What made you

[chattiesmom]

Oh boy, I'm going to really date myself too and give you guys a good laugh in the process. Who remembers Sonny and Cher when they WERE Sonny and Cher? Well I was in love with them as a teen .... crooning to each other like silly love birds -- You've got me Babe.....

Skip forward grown woman, kids in school, husband works a lot - I wanted a small dog with long beautiful straight hair..... and I loved terriers. After doing a lot of research on Yorkies, I was sold..... and will be forever more

[celstu1]

wow! Diggy! She is gorgeous!!

I wanted a female Shih Tzu sooo bad! I read they had 'hair' and my old boss had one and she was soooo cute and playful! So I talked about them FOREVER and my mom and her hubby bought one. She is a little BEATCH!!! HAHA so I decided I didnt want a shih tzu anymore cuz my mom has one and I didn't want a FEMALE at all! HAHA SO I found a couple more breeds that had hair and I thought the Yorkies were the CUTEST breed EVER.. those soulful eyes and up ears. The long shiny coats... wow! Little did i know their coats were soo much work that I keep them in a SHORT puppy cut their whole lives so far! HAHA

I am so glad I stumbled upon this breed!

[chattiesmom]

Paula - your Bella lives up to her name - Beautiful! I just can't imagine her ever being anything but a beauty. Those two pictures are absolutely beautiful - i love the play with the light and shadows.

[LoveMyJake]

I have always loved yorkies and wanted one most of my life. After my kids all grew up and moved out, I decided I was getting my little yorkie. My husband wanted a big dog. We got Jake instead, and now we have two. My husband, who never liked smaller dogs, is now just as in love with the boys as I am! Now I'd like to eventually get a girl.

Bella is beautiful!

[Potter]

Wow so many different stories of how people end up with Yorkies and each is unique. For me, I grew up with Japanese Spitz and Shih Tzus. Knew nothing about Yorkies until 2 years ago. I didn't have friends when I first came, felt very lonely and hubby was very busy so he decided to get me a dog. He originally wanted a big dog but our small living space wouldn't allow one. It was either a Husky or a Yorkie for him because his friend had a Yorkie and it was full of spunk and my hubby loves that. I myself wanted a small white dog instead and was thinking of Maltese and Westies or Pekingese but Pekingese shed and my nose is sensitive so my option was Maltese or Westies. That was until we saw an ad and the breeder have both Maltese and Yorkie so we went to see and the rest is history

[KathyinCali]

I've always had German Shephards an though they will always remain my first love I wanted a dog that could travel with me as I travel often for business and pleasure. My girlfriends tried to talk me in to a Maltese but then I met my now breeder quite accidentally and after speaking with him several times he invited me over to visit and that was that - I fell in love with Lucy. She stole my heart and owns me and Thomas today

[brooklynsowner]

Well, I have to be completely honest, I was never really interested in the breed. I have always had boxers and I couldn't even accept having another dog breed. My sister in law got one and I had the opportunity to get to know her little baby and I completely fell in love with the breed!!! I searched for a couple months trying to locate the perfect puppy yorkie for me. Needless to say I will go back...I LOVE HER!!!!!

[adorame]

For me I have alway's thought that the breeds of the Maltese and Yorkies were very Pretty and I wanted one at a very young age and it stuck with me. Nothing else would do! My actual road that lead to me getting my Jeter started about 11 years ago.

After I got married and had my boy's I still wanted so badly to get a Yorkie but we rented a Townhouse and at first they charged a fee of $300 for a pet. Right when I started looking at getting a boy, our townhouse switched rental companies and the new owners did not allow pets!I was so upset! i wanted to get our own House then and their! But that didn't happen for Quite a few years due to my husband changing jobs.


My mother ended up getting 2 girl Yorkies by the time we found us our house! Thankfully my husband decided that Yorkies were OK after all to have and he came around to the idea of use having one ( he so wanted a Great Dane) So we had gotten our house at the end of August of 06 and we started some remodeling so getting my Yorkie was put on hold for a bit yet again. In May of 07 my husband tells me to go ahead and get in touch with the breeder so I could get my Jeter!! My breeder that I used was one that my mom got her Sindee Luo from and she was great working with her! We kept our fingers crossed for Maggie to have a boy for us and on October 1st I got a call that Maggie had her pups on September 30th and that there was 2 girls and 2 boy's!! Pictures were Emaild and I just knew what boy was my Jeter! I am so happy with my little guy! He was so worth the long wait!

[JuicyGirl]

I worked at a Chiropractor's office and one of the patients would bring in his yorkie, Cassie and his other dog Molly... And I absolutely fell in love with Cassie and her human like personality! That is where my obsession started... and a year after that I got Lola

[diggy4]

Originally Posted by brooklynsowner

Well, I have to be completely honest, I was never really interested in the breed. I have always had boxers and I couldn't even accept having another dog breed. My sister in law got one and I had the opportunity to get to know her little baby and I completely fell in love with the breed!!! I searched for a couple months trying to locate the perfect puppy yorkie for me. Needless to say I will go back...I LOVE HER!!!!!

lol isnt it weird how that happens?? I had 5 rotties before a yorkie ranging in weight from Dozer who was 160 lbs. (german bred giant) to Dava my female who was 110 lbs.. So big to so small

[yougetthesmiles]

my story is sad with a happy ending....

We had adopted a Dobberman from our local animal shelter, he was about 2 yrs old. We had him for about 7 months and he seemed like such a wonderful dog but very protective. Of course we had no idea about his back ground or up-bringing.

But after 7 months I came home from work one morning and he was sleeping with my skin kids and I went and turned on the light and sat down on the bed to wake up the girls for school and bent over to give him a kiss and he knocked me down and tore my bottom lip in half and bit my arm. I had about 22 stitches in my mouth.

So they took him away because I would not allow him back into my home. Well I started having very bad nightmares and anxiety attacks. So I tried to turn my nightmares around and concentrated on finding my lap dog, my baby! I searched and searched for her, I knew I wanted a female, and I was pretty sure I wanted a yorkie. I did lots of research on the breed and found someone in OH who had a female.

My mom ended up buying her for me and hubby and I drove to get her and it was love at 1st site! I adored that girl from the moment I laid eyes on her! She was so precious, she was my baby. Her name was Kloey and she healed me and took my nightmares away. But sadly she was hit by a car a year after I had her. I was devastated, I had no idea why on earth god would take her from me, I only got to love her for a year and that was just to short.
But now I know why he took her from me... Lillie, Baby, Rocky & Kibble

[chachi]

I knew I wanted a puppy but didnt know what kind. I had seen people walking adult yorkies but I had never seen a yorkie pup before. I researched about them on the web and thought they were the cutest puppy I had ever seen. One of my favorite places on the web to go look at them was the Wizard of Claws site. I know bad site, but I didnt know anything about puppymills, brookers or bad breeders then. I bugged my Husband for two years before we got one. Then we got our second a month later. They are little hoodlums but theres not a day I regret getting them

[yorkie mom-3]

This is really good reading. My husband and I always had medium sized dogs and one day out the blue, I said to him someday I would like to have a Yorkie. His response was, "those little yappy dogs". Well Samantha was one of those things in life that are meant to be. She needed to be rehomed. So she came to us at a year old. My husband fell in love in no time and thought she needed a partner in crime so along came Odie and last but not least came Roo our ex-mill yorkie. They are our furkids, no doubt about it. It's funny to see "men" get mushy over them. My husband sure did a 90 degree turn.

[Patti]

It was 1970 and I liked everything with long hair! Boys, myself. We always had Shelties, my sisters dogs, so I decided I wanted an Afghan Hound, My Mom of course, said no way, there were 4 of us kids in a very small house. My sister and I shared a bedroom that was 11 ft by 7, with 2 beds and 2 small dressers, a sheltie, Lance and a cockateil. So i decided a yorkie would fit the bill with the long hair. I took my last 150.00 out of my savings and frma an add in the paper my Dad took me out to see this yorkie, they showed us the aunt who of course was pretty. The puppy was on the bigger size but what did I know. Well we took him, I named him Karma (yes I was a hippie) and he grew to 16 lbs, had a short wavy coat and floppy ears and could be pretty mean. But I loved him all the same. He was really attached to my Dad so when I moved out I couldn't take him away from the home he always knew, with our sheltie and my Mom was home full time, So after I moved out I got Zorro, then Gracie after Zorro passed on at 13, and when Gracie passed on at 6 1/2 my husband and dtr wanted a pom so we got Maya, but I missed my Yorkies so now I have Cali, Pixie and Roxie.

[Lovetodream88]

My grandma has emphazema and I was looking for a dog who did not shed and would not make her breathing any worse so I read and did research and came across a yorkie! Once you look at one how can you not want one lol!