Clyde is 12.5 pounds right now and weighed 13.5 pounds at his heaviest weight (but 12.5 pounds was the healthiest weight for him to be, he had gotten a little tubby a little while after getting neutered but he is back in shape now).
Dexter weighs 5-6 pounds right now, and he is only a four month old puppy. He weighs the same amount that Clyde weighed at his age. I have a feeling Dexter will weigh somewhere around Clyde's weight (his parents were only five and eight pounds). Dexter is AKC and supposedly from a champion line, but I have never looked into it.
I read somewhere once that Yorkshire terriers used to be heavier set dogs (twenty-pounds) before people started breeding them for smaller sizes and then the breed standard was set.... I don't know if this is particularly true BUT if you think about it one of the dogs used to create the Yorkshire terrier was the Airedale or "waterside terrier" ... and they are big dogs ... and that is why larger Yorkshire terriers will appear ... I do not know if this is true. I could be saying this and being totally INCORRECT .... but I'm just thinking that because of this fact it would make sense that larger Yorkshire terriers are here. This is more of a theory or hypothesis than anything else. |