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Originally Posted by kaymo I have several books on yorkies and their breed history. In one of them (I'm going to post the book's title and author as soon as I'm done here!) the author states that contrary to popular opinion (and several websites) the original yorkshire terriers that were larger than today's standard weighed about 10 to 12 lbs maximum. It goes on to state the physiological reason why they weren't or couldn't be close to 20 lbs as many believe. Since they were bred as ratters they had to be small enough to get down in the rat holes. The book also says there were many weighing under 5 lbs, hence the reason why show groups were divided into 2 groups for yorkies over 5 lbs and under 5 lbs. |
im talking about when they were first bred,as at first they were not called yorkshire terriers and that was before the kennel club called them yorkshire terriers. yes they were bred down in size to fit down rat holes but at first they were used to kill the rats running around in the mines in yorkshire they first came from scotland with the men who got jobs in yorkshire down the mines.
ive seen pictures of the first kind of yorkies and they are very large.