How did your Yorkie love story begin?

[celstu1]

Thought it would be interesting to hear the course of events that led to your life long love of Yorkies!


When I got my condo, I dogsat my bro's 90lb lab/pit mix. She was a sweet girl, but SO stinky and BIG. She moved furniture when she walked around the condo, I couldn't just up and give her a quick bath either, it was a lot of work to bathe her and she always smelled SO bad! It made me realize if I wanted dogs in my condo they had to be little.

I always wanted a Shih Tzu, since an old boss of mine had one and it was SO cute! I did tons of research and apparently talked WAY too much about them because my mom & stepfather came home one day with a puppy! She's really cute, but I am SO glad I didn't get a Shih Tzu. I started researching other 'similar' breeds, small with hair instead of fur, etc... came across the Yorkie. Just totally fell in love with what I read and pics I saw. These dogs are fearless and funny!

Most people had the reaction that they are not real dogs. We are winning them over more & more though. My friends love the idea of being able to carry them around, take them more places due to their small size. Also, when we go on 4miles hikes and they keep up and do awesome, they are super impressed. I'm changing people one friend at a time! None have Yorkies yet, but a few have small dogs now and are totally in love with them. I think for OUR area, smaller dogs are easier and more accepted than large dogs. I would say that NH, MA, is not very dog friendly in general though!

[WJM]

Well , I have always loved dogs . Had them my whole life through.
Yorkshire Terries have always been one of my favorite breeds but never had the opportunity to get one..
After I married my husband the time came when I had the chance to get another dog. So I decided to find a Yorkie .. I was lucky enough to find an awesome breeder 30 minutes from our home.. I made an appt to go visit.
I knew I had to have a Male pup cause I had his name picked out already.

Well the breeder had a 2 day old litter , all Traditional color.. So beautiful....
We put a deposit.. Now I only had to wait 11 more weeks..
It had been only 3 days later and I was already going nuts..
What was I thinking, I have absolutely no patients for waiting..
I checked out breeders website for updated pics and I see a pic of a roly poly Male pup , Ready to Go NOW. Music to my ears..
I called her up and asked about him , still available..
Off we go to her house..
We go out to the puppy room and she hands me this chubby 4 lb chocolate lovebug.. I am in LOVE..
The rest is history.....

[celstu1]

Oh yes! I just LOVE Oscar! He's such a handsome little man!

[yavenay]

I've never been a dog person, I always had cats. Well i started dog sitting my neighbhor's yorkie and fell absolutely in love. For awhile we were actually sharing her. When my neighbhor moved away, I miss the little stinker so much I went out and got my own.

[theporkieyorkie]

I have always been a dog person, but I never was a little dog person. In fact, for the longest time, I wanted to get a Neo Mastiff...and then my moms friends started breeding yorkies and my mom ended up with 2 of them. I thought they were really cute and they grew on me...and then when I learned that they portable and could easily fit in my purse and go places with me, I wanted one. Shortly after I started looking, my moms friend needed to rehome the father of my moms dogs and it was a no brainer. It's been yorkie love ever since and I just adopted my second one a few months ago.

Ironically, my first yorkie is anything but social and he makes a miserable travel companion. He's nervous in the car and he's scared of strangers...but he had such a personality. I've been around so many different breeds and they've never had a personality like my little guy has. I swear he doesn't know he's a dog.

To top it all off, the fact that they don't shed and don't stink like a dog is a big deal to me. I didn't even realize how great it was until I went home and was around my dads english cocker spaniel. I gave it a bath and it still smelled!! I don't ever remember dogs smelling or shedding being an issue for me in the past, but now that I have these little guys, I don't think I could ever go back.

[mmcarroll]

In our house we had a ton of pets, lizards, frogs, hamsters, dogs you name it. My aunt had a purebred Yorkie named Chumley that she had gotten and had started to learn the ins and outs of having a show dog, and I was always really interested. I went to shows with her and I would learn how to eventually groom the dog and what have you. My aunt had become part of a Yorkshire terrier rescue club as their treasurer and that was when my family got their first yorkie. We rescued a puppy named Melanie, she was the biggest sweetie. I miss her, she lived until she was 14 and we had to put her to sleep :,( That was last summer and one of the saddest days ever.

After she passed my parents had said no more dogs because losing her was so hard, but for Christmas my parents rescued my Sophie for me and brought her home about 8 months after Melanies passing. My aunt has had up to 5 yorkies at a time and my grandmother had her own little boy. We're just a family full of yorkie lovers!

[Anny Mendoza]

Growing up we always had dogs. They all were big dogs and were always outside (my parents didn't like dogs in the house).
When I came to Holland to study, I wanted a dog so bad.
My friend has a pug and I fell in love with the dog but the fur drove me crazy! I could stop sneezing and my eyes were all red and itchy.
That is when I realized that I'm allergic to them. Never realized it back at home because the dogs were outside..
I started my research and fell in love with the maltese and yorkie.
That's when I bought Nena (mix of both) and love her so much!
3 years later we were ready to get a second dog and decided to go with the yorkie (didn't want another white dog) and that's how we found Rufus and he too stole my heart

[baileyz]

I grew up in a dog family, when I was born my parents already had a Dachshund/mix. When I was 15 I bought my own dachshund (dad picked it out lol). Needless to say, my husband and I started off with a dachshund after being married 9 months. Unfortunately I started developing severe allergies and asthma a few years ago, the doctors thought I may be allergic to the dachshunds, but we both know how important dogs are to us, so I did countless research on the breeds and fell in love with the Yorkie's attitude. Needless to say, I found my Morkie, after months of looking for a Yorkie or Yorkie cross. He has the attitude of the Yorkie, but ended up looking a bit more Maltese in the face.

[ChibiLuv]

aw it's so neat to hear everyone's love stories!
Mine started because I wanted a dog but dh2b is allergic (or I probably would have a Shiba Inu). So I had to get something hypoallergenic. I was not a fan of smoosh face dogs so shih Tzu was out, I knew some people with poodles but I couldn't find any I liked. Then I typed yorkie into petfinder and saw some of the cutest faces I had ever seen! I loved the mischievous smile and the little beards, I wanted to have all of them! Once I got my first yorkie mix I was hooked and soon got my second yorkie and am probably well on my way to a third.

Here is a picture of the one that started it all!

[theporkieyorkie]

Then I typed yorkie into petfinder and saw some of the cutest faces I had ever seen! I loved the mischievous smile and the little beards, I wanted to have all of them!

Every time I go on Petfinder, I want to adopt more. I don't know why I torture myself by going on there when I can't really take any more animals in....but I've been trying to help my friend adopt a dog and I can't help but look when I am on there.

[dinolover]

5 years ago I decided I wanted a puppy. I did a lot of research and came to the conclusion that I wanted a small dog that was hypoallergenic since I have allergies. I was in between Yorkies and Maltese's. One day a friend told me about a breeder about an hour away that was selling a litter of Yorkies. That night I drove up and walked into the ladies house and she insisted I sanatize my hands before entering her house. When I arrived there was only 2 puppies left a boy and a girl. As soon as I walked in the boy puppy crawled quickly to me. I knew it was meant to be. I came back 2 weeks later and picked him up and he slept in my arms the whole car ride home. 5 years later and Dino is the love and my life and sometimes I can't imagine my life without him.

A few years ago my mom worked at a building that overlooked a person's backyard. One day she spotted a Yorkie in the backyard and began to pet him. She noticed that the neighbors were never home and that he never seemed to have food. (She later found out that it was a truck driver that lived there and would leave for days or weeks at a time and leave him with no food). Everyday her and her co-workers would set aside a little bit of their lunch to give him. On days it rained he would sit out in the rain. My mom told me about him and we started going every night to pass him food from the fence. He was always very friendly and happy to see us. One day when I was out of town I got the call that changed my life forever. She told me that the owner caught her giving the dog food and told her she can keep the dog because he didn't want him. I told my mom to go for it. His hair was long and all matted we had to shave him low. The water was black when I showered him and he was extremely skinny and had lumps all over his side. Within a few weeks his coat became soft and silky, he gained some weight and all the lumps were gone. He was a healthy puppy. He came with the name Bucket so I wrote him in as Charlie Bucket. We call him Mr. Bucket around the house now


They are such small dogs from completely different backgrounds yet they have so much personality and love. I love yorkies!!

Left: Dino
Right: Mr. Bucket

[baileyz]

Originally Posted by dinolover

5 years ago I decided I wanted a puppy. I did a lot of research and came to the conclusion that I wanted a small dog that was hypoallergenic since I have allergies. I was in between Yorkies and Maltese's. One day a friend told me about a breeder about an hour away that was selling a litter of Yorkies. That night I drove up and walked into the ladies house and she insisted I sanatize my hands before entering her house. When I arrived there was only 2 puppies left a boy and a girl. As soon as I walked in the boy puppy crawled quickly to me. I knew it was meant to be. I came back 2 weeks later and picked him up and he slept in my arms the whole car ride home. 5 years later and Dino is the love and my life and sometimes I can't imagine my life without him.

A few years ago my mom worked at a building that overlooked a person's backyard. One day she spotted a Yorkie in the backyard and began to pet him. She noticed that the neighbors were never home and that he never seemed to have food. (She later found out that it was a truck driver that lived there and would leave for days or weeks at a time and leave him with no food). Everyday her and her co-workers would set aside a little bit of their lunch to give him. On days it rained he would sit out in the rain. My mom told me about him and we started going every night to pass him food from the fence. He was always very friendly and happy to see us. One day when I was out of town I got the call that changed my life forever. She told me that the owner caught her giving the dog food and told her she can keep the dog because he didn't want him. I told my mom to go for it. His hair was long and all matted we had to shave him low. The water was black when I showered him and he was extremely skinny and had lumps all over his side. Within a few weeks his coat became soft and silky, he gained some weight and all the lumps were gone. He was a healthy puppy. He came with the name Bucket so I wrote him in as Charlie Bucket. We call him Mr. Bucket around the house now


They are such small dogs from completely different backgrounds yet they have so much personality and love. I love yorkies!!

Left: Dino
Right: Mr. Bucket

Love the story of Mr. Bucket. Your mother and you are such sweet people.

[ilovejoel]

These are awesome stories
For me it was ever since I was little, before I even knew what breed they were called I would always say "I want the dog with the bow in their hair" But my family is NOT into small dogs so I always sounded silly wanting one.
So after knowing how bad I've always wanted one, my mom and sister took me out for a surprise and I didn't even know what they were up to. Little did I know I was gonna pick my baby that night at the breeders
And of course my family LOVES Joel now, he's got them wrapped around his little paw, even my dad who used to call them "rat dogs" and think they were a joke, he loves Joel and plays with him all the time.
You wouldn't think these yorkies can change peoples minds so much I still tell myself all the time "I can't believe I have a yorkie now"!

[yorkietalkjilly]

I'd always thought Yorkies so cute from afar but had never been around one until the day I went to look at a Yorkie puppy. It was my Scotty. He was a tiny black and tan furball, almost baby-faced looking with fire in those tiny eyes, tiny, thin prick ears well-set on his head, short-bodied, cocky little tail and had a huge attitude for such a little thing - bossy as heck. Ran right up and barked at me when I came in the room! I was charmed to the toes and had to have him. I knew absolutely nothing about Yorkies and that they were terriers in every way but I bought him and brought him home and began a long, long love affair with this wonderful breed of charm, determination, spunk, eternal cuteness and work-ethic that makes life with them delightful. After Scotty came Jilly and now my Tibbe!!! Three of the greatest dogs ever to walk this earth and they were all little Yorkshire Terriers from head to toe.

[celstu1]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the stories and pics!!! These babies and your love for them are just so special! Lucky little ones, all of them, to be loved by people like you all!