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" (at least that it what I read on the breed history??)... and they are big dogs ... This is more of a theory or hypothesis than anything else because I don't have any factual information to back it up... just stuff that I have heard before.
Clyde is a larger Yorkshire terrier at 12.5 lbs, and at the moment Dexter weighs 9 lbs. Some Yorkies are just larger while others are tiny little things! All very cute, though. |