[sashajade]

also another post talks about why yorkies are all so different well i guess its just like when a person has a baby with red hair and no one in the family has it but if they look way back in to there family they find a great great great grandfather had red hair so thats where it came from. so its the same with yorkies they started off big then breeders bred 2 runts together and the yorkie got smaller and smaller but every now and again a larger pup will pop up. the same with the colour of the yorkie even if you breed two with black hair you might get one pup with silver hair. people are talking about how to keep the breed standard but the only way that can be done is to only breed one size yorkie one colour yorkie from now on and any yorkies not fitting the breed standard are fixed so after years and years of doing this you end up with only the breed standard,which wont be done. imo the breed standard is not in keeping with the true original yorkie anyway as they were a lot larger. some breeders only cared about making money and found a smaller yorkie made more money so they bred the runts together (with health problems) just to make more money with no thought to what heath problems would follow.maybe the breed standard should change back to 2 weights one for small one for large so theres no more of this your yorkies not a good yorkie as its over 7 pounds.all weights should be allowed to be showed imo