Yorkshire Terrier Forum:
yorkie or silky?

In May I purchased two puppies w/o papers from an ad in the newspaper listing them as Yorkshire Terriers. The parents were beautiful but bigger than I had thought they should be. The more I read about them, I wonder if they are not Silky's (or part Silky Terrier)because of the size of these guys. At 5 months old, one pup is already 7 lbs and the other even larger (my aunt's pup). They seem to have the face of a yorkie but quite larger than all these little 3.5 lbs - 5lbs I read about. Does anyone else have a yorkie this size? Thank you.

You probably have a "yorkie" however a lot of breeders don't follow breed standard, so that is why some say the have tiny or teacup yorkies. What they have are the right size and what you bought are oversize and that probably why you didn't get papers.They are breeding biger and bigger.