I think someone here called the long cut "elegant". I would agree with that. The puppy cut looks "cute". Just depends on what you like or what you can care for. I also agree that the puppy cut keeps them eternally a puppy!!!

I like the short cut on bengi. Not only is more practical, I just like it better on him, I think it makes him looks more like a puppy even though he is 18 months old. Personally I think the very long cut (not really a cut, lol ) makes them look older. Still they look beautiful! but I prefer short :)

Your lil ones are so sweet!! They are such cuties!! just thought i would add that in there-hehe.:p

I like both, I woulden't say mine are in puppy cuts or very long, somewhere in between. Just depends on the yorkie and owner, I don't think one is better than the other.

I respect your opinion that you prefer long hair, and I'll even ignore your opinion that you hate the appearance of my dogs, but to say the beauty of the breed is hair is turning a living, breathing thing into a doll. You might as well get a stuffed Yorkie.

If this was just an appearance thing, I'd cut you some slack. But to say you "can't ever understand getting one" without long hair shows me you have a different opinion of what a dog is than I do.

To me, the beauty of the breed is its spirit and temperment and its intelligence. It could be bald for all I care.

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Very well said!!!

Thank You Mike! I was wondering when someone was going to bring up the
breed traits as why we chose these wonderful little family extentions...

I have 2 Yorkies and 2 Biewers and live in Arizona where it gets as high as
120 degree's some days in the summer. Do I seriously need to say more??

More than appearance I am all about my furkids comfort, happiness and
over all well being. To say the word detrimental is being very closed minded
to the reasons many people choose or need to have their kids in certain
cuts. Long or short coat neither in my opinion is a wrong choice. I have seen
yorkies in full coat that are absolutely stunning and I have also seen ones
that looked like walking swamp monsters.

Like Marci I take great offense to this post...When you look at my kids you see robust, happy and most importantly loved and well cared for extentions of my family. If all they lack is coat then my friend as Mike said you are
missing the point of having a companion animal in the first place.

I can respect your personal likes or dislikes but then I believe you also
need to show that same courtesy in return and find a better choice of
words perhaps when portraying your feelings. There were much kinder
ways to see how other people felt with out basically insulting any one
that chooses to go the puppy cut route.

Let me address this in a different way...
 

We all have preferences.

Long show dog look, to the simple puppy cut and reasons why we chose the cut we do. I am probably going to go with the puppy cut so I can take Sassy for long walks in the woods. There is so much in the woods that can tangle her hair for me the puppy cut is just the most feasible. Plus I am disabled and not able to hold her to settle her to have her hair groomed daily. It wears me out just trying to get her settled. By then I am to tired to groom.

I wanted to pose this question to you: If your yorkie's hair all fell out would you love her any less? I bet every one of you said no, so in reality it doesn't matter.

I embrass all cuts but could care less if she has hair so long it flows down the hall or none what so ever. It's the personality of this little breed that attracted me to them.

Coat preferance....I like puppy cut on my boy, and long on Bella. As far as whats my favorite thing about them...their unconditional love for me :D

OK OK...it was poorly worded.

It's all based on opinion of course, but that's always the case.

Anyhow, the puppy I'm getting today is in a puppy cut....

Long or short....I just LOVE all Yorkies!!!!

When I got Beau we first decided that we were going to let his hair grow long...well lets just say Beau was one of these "walking swamp monsters"! His hair was one big knot! The second I would remove the brush from his body, his hair would get worse!! It was terrible! He actually has curlier hair so it just wasn't pretty! I love his puppy cut though! He definately doesn't look 7 years old!

WELL SAID MIKE!!! VERY well said!!! :bravo: :bravo: :bravo:

And by the way, I don't care what ANYONE says...you don't have to be BLIND to see that Jack and Eddie are total STUDS! They could be sporting purple mohawks and would still be the coolest dudes around - and that's the TRUTH!

Though the long, full coat is my preference - I think it depends on the dog and his/her hair. Like people, some are just not suited to long hair, so are more attractive in shorter cuts. And, for those Yorkies who have nice silk coats, it would be almost a sin to cut those. JMO

Abigail agrees: Stud muffins! ;)

I love to see the dogs with those long, beautiful cuts at the shows, but ours has cottony hair, and she HATES to be brushed. So we don't have much choice. She snaps at me when I try to get out mats. In the winter we let her hair get a little longer, but she has never had the long hair because it just won't quit matting when we let it grow too long.:(

I think it depends on the yorkie. Just like some people look better with a certain hair length, so do some yorkies.

I think the puppy cut is cute and very practical.

Right now I'm letting Susanah's hair grow out, but will probably keep it in a medium length/longish puppy cut and keep a topknot.

I like the looks of the long coat, but there is NO WAY I'm going to spend the time it takes to maintain it on a boy dog who loves to lie in the sand during the day and his favorite activity is to attack the sprinklers when they come on if he can get to them. Plus, it's rarely cold here where we live, the summers get over 120 deg. F.
But the main reason we decided to keep Max in a "puppy" cut (it's not really exactly that, it's just very very short), is b/c of how cute he was when he was a puppy and we wanted to keep that look as much as possible.
I think any type of cut looks good on them and I think it's up to the owner how they want their dog to look and isnt' really the business of anyone else.

LOOK at that FACE!!! Beau is so "BEAU"tiful! I love how golden his head is! He's adorable!

I like the look of the long hair too, unfortunately it's not practical for everyone. I brush my dogs at LEAST once each day, and when you have a dog with a cotton coat, the longer hair just creates MATS like you wouldn't believe, especially when she wears clothes. Rather than put Emma through the discomfort of combing out mats and having to cut out chunks of her hair occasionally to remove them, I prefer to keep her in a Puppy cut. She looks cute that way, and my husband thinks she looks like a little teddy bear-his nickname for Emma is even Honeybear!

Milli has a little longer silky coat, but I'm actually going to be giving her a long-ish puppy cut this week. I know it sounds backwards, but I plan to let her hair grow out in the spring/summer, and cut it short in the winter-simply because I pretty much keep them both in sweaters or other clothes in the winter. They need that extra layer of warmth since we're in Iowa, and I don't think it's fair to keep their hair long if it's just going to mat under their clothes.

I do like the hair on their heads to be longer so they can have ponytails and it just looks cuter around the beard part a little longer too!

I keep Sam's top longer so I can pull it back. I think he is super handsome in bows

I LOVE long hair on yorkies. Maddie has longer hair. Tucker's in a puppycut. He has gorgeous coloring and I wish we could grow his hair out. But he's such a little ball of energy he would be a walking mat.

The yorkie that I saw when I first decided I wanted a yorkie was in a puppy cut. I saw the cutest little yorkie girl in a very short cut at a mall, and I said, pointing, "I want a dog like that!"

I like the puppy coat...I think it's really cute. I keep Kalina's hair long though, although her belly is shaved. She plays like crazy outside and gets matted, wet, dirty, etc. Lately, with the puppy coat growing out, her coat has been a little bit easier to manage. As time goes by I'll decide if I want to keep it long or get it trimmed - I like both.

I wanted aurora to have long pretty hair and to have a topknot that I could put bows in. BUT her personality will not allow it. I will brush her and as soon as I am done, she is rolling on the floor messing it all up. I would try to put her hair in a topknot and she would knot her hair up horribly trying to get it out. My mom decided to cut her hair and I was all for it. I wanted a little girly dog BUT Aurora is a little tomboy and wants no part of it. She is getting better about clothes, at least, so I can compromise and say no long hair or bows.

I like both. I have one in full coat, one in a modified schnauzer cut, one if a full schnauzer cut, and one in a bell bottom cut (with her bell bottoms being dyed pink). I like playing with their hair and having fun with all of the different looks. Bouncer actually had the puppy cut earlier in the summer before he grew out some from it and we put him in a full schnauzer cut. Yes, they are known for their long flowing hair. For some people though, the hair is too much and it's much easier to manage when it's short. Now granted, it takes me not even 15 minutes to brush out all four of mine, and that's including my full coated girl. I have a hard time when clients come in wanting them cut siply because they say "I just don't have time to brush them" Excuse me? you don't have FIVE minutes out of your day AT ALL? That life must suck. lol There are some days though I wonder if I've lost my mind leaving any hair on them at all after they come in from playing outside! haha I was thinking today about the fall weather coming and once those leaves start falling......I'm doomed! haha

Depends on the dog...
 

Shelby & Seymour both have full-coats, but there has been many times that I consider getting a "New Look" for them. It takes a lot of dedication and time to keep their hair in good shape and without my hubby...... who helps out a LOT... it would be difficult. I love to put coats, sweaters, shirts, jammies, etc. on them and I think that the shorter hair would make that easier. I really think it depends on the dog.... just like people.. some look better with long hair, some look better with short. I love seeing Shelbs & Seymour with their hair flowing and soft... especially after a comb out. :hearts6:
Some of the puppy cut pics that I have seen on YT are adorable... and I couldn't imagine them being any different. (and I also have a really hard time visualizing Seymour in a shorter cut :eek: .... although Shelby would wear it well :) )

The hair style is a preference....but regardless of it.... that little bundle of Yorkie, underneath it all, is what counts.