky terrier pic's to see if I would be able to tell the difference and never really could spot it out as well as i can with that picture. Now I feel like I can SEE the difference in the head/snout
As far as people telling them their yorkies are a silky, I would be willing to wager that the majority of them are meaning coat type not breed type. Then general population, even animal lovers don't really have much knowledge on different breeds of dogs. I don't think that the YT community is filled with "common" animal lovers and a very high majority of us know quite a lot if not almost all there is to know about the Yorkshire terrier breed... and probably at least every other breed that each individual has ever owned that posts on this board. I myself know quite a bit about Labs, yorkies, boston terriers... other breeds.. not so much. And no one that I know personally that has animals, and are very very good animal caretakers knows much about the dog breed that they have. They may have researched if it was the right type of dog for them but thats about as far as it goes.