[yorkietalkjilly]

Teddy is such a little dolbaby!!!!! And he looks like one of the very many Yorkie "looks" we see in the breed, especially the last 20 years or so. Maybe there were always so many variations and I just wasn't aware of it as Yorkies used to be pretty rare here until about 20 years ago but at first, they mostly seemed to all look more alike than they do now. I had never seen any teapot Yorkies as far as I know until I joined YT and never any chocolates or parti's or blonde/white ones. The ones I ran across early on were mostly tan and silver/blue/gray and all pretty much 3 - 7 pounds. And I went all over the Metroplex and beyond for looking at Yorkies before getting Jilly.

If you Google Image Yorkie and Yorkshire Terrier and just look at all the different Yorkie looks from people's pictures and just keep on asking for more images at the bottom of the page, you can see how many looks there are for Yorkies these days. I don't remember there being that much variety in the looks and sizes when I first got my Scotty and then Jilly. And now, some Yorkie change so much through his or her lifetime depending on their hair color stage and their state of grooming that sometimes they don't even look like the same dog 4 years later.

My Tibbe has a bit of a cottony coat that causes him to look fluffy and messy though it rarely ever has mats but the color changes of his head, face and body hair have been amazing to watch over the years. When I first got him at age 9 mos., his head was tan with some black between his eyes and his body all black. As he got older, he was almost white-headed for a time and he lost the black between his eyes and his body began to turn blue then gray, which kept lightening in tone. Now, every summer, his body hair is bleached by the sun to very light blonde-to-white-looking half way to the ends with dark blue roots while his head and face, now free of all black, stays totally clear tan/blonde and never bleaches out lighter at all, even on top.

My late Scotty and Jilly, who had harder, silkier coats, didn't have such drastic color changes as Tibbe though both did have periods of almost white heads and Jilly had a bit of black between her eyes for a time before each head and face turned totally clear tan, though Jilly's was more of a blonde shade later in life.