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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  Small yorkies do in fact come thru shelters and rescues. In my few years of volunteering I have had two smaller than average. Scrappy was almost 4 lbs and came in as a stray in a San Diego shelter. Lily was an owner surrender and was also almost 4 lbs. Now I have Toto who is "bigger" at 6 lbs, almost an owner surrender, who has long silky hair, big round eyes (I call them Spongebob eyes) and perfectly healthy. |
Keep in mind I live a few hours from Lancaster PA, so a lot of dogs around here are from puppy mills. Most of the yorkies I see are well over 10lbs and don't look like yorkies. Or they're very tiny and look very sickly.
On the rescue sites for my area most of the yorkies were 10-15lbs, 7 years or older, and not the best looking. I said not all rescues are like that, but that's what I saw. My area doesn't have tons of small dogs for adoption.
I was looking for a yorkie under 3 years old, 5-7lbs, and actually looks like a yorkie.