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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  no, people (us YTers) get mad when BREEDERS call them teacups and sell them for more money, and in this case, worse yet, "teaspoon". What's next, "eyedropper"? I mean really? Most of these breeders who are doing this are also selling their pups too young, eg, saying they are 8-12 wks when they are only 5-6 wks. (Worse yet, what I heard today, 4 weeks!!)
Standard for yorkies is anything under 7 lbs. Just b/c they are less than 3 lbs doesn't make them teacup, not officially, anyway. |
i agree the price is crazy and yes there are breeders selling 8 week old puppies as a teacup and its messed up. so many bad people out there but yorkies used to weigh about thirty pounds way back in the day and as the need for working dogs decreased, the demand for small dogs increased so The Yorkshire Terrier became increasingly smaller and smaller. so people back then were breeding small dogs with small dogs to get small dogs like people are doing today. Just one hundred years after the original breeder of yorkies died the breed standard listed the weight of a Yorkie to be "no more than seven pounds". now in are time The current trend is to breed them even smaller. Who knows how small the Yorkshire Terrier will be by 2065? teacup, micro teacup ,teaspoon are ways people describe their size and i think the reason they are so expensive is first people are willing to pay it and second breeding such a small dog is risky the female probably had a lot of health care throughout the pregnancy and maybe even had to of had a c section and then to top that off they don't even have that many puppies like 1-3 so that all affects the price of the small dog everyone wants. but yorkies came a long way and getting a yorkie down from 30 to 7 pounds is crazy so i guess its crazy to want to make them even smaller. but its been done and its now a new era of even wanting a smaller dog. all breeds are going to change with time and there will be new breeds to come. like the so called designer breeds akc will begin to recognize some of them in time.