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Originally Posted by kjcmsw  Maybe I looked at the wrong site, but they claim not to breed females under 5 pounds and they note the terms used "teacup/teaspoon" is descriptive only (which is all it ever was...they could have said "small/extra small" - splitting hairs).
The male who they claim is so small looks pretty good to me. I'm thinking I may not have went to the site everyone is referring to, but I googled "teaspoon yorkies"
I"ll look at it again and see what I missed.
Kendra |
No I think you are looking at the right site but she ACTUALLY says MOST of her breeding females are over 5 pounds and then she states that she does not breed females under 3.4 pounds.
No respectable breeder use terms like teacup and teaspoon. She uses the size as her MAIN sales tool. She uses the Yorkie growth chart as a sales ploy instead of the guess-timate that it really is. Every puppy has a projected weight listed for it. There is no way you can tell how much all of these 6 week - 5 month old pups will weigh. They could easily have a growth spurt and be well over projections. The importance being put on size is what is the biggest red flag. Look at how many times you find the words teacup and teaspoon on a page! Crazy! And speaking of 6 week old pups -- I think she is selling them at that age. There is nothing on there that I saw about them being available in the future -- they are for sale now!
The male is cute, but if you understand the Yorkshire standard, you can easily see he in no way meets it. His little fox-like face is not to standard, his reddish coloring while pretty is not to standard, his hair does not look like it lays like silky hair to me in the one picture where you can see more of his side. He has short, cobby legs -- something she is using as a sales benefit but which is NOT in yorkie standard. His proportions are off. You don't just look for a male that will help provide tiny puppies -- you also want the male AND female to be the best reprsentatives of the breed you can find. You can take a dog with a small deviation from standard and try to find a complimentary mate to help compensate for the shortcoming. My male (in my profile pic) had larger ears than I thought he should (although he seems to keep growing into them better) so I got a female with tiny ears, I thought were perfect. All the pups had perfect ears. But when a male is as far off the standard as this one is -- there is no complimentary female that can compensate for all that. He's not the only one either -- they just do not look like breeding Yorkies to me. I think any of the show folks or the ethical breeders here will agree.