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Originally Posted by Pammyb  If you have an unusually large Yorkie like15 lbs. or so does that mean he has been poorly bred??  |
There is so many breeds that make up the yorkshire terrier that size and weight is somewhat unpredictable. Any yorkie breeder that can guarantee a yorkies size is fooling thereself. About the only thing we can gurantee is the Yorkie will make a liar out of us everytime. The best we can do is breed for standard, breed for type, health and temperament. Do we get it every time?, no. You can litter mates one small, another well within the standard and another larger.....It happens. It's all how the genetics mesh together. We breed two dogs once and produce just what we're looking for, we breed the same two dogs the next go around and a completely different litter emerges.
Just because your boy is oversized does not make him poorly bred.