Hello - Is my dog a Silky or a Yorkie? 4 Attachment(s) Hello everyone, I'm brand new to this forum and to the Yorkie world in general. :D Here is a little info. I have had many dogs throughout my life. After my Rottweiler passed away this past summer I knew I needed another dog. However due to where I am currently living I couldn't get a big dog again. After lots and lots of research I decided that of all the small breeds I really liked Yorkies and I started looking at rescues and shelters first. In September I found my Alonzo (the guy in my profile picture.) I adopted him from a small dog shelter in FL, and they said he was a pure breed Yorkie. :rolleyes: However when I took him to his second grooming the groomer told me that she was convinced he was actually a Silky!! I had never heard of Silkies but I was taking Alonzo to the vet anyway for his Rabies shot so I thought I'd ask what she thought. The vet said it is entirely possible for Alonzo to be a Silky terrier. :aimeeyork I've done a lot of research on the internet but I still can't make up my mind. People very often come up to me in public to ask if Lonzo is a Silky and I tell them I think so but I honestly don't know for sure. :confused: Alonzo is around 2 and a half years old. He is 11.4 lbs, and about 23 inches in length from the tips of his cropped tail to his nose. His coat is very silvery, and though I like to keep it short when it grows out it gets very curly. His ears seem to be larger than his head and they are triangular in shape. He has very long legs that he uses to jump up to three or four times his height!! :p Personality wise I'd say he has qualities of both breeds! So I was wondering what you guys thought, do you think I have a Silky terrier or a Yorkie? |
Hi and welcome to YT, glad you found us :). He looks yorkie to me. He's super CUTE! |
Welcome to the site Handsome lil guy looks like a Yorkie to me |
He looks all Yorkie to me . . and a cute one too ! I would say that he is a cotton coat. |
Thanks guys!! I don't really care either way he is still my baby. But it is nice to know! May I ask, what is a cotton coat? |
I do have a Silky Terrier and have studied up on them extensively. To me your baby looks very Yorkie. Some people just assume Silky just based on size, and we all know Yorkies AND Silkies come in all sizes. Welcome to YT. You'll love it here. A cotton coat refers to the texture/feel of the hair, cottony. |
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I had this same issue with my passed girl, she was big, also had long legs, ppl would ask me the same thing, even my vet thought she was a Sliky because of her size, all I could answer was her AKC papers read yorkie. As an adult she weighed in at 17 lbs. Her hair never grew longer then her front leg elbows, she had beautiful straight shiny hair, big beautiful German Shepard ears, her personality and traits were all yorkie. I have a picture of her beautiful sleek body in my album. Size does not determine breed of dog. Until I joined YT I thought I was the only person that had a jumbo yorkie. Thank you for rescuing this precious lil guy, love him for who he is, give him the life he deserves, and he does look like a yorkie to me. |
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I have only ever seen Silkys in pics and they def have longer noses and bodies than Yorkies. My parents vet thought their Yorkie (before this latest one) was a Silky because he was 14 lbs but, in reality, he was badly bred by a BYB. I think that is normally the case i.e. Yorkies which do not conform to standard are suspected to be Silkys but a true Silky is a rare find, I think! |
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As far as general appearances she is a nice/excellent example of the breed. She has a beautiful silky coat that is straight and splits down the back. She is longer than she is tall, and she has very refined bone structure. All that however, cannot outweigh her faults which are genetic. AND she falls UNDER the standard of 9-11 lbs, she weighs in at just 7. You wouldn't know that she weighs like a feather though under all that hair. (Another misconception is that Silkies don't grow a beautiful coat, but they sure can!) Now how is she different from Yorkies? Her eyes are more almond than big and round, like a Yorkie, her nose is more wedged than square coming to a point. Silkies don't normally grow a lot of longer hair around the tip of the nose and under they eyes, as is Mylee, but the OP's Alonzo's has lots of thick facial hair. |
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She is gorgeous! |
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Another difference is the ears. Not the size/shape, but Silkies don't normally grow a lot of hair off the ears. Their ears look more like the just pop up out of their hair, whereas Yorkies can have quite thick, long ear hair. |
After reading all the post and seeing the pics of your Silky (she is very pretty btw), I am convinced that Alonzo is a Yorkie! :D I love him either way but I'm glad that I can tell people what kind of dog I have. :P He is a good boy. And he's very cute!! |
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