My little ole underprivledged girls ? THANK YOU !! But ...I don't know if they have anything to wear !!

They would LOVE to be the bread for the Codie Sandwich ... :)

Absolutely no cool sales pitch...in fact I had a hard time getting her to let me come see them because she didn't want to show them until they were older. I met her on here and I had looked at her mentor's little tiny that went for $8000 and she was expecting the litter. When the litter was born she told me about it and mentioned that there was one girl I might be interested in but then it was me who hounded her with emails for pictures and the like and she never made a sales pitch.

I found another puppy and put a deposit on it before hers were ready to be seen but I had to see hers before I made the final decision on Ava just to be sure so I begged Tanya to let me come up and see them. She finally agreed and I was so impressed but, in the end, Ava was older and ready to go and Tanya had not even thought about price at that point, so I adopted Ava. If I could have had two I would have taken Tanya's baby too...she is adorable and soooo smart!

You will also note that Tanya announced the litter at 10 weeks on here in the "My Yokries" section, but never listed them for sale on here, which is not to say that she won't,but I just think that particular criticism of a fellow UTer is unwarranted and uncalled for. Her puppies sell themselves.

Don't worry about clothes. My Codie likes his women NAKED! :D LOL

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And as far as yesterday goes, you complained about Tanya's price on that thread and said it was gouging and ridiculous and then you started a new thread recommending a breeder (who is not a member and who I am not sure how well you know her) who charges a lot more than that, upwards of $7500 for her puppies. That didn't make sense to me. You cited the very same characterisitics that Tanya has (puppies bred carefully with known pedigrees to insure smallness w/o genetic defects, keeping the puppies longer, a great puppy care package, etc.)
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EXCUSE ME!!! I said this breeder purposely bred to small genetic free stock!! your friend raises the price on one individual pup because she was the runt of the litter...

The difference is the breeder that breeds for tinies one knows up front your beginning price is $3000 and if you want very very tiny you could pay $8000

Tanya accidently gets a tiny and jumps on the opportunity to RAISE HER PRICE from $950 to $4000. On the other thread she clearly stated she does not breed for the tinies!!! Kim you have miss quoted her she said her breeding program is between 3-6 lbs!!! YIKES if I were the male in that litter I would have a value complex!!!! $3050 difference:(

PS i dont charge more, my dogs sleep with me and I too give a pup pack!

hehe...Smart boy - They do have lots of clothes - I wish Houston wasn't so hot or they'd be wearing them every day....Chanel said she even has a sexy RED Silk Kimono that Diva Pup made - soooo silky - she would just slide along on Codies arm.

Question for all you with experience
 

I was wondering from you guys with experience, The little yorkie I am getting next week weighed 17oz at 6 weeks. I was told today that everything with all her vet visits had been fine and that she is waiting on some more blood work that has been done before letting her come home next weekend. She then said that she had lost a couple of oz but that it was normal for them to do that at some point. She told me that she was supposed to get about 4lbs full grown. Does it sound to you guys so far that she will and is 17oz at 6 weeks too small?? :confused:

When my giant yorkie grows out of the tees i already bought him i'll sell them to you for cheap.

I never said the guy she sold her to was RICH! Where did I say that? He is very into his yorkies and treats them like his children and she had known him for years as a friend. Because you give your girls the "best of everything" and so does he does not mean that someone else doesn't. That doesn't make any sense. We could all give our yorkeis the 'best of everything" and I hope most do.

If it were a BIDDING WAR...the top bidder would win! The top bidder did not win so it was not a bidding war. I don't know how to wrtie any more succinctly.

Codie is drooling right now. He's my little casanova.

Yup - ALL TRUE ....I was there yesterday for that discussion - and thank you for keeping this on track Feminvstr....

I just drove off the road for a minute...Codie distracted me. :)

He has that effect on women :D :D :D

You're right - you didn't say they were rich - they just had 8 THOUSAND dollars to spend getting a yorkie. My apologies if I thought that means they have money to spare.

And I only asked about the Bidding war after reading your post saying there was serious competition for this yorkie. I still would love to hear how she commands those kinds of prices.

This was her "friend" price? Kim, are you making this up???

OK...I really have to ask - When I see a puppy for EIGHT Thousand - the name Jeff Dane comes to mind - I'm sorry Kim - I'm sure your breeder 'friend' is very nice - but I think THAT price is WAY out of control.

That's really just plain nuts and can only hurt yorkies in the long run if everyone thought they could get that kind of money for a puppy.

Personally - I think it's plain wrong and it's taking advantage of people with more money than sense.

I apologize...you are right...I was confusing you with someone else but, as Shelbiesmom has pointed out, shipping is not an option for a lot of people.

Yes, although some on here have serious doubts, I think I am an intelligent woman...I have a high IQ and I passed the California Bar Exam on the first attempt!! LOL!

You think it is gouging to charge more for a tiny even though they are in higher demand, is it okay if a breeder charges more for a female, what about a champion pedigree? There is no guarantee that a dog with a champion pedigree will have champion looks and temperament but it is okay to charge more and it ia not considered gouging or dishonest. Well, those things don't mean as much to some people as getting a yorkie with the "look" they like and the size they want. It is not gouging or dishonest if the person is fully informed and it is what they want.

Like I said in an earily post I think they should sign a contract guaranting the features they are charging more for. If when the dog matures he does not have these features then the buyer should be compensated.

I never said she doesn't breed for tinies...she absolutely DOES. You misunderstood something somewhere. She purposely breeds for dogs under the 5 lb range which means "tinies" by most definitions. She doesn't breed for "extreme tinies" which do occur in some litters where you are breeding for tinies. This little girl was not the "runt" either and no where did I represent that she was. The smallest was the little boy that she is probably keeping.

She did not place a higher price on the little girl because she "happened" to get a smaller one in this litter. I specifically and clearly stated that she has been working for five years to get this particular litter. She has priced each puppy based on it's value with help from her mentor who knows what the demand is and what each is worth. In actuality her mentor advised her to ask for MORE and she felt $4000 was a good compromise.

Yes, Kim I think it is gouging to pay more than the average price for any yorkie. I do not know why people charge more for a female but in my experience with the YTCA breeders it is never more than a couple of hundred dollars not thousands!! Kim, I have a champion pedigree in both of my dogs. even little Rio. Mignon has a pedigree that I won't even go into, I still paid no more for her than the going rate from all the show breeders I know. They are PETS for various reasons, if they were show dogs I am sure I would have paid more. But they are PETS. I paid a pet yorkie price.
Now I didn't pass the bar, but I am intelligent enough to realize when someone is taking advantage of me.

now pony thats an interesting concept..so what you are asking is that I place in my contract my pup will not exceed 5lbs NO MATTER WHAT The you feed him and feed him, get him to 5.5lbs then come back as state Im in violation of contract because he exceeded the 5lbs, I then inturn owe you a refund! what is wrong with this picture!!!

I think she was talking about extremely tiny Yorkies. For example, if a breeder says your Yorkie won't get bigger then 2 lbs, but then end up becoming 6 lbs, that had nothing to do with the food you fed them. 4 lbs is a big difference. That dog was never going to be THAT tiny so the breeder mislead the buyer so that she could justify her high prices.

You brought my intelligence into question in your post No 102 . Please do not imply that I was speaking in a less than humble fashion with my comment about the bar exam. I was trying to keep things as lighthearted and humorous as possible.

Now you are still implying that I am not intelligent enough to know when I am being taken advantage of, and I am a little offended but not terribly because I know the truth.

And if this matters I didn't get a puppy pack. What I did get is a breeder that listens to me every week ramble on about my puppy, gives me advise when I need it and a rock solid contract that protects us all, Mignon most importantly.
I didn't get Nutrical or hypoglycemic fact sheets or Albon. She brought me a dog and a contract. thats it. Oh and some food.
She knew me well enough to know I would bring Nutrical Just in case..(I have never used it).

That's exactly what i'm saying....and it was somewhat in jest. They are guaranting a certain look that justifies a certain price. It is possible that at 12 weeks the pup may appear to be a tiny and have a huge growth spurt and be a 9 lb dog....you just never know. I would never think this is a feasible possibility the contract idea...i'm just saying that it seems ridiculous to charge outrageous prices for a dog that's supposed to be tiny that may turn out to be a normal sized yorkie.

Tanya and I still talk and are freinds even though I didn't get a puppy from her. She is a wonderful breeder and I learn from her as I do from all I have met. They all have different ideas about different things and I didn't get albon with Ava either and not puppy pack to speak of so every breeder is different.

Your little Mignon is adorable and I am so glad she is so healthy. Ava has never come even close to a hypoglycemia attack. She is a little tank and eats very well too. We are both fortunate.

Kim, I wasn't at all referring to you. I was referring to whoever would pay that much for a puppy. My comment was meant to be sort of joking. For once I wasn't being sarcastic to you. Don't start being thin skinned now!
I knew you were joking around with the intelligence comment and I took it like that.

Thanks dawn! Sorry...I over reacted! lol! :D

When I bought my Katie, she was 14 ounces at 5 months old - so I pretty much knew she'd be tiny. I only paid $1,200 for her. She is now full grown at 2.6 lbs. To me, that is VERY tiny for a dog. I wish she'd gain some weight but she will always be perfect to me whether she is 2 lbs or 500 lbs.

I started a thread a while back called "How to: Have the Best Chance of Buying a Yorkie who will be a Small Adult". this may help some. Here is the link:http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9159

I can see it now, loads of people see that you can get a premium "tiny" yorkie and make thousands off the pups... what will happen? people buy these "tinies" or work a few years to bring down their line, and have litter after litter... making lotsa dough.

People who have no business breeding dogs will do this, why? greed. The same reason people do it now.

Sad thing is the "yorkie" is lost in there somewhere, while people try and get the smallest pup they can... oh and if your bitch has a litter of big (aka- standard size) pups, she is sold... while they move on to the next bitch.

There will be interbreeding ect... just like what happened to poodles a few years back.

Sad- it is really sad that these dogs are being used to make a buck... or a lota bucks.

You can defend your friend all you want- but you won't change the minds of those of us who feel what she is doing is wrong... btw- where is this friend of yours? if she is so proud of her lines she worked 5 yrs perfecting, why isn't she here educating us all? All she has done is come one here and talk about how small here pups were... ha- she knows she is price gouging, that is why she wouldn't say how much they are for... maybe she bases the price on your income?

it was a while back Pat mentioned a breeder selling a show potential pup, when the sale was final (buyer walking out the door) the breeder took the bow off the pups head and kept it LMAO!!!

Look no one cares about the puppy pack all the bells and whistles are just that...what they care about is a honest breeder charging a honest dollar for a honestly breed Yorkie!