Rosemary Traettino of Ocean Township, N.J., has a Yorkshire terrier, that is now 14 years old and also weighs 14 pounds -- much larger than the typical yorkie. But she wanted to be sure her second dog was smaller. Plus, she fell in love with the calm personality of her neighbor's shih tzu.
"I said, 'Gee if I could get a yorkie with the personality of a shih tzu, that would be perfect,'" she says.
This irritates me!!! My friend has 3 shih tzus who crazy hyper, and bark non stop when they quit snorting long enough. Now i do love them they are the cutest little things but i do believe from what i have seen my yorkie and others around are much calmer then they seem to be, and love people and attention, and yes there are some that are bigger than others *just like ppl they can come in all dif. sizes* but shih tzus seem to be larger so her reasoning for wanting this mixed breed just doesnt make since to me. ALSO, messing with genetics doesnt always get you the best traits of both dogs, you can get the worst traits as well so i really dont see the purpose in this. Then selling them for so much money, because they came from pure pred parents but its not purebred techinically, you dont know what can happen when crossing genes, the possibilities are endless, this just disgusts me. SORRY HAD TO GET MY RANTING OUT, THIS TOPIC ALWAYS IRRITATES ME.
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