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Originally Posted by sashajade i think its kind of a country thing, in the uk i would say most people when looking for a yorkie want a healthy pup that is happy playful and loving and are not that bothered about the size of it, if it has floppy ears or not correct colouring so what if it loves you and you love it, a yorkie is not just about what it looks like its also about the personality of the breed. i would bet most people on here do not have a breed standard yorkie, its ears wont be right, its colour not perfect, its coat not good enough, its hind legs to long, there are so many other things than just the weight, but for some reason most people i see on here talking about breed standard dont worry that there dog has these other things wrong its just the size they worry about. and imo the breed standard is wrong and out of date and should be changed.  |
All Yorkies, regardless of size, are precious pets. I have had both the large & the small, I guess what I haven't had is the middle.
My first Yorkie was about 10# and I loved him to death but I would never have considered not having him neutered. I feel like I would have been very unfair to whoever got pups sired by him thinking they would be less than 7#. Although, as I said, I loved him to death and was devastated when he died, I was disappointed when I first began to realize that his ears would never stand and 7# passed us by pretty quickly. I felt like the breeder had lied to me. I feel like when someone sells a Yorkshire Terrier pup, the buyer should be able to expect it to be under 7# and perky ears. I know most of them will not be show quality but there should be some basic traits you could expect such as size, color, standing ears, roughly a square body. I'm just afraid that the more we continue to breed dogs that are far from the standard, the less a Yorkie will continue to look like a Yorkie.
If there is enough of a demand for a larger Yorkie, perhaps there could be a different designation but I really believe that most people breed bigger Yorkies because that is what they have and not what they want. Frequently they try to find a smaller stud hoping they will get smaller pups and then the buyers are again misled and perhaps, as I was, disappointed because let's face it, once that little pup is in your house, he's not going anywhere even if he grows to be the size of a great dane. They steal our hearts just that fast.