[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by airplane

I actually disagree on your opinion about a yorkie face or colouring. I've come to understand that yorkies, and I am speaking about purebred yorkies, as having a great amount of variance in their looks, even amongst show dog yorkies. I've seen yorkies with more of a pointed foxy type of look due to the shape and way their muzzle is, some with a flatter and wider type of muzzle, wide-set eyes, not so wide-set eyes, squarish type of head, more rounded head, large eyes, small eyes, very down face, some not so down face, dark colouring, light colouring, pointed ears, more rounded ears, etc. etc. I just spent the weekend at a dog show, and it was quite amazing to see how different yorkies can be.

I have a boy who many people ask me what he's mixed with because he's so different than the mental schema that people have of what a yorkie looks like. People a bit more familiar with breeding and genetics tell me he's a throwback, and he may very well be considering how different he is than his parents and littermates as well as the dogs in his pedigree.


I guess the point I'm making is that there isn't one type of yorkie face or colouring.

That's not really what she meant she was saying teacup and toy in a later post. There still is not multiple types of yorkies they just have different traits. I can not speak for the show world but in the pet world there are yorkies that look very different from poor breeding and not breeding yorkies that look like yorkies.