Originally Posted by Belladonna1 (Post 3442896)

no It wast about your S comment, After doing some reading about why people use the trem t-cup or teaspoon, and remembering while I was at the vet the other day they have a chart on the wall with all breeds witch list a sliky and a yorkishier and the sliky is slighty larger, Witch can mislead people into thinking that infact a Yorkieshier is a t-cup.

Originally Posted by Belladonna1 (Post 3442898)

Well new people to the breed as like I said yorkies come in different shapes,sizes and colors just like humans, but I total agree with you on the subject :)

Originally Posted by concretegurl (Post 3442947)

I gotcha now...sorry I'm so tired on here...the boy wakes up to go to work at 3 am and I'm his designated secondary alarm clock so I've been on a very, unusual sleeping pattern...doing my hobby Yorkie research and what not at the odd hours! :rolleyes: probably not the best idea for making a whole lot of sense sometimes! :)
I've stayed curious as to the whole historical size difference or average size difference between Europe and here...which now seems to be virtually identical.
I recently was told that a Biewer was a Parti they are just from separated lines and prior though they were the same, then separate...not to bring that whole can of worms into this but as an example of, depending on who you talk to and how you interpret the meaning of something based on the history things seem to get confusing a bit at times...then again Yorkies really have a wide range of variations...seems to me more than most breeds do. :thumbup: Celebrating their diversity and common traits is such a nice thing, and I enjoy YT for that.

Originally Posted by sashajade (Post 3436980)

:eek: Your not the only one confused :D
I would say most yorkies here in the uk are of the larger size as we dont very often see the under 4 pound ones here but do see a lot of yorkies lets say the size of a westie.
As far as i know kennel club breed standard is the same in the uk and usa being must not be over 7 pounds to be able to show.
Yorkies were first bred to kill rats so had to be small enough to get in to small places but big enough to kill a rat as far as i can remember up to 30 pounds when they first started breeding them, they were dogs of farmers and property owners but when the wives of the property owners saw they were cute they wanted them as cute pretty pets so the fashion changed and they were bred down in size and no longer used as ratters.
There is no proven history of where the yorkie came from but most agree they came from Huddersfield Ben who was born 1865 and died in 1871.
Some records show that yorkies were given different names back then and showing had different weight classes but none were over 12 pounds but if you ever see a painting of ben you can see he is well over 12 pounds in weight yet he was shown so its hard to know what is the truth. :)

Some links both with different ideas History of the Yorkshire Terrier by Joan Gordon
Yorkshire Terriers
Dog Breed History: The Yorkshire Terrier by Susan Bailey

Originally Posted by concretegurl (Post 3442950)

Just for the sake of clarifying my understanding is "teapots" are those over the breed club standard of 7 lbs and "teacups" are those under the breed club standard of 3 pounds..."teaspoons" oh that's just scary to me...

Originally Posted by Charlies Mamma (Post 3443397)

My Charlie is 11 pounds I had made a comment that he is more of a stew pot yorkie lol

Originally Posted by alaskayorkie (Post 3443414)

Sounds like Charlie would make a great addition to the Teapot Club!
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...apot-club.html

Well, unless you're planning on starting your own Stew Pot Club! ;) I like that name too!