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Originally Posted by puppymom  I've heard that there are larger Yorkies to be found in shelters because the owners thought they were buying a "teacup" but their puppy grew larger than they wanted so they just got rid of them (shallow people!). I myself didn't find any Yorkies in a shelter when I was looking for one, but I live in a rural area, the shelters here get a lot of lab mixes. |
I have put puppies on PuppyFind and I often look at the puppies for sale and I have noticed that some breeders list their puppies as Tea-cups but what they are doing is listing the
puppies as tea-cups, not what their guesses of what their adult sizes will be. That makes me mad because people think they are getting a tiny dog but it will grow up to be over 4 lbs. Usually, over 8 lbs. That is bad for all of us who breed for the love of the dogs. After 6 years of breeding Yorkies I can usually tell by the listed sizes and ages that the puppies won't be the "tea-cups" that they have been advertised as.
I have all sizes, I breed dogs that produce tinies and I have 11 pounders to breed for bigger dogs for people who have small children but want the prestige of owning a Yorkie. I never lie to people about the predicted sizes and I aways tell them that there is a chance that the dog could be bigger or smaller than predicted but it is my best guess according to the lines I have and my experience with them.
My first Yorkie, Pirogue, weighed 2.10 lbs when I got him at 8 weeks old. I didn't know he was huge. He seemed small to me and I was in love. He grew and grew and grew but the breeder never lied to me, I just didn't know the right questions to ask. He is a throwback, he is bigger than his parents who were both about 8 lbs. I bought a female to breed him to, she was older than him by 6 months. By the time he was big enough to breed, he was too big for her. By that time I had already bought a 2nd female and he was much to big for her. I went searching for another male and found one, Mr. Big, who was about 6 weeks old when I found him. I think, I don't remember off hand, that he was about 1 1/2 lbs when I brought him home at 11 weeks.
It took me 2 years to find a female big enough to breed to Pirogue, they both weigh over 11 lbs on a good day. I don't breed them much because most people who come here only want tiny girls. I don't get many of those. LOL Mostly, I have VERY good luck getting boys. When I get girls, they tend to be too small for breeding. I shouldn't have that kind of "problem" anymore, the male that produced those females died. I do miss him. Sylvia