Morkie/Yorktese pup coloring

[Lorraine]

Originally Posted by nicolecicle

There is no saying what color they will be when they are older. I have a 4 month old Morkie boy and my boyfriend's mom has his sister. Tanner is black and tan and Mia is a solid honey color. Mia is has really thin hair and tanner has pretty thick hair. But if you look at the parents it will give you a good idea what they will look like when they are older.

Parents do not tell you at all what the pups will look like especially in a mixed breed. They can look like either breed or anything in between. They can have quite a range in sizes especially in a mixed breed as you can't be that sure that either parent actually was a purebred. I have seen maltese poodle mixes range in size from 5 lbs to 25lbs and assortment of colours and appearances.

[Cerise]

Originally Posted by Lorraine

Whatever the breeder selling these mixes want to call them, they are still a mix between at least two breeds. If you don't know for sure what breeds the parents are, there could be more breeds involved. Which is fine if you don't care if you get a crossbreed or a purebred Yorkie or Maltese.
As such, with any crossbreed you can get anything in respect to size, look of either breed and everything in between. You could end up with a dog 5 lbs or 25lb, it may look more like a Yorkie, more like a black maltese or anything anywhere between.
In developing purebred breeds, it took many generations to develop the breed you see today, for example the Yorkie which started about 100 years ago. A purebred however is not continued by continuing to breed crosses, a purebred will breed true. So if you breed a registered purebred Yorkie to a registered purebred Yorkie, you will get puppies that look like Yorkies. There may be some variation in size and quality of the puppies etc but that will also depend on the quality of the parents and the quality of the dogs that produced the parents. If the parents were pet quality and those generations before them, you will likely get a very pet quality puppy.
A yorkie maltese cross is produced by breeding a yorkie and a maltese. However, you will not know if other breeds may have been involved if the Yorkie and Maltese were not purebreds.

I will add... to the OP... you will not know what the puppy will look like as an adult because most people who cross breed these don't have good a representation of the Yorkie or Maltese breeds to begin with. So there is no telling what the adult will look like. It could be cute, but I have seen some adult Morkies that looked odd and I believe it was because the parent dogs weren't bred right to begin with.

[DaniMarie]

Originally Posted by Cerise

I will add... to the OP... you will not know what the puppy will look like as an adult because most people who cross breed these don't have good a representation of the Yorkie or Maltese breeds to begin with. So there is no telling what the adult will look like. It could be cute, but I have seen some adult Morkies that looked odd and I believe it was because the parent dogs weren't bred right to begin with.

This thread is from 2006.

(not yelling just hope everyone notices)

Someone bumped it up. The OP I'm sure is loooooong gone and made their decision three-four years ago.

[Cerise]

Originally Posted by danimarie

this thread is from 2006.

(not yelling just hope everyone notices)

someone bumped it up. The op i'm sure is loooooong gone and made their decision three-four years ago.

lol!

[2Morkies]

Hi future Morkie owner,
I saw mine from when they were little too. I think the dark black one if he has any other colors such as white and tan might look like my Boomer full grown. The dark golden one may end up like my Muffin. She was a dark golden with black on her too...now she's mostly white!! She could end up more carmel-y color....also super cute. The lighter the colored one may end up more white like a Maltese. Your choices sound cute...such a hard decision. Hope this helps. Oh...one more thing... In my furbabies litter there were black and white ones too...they probably grew into cuties as well.

[Meghan1007]

I alsoneed help with the same problem im adopting a light caramel colored morkie and i dont know what color she will be im thinking a light blonde but i would really like to know!haha i had problems downloading a pic of her but this is about her color shes a bit lighter though

[pdtalker]

oh my gosh I am sorry I cried when I read a post . but let me say . I have a morkie and you can see her pic.. I love her and she is soooo sweet and she loves to be held and she is so smart she picks up on tricks like you would not believe. my husband did not want another dog because he was still heartbroken over loosing our other dog but he told me last night that I did good. he really likes her personality . she is such a people person..

[pdtalker]

Originally Posted by Tashasmom

I"m going on out on a limb here and have been afraid to say this since i joined this forum because so many judge but i'm going to anyway. I bred my yorkie tasha to a poodle. Yes her pups are yorkie poos. I did it for one cause i had planned on breeding yorkie poos and 2 because they make great dogs for people that do have allergies and I have 3 kids that have them so I had decided to breed them. I have since decided that I want to stick with just yorkies. But I have to say. I've owned purebreds and I've owned mixed breeds. And to be honest I"ve found more mixed breeds to be a gentler dog than pure breeds. Don't get me wrong I love my pure breds but they can have tempermental probs as well as other probs too. I can also say that in my opinion i've not seen ONE single yorkie that looks like another. quality or not I don't think yorkies all look the same. I don't think I could go pick one out as apup and it look anything like the others full grown. but they all have similarities and that's what attracts me to them. I hope I haven't lost respect from other breeders but if I have then they weren't my friend to start with..here are my babies

your babies are beautiful

[pdtalker]

Originally Posted by Meghan1007

I alsoneed help with the same problem im adopting a light caramel colored morkie and i dont know what color she will be im thinking a light blonde but i would really like to know!haha i had problems downloading a pic of her but this is about her color shes a bit lighter though

I got a caramel color one and she has stayed the same color except some white that has come up on the top of her head which is so cute. she has this awesome color.. to her

[McheleM]

Just a question...

How is it that you can get such a vast assortment of colors in these pups if one is a Maltese (which are always white and only white) and the other is a Yorkie who are black/blue and tan/gold???

[Teegy]

Originally Posted by Tashasmom

I did it for one cause i had planned on breeding yorkie poos and 2 because they make great dogs for people that do have allergies and I have 3 kids that have them so I had decided to breed them.

As someone who over the years developed allergies to dogs, previously having a cocker spaniel, I can assure you I'm not the slightest bit allergic to my two Yorkies. It's so funny what you were also saying about mixing with a poodle, because I just had a discussion last week with a former poodle owner who was telling me all the ones she ever had were very aggressive with other dogs. I was dog sitting a poodle cross over Christmas and had to have someone come and pick them up as their toy aggression was brutal. They had a lovely temperament with me, but nearly ripped the faces off my dogs. I'm glad you decided to stick with Yorkies

[Verbena]

This is a really old thread