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Originally Posted by BLowry  I'm certainly no expert on weight but, to me, it sounds like she will be around 4-5lb range...And there is NO such thing as a tea cup or tiny tea cup...these are just words BYB's and mills use to jack the prices up on puppies...This is a toy breed. Their weight should be between 5 and 7 lbs,...correct me if I am wrong... breeders... |
The AKC Yorkshire Terrier description states between 3-7 lbs for a show animal. This man made breed was made up of dogs that were up to 16-18 lbs and we've bred them down smaller. There will be some smaller and some larger than the standard, all still purebred. Some people will use the term t-cup and although descriptive of a supposed size there is not this term used in the standard. Unfortunately, some breeders will charge extreme prices for what they say will be tiny dogs but they grow bigger than expected. If a breeder keeps a puppy for 6-7 months they have a better than average chance of being right on the size. If a breeder sells a puppy at 6-10 weeks it's highly likely they may be wrong on the guess. It's also more than just the parents DNA but also their grand-parents and their parents and so forth. I've found often the genetics skip a generation and you will get offspring that take after the grand-sire/dam. The other thing is if a breeder has been breeding a line for a while (mine is 6 generations so far) they will have a better idea of how their liine grows out. Mine tends to grow fast and finish growing by 6 months. I have a friend who's line grows slow and doesn't finish until they are over a year.
Sorry this got so long.