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The AKC papers on my 18.9 lb "Yorkie" are from an Amish breeder somewhere out in Lancaster PA area. I'm his third owner in 2.5 years--it's keeping up with the energy that had his last owner give him up. Appreciate your comment on this: a HANDFULL is what we have here.

Ok....I am soooo late. I thought this was a "new" thread, but I see it was started in 2005. LOL is Chewie still here? Well, jut wanted to say that I think he's just adorable! Hope all is well with him.

He's awesome. Weight withstanding, that is one beautiful boy!

My Prada is a cotton coat yorkie, AKC, and weights about 14 pounds, she is NOT a standard size or coat, but some of her sibblings are, and her parents too.. is ALL about GENETICS.. my girl is the exception to the rule..LOL
remember yorkies used to be bigger dogs until the humans decided to shrink them.
hugs,

He's beautiful!!!
 

I believe when the breed was first developed they were much larger originally, up to 20 lbs. Then they began taking the runts of the liters and breeding them to be smaller. AND, don't shoot the messenger, I also read that some hideously unscrupulous (I have a few less eloquent words) breeders will give the poor baby mommies a C-section and sell those poor premature babies as teacups. Which could be one of the reasons why the tiny Yorkies can be so sickly.

My boy is 6.14 last time he was weighed at the vet and will be 7 mos. on 3/30. I need to get on a computer to post a pic. I tried cutting and pasting from iPad but it didn't work :confused:

My doggie is pretty long with a long neck as well.

He actually looks a lot like Miles!!!! He's beautiful!!!! OK, I will fire up the old computie and post a pic. Miles has a bro out there somewhere in NY. Hmmmmm.... Lol.

They are all so cute !

Yorkie standard are so unreasonable when it comes to our Yorkies. Unless you plan on showing your Yorkie, dont worry about how big they are. What people dont understand is that they come from a line of larger breed dogs that can show up in a blood line at any time.

History Of Yorkies | Yorkies History


I have four Yorkies all are well over standard weight and Brandi is my largest at 20+ lbs.

hes super cute!

Dawn, agreed, it's the dog and the personality you fall in love with and some Yorkies have big genes some wee genes.

:D So very true !!

Our "purebred" Yorkie, Graysee, is currently approximately 11.4 pounds. Although she is not the AKC-recognized standard, she still has her papers and bloodline as 100% Yorkie. I have always suspected that somewhere up the line there might have been a Silky in the mix! Doesn't matter, I wouldn't trade her for anything!

Possible but many Yorkies even from wonderfully conforming YTCA standard lines throw an out of standard pup or few.

Remember it was less than 100 years ago when the "Yorkie" was quite often coming in at closer to 20# than under 10...they were already extremely bred down in size to be under 7#.

Thus I personally have serious issues in those breeding them down under the current low standard size range.

Hi..I have a mutant yorkie who is around 15lbs. and he mated with our little 8lb. mini pin. It certainly was not our plan. Now I am wondering what size pups she is most likely to have. Do you know if my mutant will have the throwback genes or could it be possible they will be the little yorkies as his mother/father and sister and brother were? Just wondering if any mutant owners have bred their big babies.

Well you certainly wont have little yorkies.

You'll have min pin yorkie mixes.

My male was bred and produced in standard pups, however out of standard dogs are obviously by definition not breeding quality.

My male came from a line of undersized yorkies actually.
Goodluck finding homes for those pups please spay neuter.

Thank-you concretegurl for your reply. I had taken the mini pin in as a rescue and was not told she was in heat and you could not tell. My yorkie, Mickey was neutered 2 weeks after I took the mini pin in. I had no idea until 5 weeks later that pups were on the way. Thanks goodness all healthy little guys(3) and all spoken for. I am giving them away on the condition the owners are to have them neutered. The pups are sweet but nothing compares to my wild man Mickey.

Wow. That stinks.
Glad they all have homes now and I hope they remain healthy many issues take years to present.
Glad you got them both altered and wont have to deal with this again.
I just love big yorkie boys.

Both of mine are Teapots ! ;)

And are mature enough for me to "say" how big they are going to get.
Becca at 2yo, is 8.3 lbs, and Sneakers at 4yo, is 13.2 lbs.

They are brother and sister, and their parents are exactly AKC standard dogs (weight/dimensions), but have always thrown large puppies.

I'm hopeing to get another Male soon.
I guess it's like Chips, you can't just have one. :D

Are you specifically getting another teapot or just a yorkie and seeing where it matures at?

Aren't medium sized dogs in a Yorkie's DNA / lineage? Like scotties, silkies, Australian terriers, etc. I come from a human mixed breed family lol and from what I've seen is if the genes are in ya there's always a potential for them to come out of ya lol!!

History of the Yorkshire Terrier by Joan Gordon

Yes larger breeds bred down primarily for small ratters that could fit in small places luke victoriab home walls which werent like the walls of today. They were double walls with like ab 8 inch space it was thought this space would hold heat...now we know we only need one wall with insulation in it.. and yorkies make better pets than pes

This vintage postcard shows some larger Yorkies .... they remind me of my throw-back, Jezebel, except her head doesn't have the dark on top:

Love old artwork of dogs, especially terriers and sporting dogs. If I were extremely wealthy, I would collect fine artwork of dogs - most of it is just beautiful and so tastefully done.

Here is my bigger yorkie, I believe he is about 13 pounds.

howdy folks, ii googled this post and joined the site, i have a full blooded yorkie i tried to post about, but its been awaiting approval for hours now. my yorkie AKA stitch was the runt of my sisters first litter, she has 2 registered yorkies, was was looking for a service dog at that time and thought i needed a large dog, but my daughter fell in love with the runt of the litter, and so did i, so as our visit was ending we took stitch home and weened her ourselves, we live half the country apart so a return trip wasnt possible. i told my sister the runt was way bigger than hers, and when she visited a couple months ago she freaked n scared us pretty well. stitch is 36.5lbs at last vet visit, she is not overweight, and never having owned a dog smaller than 100lbs i didnt realize something might be wrong. stitch looks 100% like every other yorkie ive seen just much much larger. ive tried for months to find any info on this in case it might be a genetic condition like gigantism etc. ive tried asking on other sites to be flamed etc and im hoping for just a bit of help. the local vet doesnt seem the least bit worried, "shes just a big girl" etc, but doesnt offer any knowledge or want to do tests. i dont know much about yorkies except i love mine, shes trained to get me a phone if i flip my wheelchair and goes everywhere with me. shes probably the only yorkie who fought and killed a coyote when she got out one evening as i tried to go out n save the neighbors jack russel from the coyote, i was almost in tears as i couldnt shoot with stitch in the way but she won the battle with mollys help ( jack russel). this puppy is the best of both worlds she rides in my chair with me like a small lap dog and can defend herself if need be protect us. i could talk for days about her lol. i know this got long winded, but any help about possible concerns or if i should get her to another vet etc would be very welcome. ill load pics n video asap so u can see her, ppl always flip when they see her i just never thought it could be bad till my sisters visit and her reaction. thank you for reading and for any help you can offer.
to sum up
full blooded yorkie, both parents, all 4 grandparents registered.
36.5lbs not overweight
was the runt
thats about all the facts i can think of. thank you for any help.....shawn

ps sorry if i hijacked this thread.

I think you would get more responses if you created an individual thread of your own....

i tried twice but being new it wont allows a new thread unless someone read n allows it. after almost 2 months trying to find an answer being this close is torture. between ppl flaming me, or outright accusing me of lying, "yorkies do not get 30+lbs" etc and a rural veterinarian who mainly does pet shots n livestock ive got nowhere heh. but when my daughter found this site we read the post about everyone being nice to one another we figured why not try again. i can send videos and photos of her from 3 weeks old to current size if needed to show she really is that big, but we are going crazy wondering if something could be wrong. she stayed smallish till about 6-8 weeks n then blam she grew like crazy. im just hoping that someone here might know how or why shes so big, all her litter mates are average sized, and she was the runt. altho i have begun calling her arnold schwartza-yorkie recently lol. thank you for taking the time to respond.....shawn

Welcome to Yorkie Talk ranger5598.

Whoa! Stitch would make my two 16 pounders look tiny! I refer to mine as Yorkzillas.

Chuy didn't join us until he was a year old, so I have no idea about his growth.

We got Jezebel as a puppy and I weighed her every week just to make sure she was eating enough, expecting a gain of 2-3 oz a week. This is how it went:

Beginning weight, per vet: 32 oz
1 week (home postal scale): 34 oz .... +2oz
2 weeks (vet): 38 oz .... +4oz
3 weeks (home postal scale): 50oz ... +12oz :eek::eek::eek:

Do the math, her rate of growth was over 30% increase in just one week! In the 8 weeks to follow, her weekly weight increase ranged from 6.6% up to 24.1%. I stopped doing the weekly weigh-ins when she was 38 weeks old and a bit over 10 lbs, and she eventually topped out at about 16 lbs.

I kept all of her weigh-ins on a spreadsheet and showed it to my vet, and he just looked at it, shook his head, laughed, and said it was amazing. He said that if she were a large breed dog it would definitely be a problem, but since she was a smaller breed he wasn't concerned. With the larger breeds their joint growth can't keep up with their bones and body mass and it is painful until their joint growth catches up.

I love the terrier confidence and spunk and had always wondered what it would be like to have something larger than my Yorkies, such as a Cairn, Norfolk, Westie, etc. Now I've got that all in one package!

Welcome to YT, you would get more replies if you started your own thread, but I understand your concern. You have one big yorkie lol, tops mine, she was 17 lbs of pure AKC reg. puppy, no fat, beautiful sleek body. I LOVE the bigger yorkies, I cannot answer your question, I do hope more members will take the time to read this very old thread and give you the answer. I have to assume it is generic, somewhere in the blood lines of grand or great grand parents. You have an awesome puppy there, I would love to see pics of her.

Yeah, for a while, if a new member wants to post a thread or a reply in general, mods have to read and check it.

That's all right, I believe you. I don't think you'd come on here asking for help if it were all a hoax.

I can't give you any advice as I'm not an expert....but I must ask: do you know if your yorkie is 100% yorkie for sure? If you're not sure, there are some DNA tests. We'd also love to see a picture! :)

Here are some other threads with other "teapot" Yorkie owners here on YT:

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...-terriers.html

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...ig-yorkie.html
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...rkie-huge.html

If you do a search for "Teapot yorkie" here on YT, a lot of members have 16+ pound yorkies here like yours, so you're not alone! I saw that some other members in here have their yorkies in around 20-25 lb range.

Feel free to join the Yorkie Talk Teapot Club and put in an application. Link is here:
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...t-club-66.html