[yorkieusa]

Originally Posted by mommyofsophie

Thanks for clarifying. :-) I confess that I sometimes get frustrated at how quickly some people are to jump to the lecture about smaller Yorkies. I apologize if I misunderstood people's messages in this thread.

I'm regularly stopped by strangers and asked if Sophie is a "tea cup," and I do explain that there's no such thing-- that "tea cup" is a marketing ploy used by unscrupulous breeders. That unethical breeders will breed dogs to be smaller than is healthy just so they can label the pups as "tea cup" and charge exorbitant prices.

However... I also think sometimes some people on YT can be a little quick to judge those of us with tiny dogs, assuming that we made a conscious choice to buy little ones, when really some of us just have dogs that surprised us by not growing up to be 5-7+ lbs. My mom's Yorkie is 11 lbs., not fat, just a big, healthy guy. The funny thing is that she gets stopped by people, too... only they tell her that there's no way her dog can be a full-blooded Yorkie because "he's too big."

Sometimes you just can't win for losing.