Chewey is adorable. I really don't care about big or small, just that the little one is healthy and Chewy looks very healthy to me. You go boy!!, lol. He is really cute, more yorkie to cuddle with.

I love the rebellious attitude with regard to defying the breed standard!! LOL. That's so funny!! That's right...you go boy!!

I just love those eyes he has and his ears are so cute too! You are very lucky indeed.

The fact that he is not within the "breed standard" does not mean he is not a yorkie...a widely held misconception!

Jacque the Giant Yorkie
 

I wish there was a contest for the biggest yorkie! I'm pretty sure my family's dog would win it. He will be two in may and is 27 inches long (from nose to nub) and is 16 inches from the middle of his back to the floor! Last time we weighed him (about six months ago) he was 21 lbs. I must say I do love his size! We get all the perks of owning a yorkie without having to worry about stepping on him or having to help him on and off beds! Here are some pictures of him over the past two years!

Here are pictures of the first day we got him (6 weeks)
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Here are two pictures of him at the pumpkin patch with my mom (6 months)
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And here he was at a year!
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He might be big, but he is all yorkie. I think he is beautiful!

Small is nice, but not everything! I have 3 yorkies and all three are different in size.:D

I just love the third picture of him, anne

OMG...how precious! Love the pics! My Sugar is 12 pounds and I always have people tell me that she's not a real yorkie because she's too big. Like it's any of their business. We love her just the way she is. I also love that we don't have to be quite so careful with the larger ones. Sugar's still smaller than my cat so to me that's a little dog. I love all yorkies, no matter the size.

I noticed you're in Fishers, is that Fishers, Indiana? Just wondering, I'm in Noblesville.

He is a cutie pie . I also have larger Yorkies .Peanut is 14lbs at 2years. Thumper is 18lbs at 2 years.They are the best. Just more to love.

He is a cutie!!! My first Yorkie was 16 lbs and floppy eared.

I have seen several ppl on here w/ larger Yorkies and I have seen them called Tea Pots on here... Just because a Yorkie is big doesn't mean that he is not pure bred... As w/ most small breeds Yorkies were bred from a genetic pool that had large size back there, so not all will be the 7 pounds or under that the standard calls for... In the book by Joan Gordon and Janet Bennett, "The Complete Yorkshire Terrier" it talks about Yorkies being judged in different classes; over 9lbs, under 9lbs, and under 5lbs in England... It is also interesting that the first AKC registered Yorkies were described as sky blue and tan and later 1 was registered as blue and white... in the AKC they were classed as under 5lbs and over 5...

It also talks about the breed points (standard) used for judging in 1878 which describes them as having a range of colors from a clear silvery hue of a deep sky blue to a black blue, getting lighter w/ age and the top dogs are listed as 10lbs and 4 3/4lbs...

Eventually they described the color as a bright steel blue and the size to be in 2 classes; under 5lbs and over 5, but not to exceed 12... then they changed it to the dark steel blue and not to exceed 7lbs and got rid of the 2 classes... bringing us to today where Yorkies are still born as in the old days of different sizes and different colors, but still this breed that we love so much...

I have a big guy, too. Last time we weighed him, he was 22lbs.

Here is my big boy, Harley:
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Tammy

Chewy is just delicious. I too have a larger Yorkie. She is one and a half and probably 15 lbs. now. Her neck also seems long to me, and she does the reverse sneezing a lot, especially after drinking water. But when she was about five months old, she had a piece of corn cob stuck in her throat and stomach. $2,500 later, she will always have a sensitive throat. Corncob you ask? Well we were told they like to chew on them, and we thought since she was a puppy, she would just gnaw on it. Well, about a minute later I looked down to check on her and it was gone. She swallowed one big piece hole and one smaller piece. That was a very hard learned lesson.

But, like Chewy, she is very active, which I really enjoy. She plays catch, swims, wrestles, and runs, runs, runs. She's very smart and affectionate. People usually ask me if she's a Silky or "Aren't Yorkies supposed to be smaller?" So the 7 to 8 lb. Yorkie I was told I was getting is now about 15 lbs. and I think she's still growing. But like you, I love her just the way she is.

Cali is just too cute. The attached story was great. It amazes me how similar their personalities are. Lexie purposely lets us know she has something she's not supposed to because I give her a treat if she gives it to me. So I call all those little items her hostages. If I don't go chase her to get something away from her, she'll come back to me and drop it in front of me so I can see she has a hostage. How can I not give her a treat after that?

Chewy, Harley, Lexie, Peanut, Thumper, etc they are ALL such cuties!!! I say THE BIGGER THE BETTER:thumbup:

My Samson has been growing about a pound of month and at almost 8 months he is almost 8 pounds. I wouldn't want him any other way, shape or form. He and my husband love playing together and having a bigger dog (yet with the cuteness, hair, coloring of a Yorkie) to play with my 6 ft 4 husband is perfect for us.

Amazing, very good looking yorkie. There is just more of goodies that Yorkies have!!!

I love your Big Beautiful yorkies! Another plus for the bigger size, I would think, is that children can play with them without the risk of injury. Hey, and as much as we grown up love our doggies - children love them more!