Andrea - good point about the Lab. Stewie is on the larger end of the Yorkie spectrum at 7.5lbs, but he is sooooo teeny compared to the 90lb bag of muscles my Lab was!!

When I was watching another Yorkie who was 2.3lbs @ 7 mos, I took her and Stewie to Petco and you would have thought that Stewie did not exist. Everyone was fussing over her saying "OMG IS SHE A TEACUP?" and I would say "no, she's a Yorkie who is below standard weight. There's no such thing as teacup animals". UGH! Makes my skin crawl.

It was a good opportunity to educate people... I take every opportunity I can to let people know about pet store puppies, puppy mills and the "creative" words some breeders use to get more money from you... ie: teeny tiny, teacup, rare (as in coloring) ect. I let them know the danger "breeders" put their tiny females in to get those "teacups, teeny tinys ect" and also let them know that there are good breeders who use standard size and get a small pup.

Most of the time people say "thanks I didn't know that", and do you know any "reputable breeders"?

I get the 'he's so small!' comment with Bender a lot. He's full grown and just a smidge over 4#. No one ever believes he's 2 because his fur is still puppy color. I get asked if he's a teacup and I try to tell them there's no such thing, but people always think you're just uninformed...it's pretty sad. Anyhow, I personally wouldn't want a really small Yorkie. Bender is small enough for me, and now that we're looking for him a playmate we're looking for one his size or a little bigger, since we don't think it's healthy for them to be any smaller. Bender is the right size that I don't have to worry about him hurting himself when he plays WonderDog off the bed, and that's how I like it. :animal36

I forgot to ad that the same guy told me his dog was short-haired!!
Not that he had a haircut..the guy truly believed he had a short-haired yorkie!! LOL It's only 4 months old and it's going to stay 1.8 pounds and have short hair!! WOW talk about not knowin what you're gettin into! In his defence, it's his wife's dog, he probly doesn't pay much attention to the details. I really don't think he should talk like he knows so much when he doesn't. MEN! HA! (Sorry guys)

My aunt recently bought a dog from a petstore in Brooklyn that advertises that the sell teacup yorkies. She asked me to come along because since I have a Yorkie she said I could give her some tips on which one to pick, well I dont know why she even bought me with her because she didn't listen to a word I said! She saw the puppies and that was it! This place was horrible they had like 5 puppies in one cage and something was just not right with those dogs They were all FAT I mean fat like they were feeding them something they shouldn't have been. One woman was in there to get another "tea cup" she said she bought a teacup from this place a year ago and her dog is now 11 pounds!!!! I told my aunt to run outta that place after this lady said that after all my warnings to my aunt not to purchase anything from there of course she didn't listen to me and bought her dog. This dog is now 4 months old and is 4 pounds and is getting fatter and bigger by the day. I told her yesterday that she doesn't have a teacup she has a tea kettle. LOL.......People just want yorkies just to want them they just don't want to listen to anything anyone else says.

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Ditto!!!!! :)

Mine are 8 and 7 lbs. and I could not be happier with them. We adore them!
Now tell me if you think I would change my babies for little little ones....

Oh, do I get frustrated with this as well!$@%?#& Zoe's weighs 3.5 lbs and done with growing... And to some people, she's "long" for a Yorkie, W-H-A-T???? I've done much research on this and there is NO such thing as a "teacup" Yorkie. Some breeder do breed them small and these puppies are cute but a lot more prone to accidents and to getting sick... I had a Yorkie in the past that was supposedly a teacup and he grew to be 11 lbs :-) I loved him to death!!! The funny thing is, Zoe's weight at 4 months was exaclty 1.6 lb and she wasn't done growing!!! Your Pita is adorable and "tiny" in my book and she's HEALTHY! Isn't that what counts?
Syl :p :tongue:

A lot of people don't do research on the breed at all. I do have a preference and I like the small ones 2 3/4 - 3 lbs . However I take care of them like if they were real babies.There is much more work involved when you have a really tiny dog.Also everything you get for them or vet bills are much higher for the tinies.It bothers me sometimes when people tell me "He's a teacup right?" I let them know that "teacup" is just a newborn pup that you stick in a teacup and take a picture. If I were to put Cookie or Mimi in something it would be a soup bowl lol. I tell them these are toy sized and a few are much tinier than the toy sized. So they are "tiny" No matter what, 99% of breeders will sell their little runt for double the price of the others in that litter. I have NEVER seen the runt of the litter sell for $800 as if runt was much more special than the others. Mine weigh 3 lbs and 3.2 lbs
full grown.

Genie

My Zoe's 3.5 lbs and she is tiny enough for me :-)
Sylvie

HI... I breed yorkies and have for over 19 yrs now and poodles before that.. I hear more bad about the tinny's being bred than good.. You can have healthy but the way some of the people are breeding to get the tinnys fathers to daughter leads to real health issues..I don't profess to know it all or anything at times but do know you can get very tinny ones in a litter of normal 5-8# dogs. and you know an 8 pound yorky could be starved down to meet breed standards.. I weigh my dogs when they are a year old and if they get fatter that's fine with me.. I breed for health and conformations with tons of hair and wonderful faces.. My dogs are black SILK coats but my dogs weigh in at 2.5 to 8.5#. This is not a large dogs..I know a lady right now that bought a so called tea cup for over 2000.000 and after 6 months has almost put that same amount into it in vet bills..!! I hear this over and over.. NO thank you.. You get tinny dogs in almost every litter.. There are some excellent breeders that have bred their dog down to the tinny's but they are still having many c-sections as if you don't watch diet when pregnant the pups can become too large for delievery..

We just had 3 litters born the most I've had in 5 yrs.. I was on pins and needles.. Thank God they all were born fine and healthy... WHEW.. ! It's wonderful when it all goes well but when it dosen't you blame youself over and over... I've had people email me wanting to buy a 2# male for breeding to a 2# female.. Well, I'm not very nice when it comes to stuff like that.. Person even told me that her vet said the dog was big enough to have pups??? I asked who was going to benifit at her dogs distress of not being able to deliever her pups and who would make the money on such a breeding??? I told her if you want to breed buy something breeding size breed standard and then they can still have problems.. as it's a genetic thing as well as diet as to natural birth and c-section.. I told her the vet she took her dog to should be ashamed of himself.. I told her she didn't think much of her do to put her though that.. and her vet would be the only one to make money on that type of a breeding.. May loose the dog and all her pups.. especially if she dosen't even know what to look for with problems..

Well, I spouted enough..

Rosie

I can't believe it! You sound just like me! My daughter said I needed a Yorkie after my Peke died. I never knew much about them either---they were dogs, weren't they? Well the same thing happened as what happened to you. She was alone in a cage. very dirty and stinky. She was the runt of the litter, and my heart said, get her out of there! She also weighs 3#, and is a wonderful pet. However, she has bad knees, and am hoping I can keep her from surgery. The vet showed me what they had to do, and it freaked me out and I took her home. She doesn't cry or anything, but once in a long while, it will lock and she walks on three legs for a minute.
Like you, it wouldn't matter what she weighed. Although I must admit I wanted a small dog just for convenience sake. My Peke weighed 14 #, and that was a small dog in my opinion. I have bad arthritis, and just didn't want a really big dog.
Pat

best they dont meet my rosie shes 9lb there think shes a great dane, and im very very protective about my baby THEY WOULD BE SORRY



wendy and rosie :rose:


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its a shame not all breeders are like you, at least you can let your pups go and know there healthy and well looked after



wendy and rosie :rose:


:yorkiesar

My Zoe is 7lbs....and her puppies are 3 weeks old..one of them has a cleft pallatte and we will be keeping her but she is so small (but much tougher and wilder than her brother and sister) I'm worried that everyone is going to ooohhh and aaahhhhh over the baby cause she is soooo small and think Zoe is a monster size wise....when she is just fine and the baby is the one with the weight problem....and I don't want people thinking we have her just because she is sooo small..trust me I would rather have a 15lb Yorkie over a 3lb special needs Yorkie