Although the written standard is not to exceed eight pounds it is true that many full blown yorkies do not fall within that standard. Silky terriers look a lot like yorkies for example but are larger and truly if there is not a long term closed pooled paper record of a dogs lineage, there could always be something slipped in our dogs history that influenced the gene pool down the line. He is a handsome fellow and I bet he is as sweet as they come
