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Originally Posted by lilgidget  Just curious -- what is the adult weight of a "teacup" yorkie? |
Found out my first Yorkie, Scotty, just under 3 lbs. when grown, bought from an old couple who occasionally bred their female;,\ and my Jilly, an extremely small-born runt whelped, to normal-size Yorkie pair from line of standard-sized Yorkies, slightly over 3 lbs. when grown, both qualified as the so-called teacup. These days I think that is considered large for a teacup.
In shopping for Yorkie breeders 5 years after Scotty died, I had read a local newpaper article about a lady who bred very small Yorkshire Terrier dogs in a nearby town and went to see them as I had only learned that Scotty was too tiny for for the Standard but wanted another Scotty type dog, still ignorant of what teacup breeding was all about. Not one of her breeding dams or studs was over 2 - 3 lbs.! Could not believe their tiny sizes, bug eyes, pointy chests, foreshortened legs, long, uneven backs and all of the dams, studs, puppies for sale she brought to show acted extremely fearful, as if never socialized or maybe rarely out of their cages. They dashed from under one piece of furniture to the next the entire time they were in the room, not one came when called by the breeder, who was all business. She acted as if she'd done all of this a thousand times before.
She casually explained she only kept the tiniest out of litters for breeders and bred them to one another, then automatically quoted range of new-car prices for her puppies, tiniest most expensive, etc., the amount/date of deposit required to hold which picking order potential buyers could ensure, accepted cash only, asked me to spell my name for a legal pad she was about to write on,having never asked me if I had any questions or had any questions about my dog-owning experience/history, home situation, yard/fence, nearest vet, where the puppy would spend most of its day, etc. She acted as if she could care less about the ultimate welfare of any of her puppies & just assumed I was a ready-made buyer. I couldn't get away fast enough.