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Originally Posted by Brooklynn  Depends on the pedigrees and what they will throw. My Radar is up on leg but he's just right at 6 pounds fined boned and was bred to my champion bitch that was 5 1/2 pounds short on leg, cobby body and she threw a small boned 5 pound bitch and then a bigger boned 7 1/2 pound bitch so somewhere in his or her pedigree she had a larger yorkie that was bred within her lines and both parents of the puppies are great representive of the breed and bred with quality! Both the sire and dam of these puppies went on to be #5 in the US in 08 and then the bitch was the #1 yorkie bitch in breed in 05 so the answer to your question is a good show quality yorkie can throw a yorkie on the larger size 
Donna Bird |
I think there is a
huge difference in a
7.5 pound Yorkie and a
15 pound Yorkie. One is easily seen as slightly over standard. But it is hard for me to believe a 15 pound dog is merely a throwback to over a hundred years ago when larger dogs were bred to develop the Yorkshire terrier. I think the chances are very high that they have been breeding over-standard dogs recently (in the last 5 generations at minimum) to wind up with a 15 pounder today. To me, that would not be the best of breeding practices.
But since the dog is a rescue -- I would just say --
all the more to love. One would not breed a rescue of unknown heritage anway, so no problem.