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is archie a...gasp!...silky?! 1 Attachment(s) three different yorkie owners have asked me if archie is a silky. i keep telling them that archie's a yorkie but he's big. i get the feeling they don't believe me, though. he's got a great coat, but that's because i use pantene conditioner. honestly, i question whether their dogs are yorkies because two of them had brown and grey coats at a really young age (8 months), and one had a shih-tzu-looking face. archie's kept his blue and tan coat at 1 year, and to me, he doesn't look long like silkys look and doesn't have the almond shaped silky eyes. he's just like a humongous yorkie. here's a recent picture...what do you think? http://yorkietalk.com/forums/attachm...tid=6151&stc=1 |
i sometimes use to question if Ginger was purebred Yorkie, people thought she was a silky because she was long and had silver hair. but some people here reassured me she was purebred. i don't know much about silky's. so i'd like to stick around this thread to know as well! your little man looks yorkie to me! but what do i know! |
He sure looks like a yorkie to me - Silkys have a little different look in the face - I was just watching Crufts and they had a silky on today - their eyes are a little different and the shape of their faces - among other things - I think you have ALL yorkie and a cute one at that ! Course I may not know at all what I'm talking about :D - I'm going by what I see only cause I look at yorkies all the time lately ....And if he WAS a silky - they're beautiful little dogs too - but your baby looks like a bigger size yorkie and I wouldn't worry about it |
Lickthestar, I saw your post and googled Silkies. Looking at them and reading the breed standard, I started getting confused!!! Based on the that and the pictures, a third of the dogs on this forum could be accused of being Silkies! Bo included! I've got a flop earred, 7 month old, 7 1/2 pound Yorkie. All anyone can go on is what the breeder said they were selling. I don't even know if AKC could police breeders that well. (I may get slammed for that, but everyone just chalk it up to my ignorance!) All I know is that Bo is my baby and he brings my family so much joy! He could be a pure-bred flop earred, 7 month old, 7 1/2 pound rhinocerous and I wouldn't care!! BTW, Archie is adorable!! |
Doncha just love those spurts (that is my word for the know-it-all-nuthin experts) that can just look at a dog and know exactly what it is? Gimme a break!! Next time somebody asks if your dog is a Silky look aghast and say "OMG, do you suppose I have one of those?!!" I better go sue somebody for selling this to me as a purebred Yorkie." I love to jerk people's chain. Your dogs look like perfectly healthy, loving Yorkies. Hey, maybe they grew up too close to nuculer plants. Me bad!!! |
No, I don't think he looks like a Silky. Even though Archie may be a little larger than the standard calls for in a Yorkie. My Dad has a Silky and he has a totally different look and his coat is completely different. Maybe those who asked, don't really know what a Silky looks like :confused: ... Theresa & The Boys :rose: |
Archie Archie looks like a bigger size Yorkie to me...his coloring is very pretty. |
Archie is a handsome "YORKIE"!!!! |
Is Archie a Silky or a Yorkie?, Who know's, but one things for sure, he's a cutie!!! |
I Google'd it and read that generally.. Silky's have larger snouts, longer legs, longer bodies and bigger eyes. In size, they are normally bigger than Yorkies and should weigh between 8 - 11lbs. Whatever Archie is.. he sure is handsome! |
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I know I said it earlier - but Archie looks all yorkie to me... and next time anyone asks you if he IS a silky (if it happens again) ask them when was the last time they actually SAW a Silky. |
I've never seen a silky except on television at the Dog Shows. On tv at the big shows its so easy to tell the difference if for no other the reason...the grooming! |
He is a real good looking guy!! Beautiful coat! I don't know what the diff is in Yorkies and Silkies so I am no help there, sorry. |
I also just did a google on Silkies and found other pictures that look a lot like Yorkies! But I saved a few pictures of these Silky Terriers so you can see the difference.My personal preference are the Yorkies. I think they are just adorable and have the cuter faces than the Silkies.All the pictures I have here are silkies. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y20.../silkybook.bmp http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/gennel/silky5.bmp http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/gennel/silky1.bmp http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/gennel/silky3.bmp |
i can't tell at all! these pics look a lot like yorkies, too...but it looks almost like silkies are mini-pinchers with a wig...they have longer noses and really perky ears. |
Their snout looks completely different. It seems like the top of their nose is steeper and forms a pointy end at their nose. Does anyone else notice that? |
I wish I could say that I've seen a silky in person, but from the pics I agree with Natalie... it looks like the muzzle on a silky would be considered more of a down angle or a "down face" which you don't want on a yorkie. Their ears also sit differently on their head. Where the ears of a yorkie should be small and up, the silkies are bigger and wider set. |
Archie looks like a handsome yorkie to me ;) |
I don't care if he is a yorkie or silky-- whichever he is, he is soooooo cute!!! He looks like a real sweetie pie!!!! |
Oh I hope no one thought I was saying anythin about Archie!!! I think he is very handsome! I was just talking about the differences that I could see from the pics Genie posted btw the Silkies and the Yorkies! |
2 Attachment(s) You they do have similar charachteristics but you really can tell the difference. I think archie looks like a yorkie. A very cute one!!! But I do have a friend who has a yorkie and now that I have looked at the pics better- her furbaby looks more like a silky. He weighs about 12 lbs. Here is a pic of him and Luig. Luig is on the left and Milo is on the right. And then one of just Milo! What do you all think????????? :confused: |
A silky has a longer pointed snout, longer legs, longer body and is bigger then a yorkie.9-10 inches high, 8-11 lbs females are smaller. The silky breed came about by primarily mixing yorkie with Australian terrier and rarer seen skye with cairn terrier. If a silky was bred with a yorkie it is possible to get more of a yorkie appearance then that of a silky, and if you then bred that puppy to another yorkie more of a yorkie look could come thru in their litter. btw He is an adorable little guy. |
archie and I thank you for the compliments! i'll be honest...i think the concept of a silky is bogus. I saw a woman in the park with what looked like a border collie except he was black and white and she was like, no, he's a sheltie (a shetland sheepdog). I'm like, Lady, that's Lassie with black and white hair...I really wonder why there are so many different breeds sometimes, when they are all really some basic breeds mixed with other breeds. Like now, there are lots of labra-doodles and yorkie poos. Pretty soon, they'll probably become another AKC breed in and of themselves. I think it's all a conspiracy to make mixed dogs into purebreds for the money... notwithstanding my ramblings, in all truthfulness, I've never seen a real-live silky before, so i can't really say I know the difference. I don't think that milo looks any different than archie, so I can't say that he looks more like a silky...I just tell yorkie owners around my neighborhood that Yorkies were originally bred to be 15 lbs., and they're now just bred smaller but archie's just got the big genes. His sister, by the way, is 3lbs. |
I think you have a beautiful yorkie in Archie - there's many bigger beautiful yorkies out there... and as someone who has both a 10 pounder and a 6 pounder - I can honestly say when you see them together - size does not matter ! I wouldn't want Chanel any smaller cause she's sooo busy and seems to play really hard - but she's a total lap dog and mommies girl that loves to be carried around too - At the last meetup I went to, BOTH my girls were a little shy and INSISTED on being carried - Chanel must think she's small cause my arms did get tired ! |
1 Attachment(s) Looks like a yorkie to me Look at My sugar's face . Looks the same and she is AKC ,DNAtested |
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