Most breeds get bathed only when at the groomer - that can be every six weeks or longer. Because yorkie hair is different from most doggie fur, it tends to get greasy and stinky pretty fast.
I bathe Lucy every week. We're having a heat wave now, so I bathe her more frequently.
I think the bathing ritual for yorkies and other small breeds is a fairly recent phenomenon. When I had a yorkie in the late 1980s, he wasn't bathed nearly as much. After the movie "legally blond" and popularity of 'pocket book pets', people began to spruce up their little guys/gals more frequently.
Tracey |