I sure have a story about when we got Sweetie. Four years ago my husband saw an add in the "IWANNA" for a female yorkie, 6 mos. old, 2.5 lbs - $600. He called and found the people had purchased her from a breeder and when they took her to the vet they told them she was too small to breed - so they were selling her. We met them at a McDonalds and we ended up trading a German Rueger rifle for her. Got the papers and called her breeder - she had been sold 3 weeks earlier at 3.5 lbs. and with the promise that they wouldn't breed her. She had lost a pound in 3 weeks - we suspect they kept her in a crate except to feed her (from their conversations). We had her spayed and she is now a healthy 6.2 lbs. If we had known she would be such a nice size we wouldn't have had her spayed. While we knew what to look for in a yorkie (teeth, straight back, etc.) we really lucked out getting such a fine pet.
Can you imagine if the police had pulled up at McDonalds on a rainy Tuesday night and we were showing guns in the back of our Honda hatchback?
In general yorkie puppies run around $1200 here now. |