Lifespan Of A Toy Yorkshire Terrier

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Lifespan of a toy yorkshire terrier. The american kennel club recognizes the yorkshire terrier in its toy group. The making of a teacup yorkie. Common causes of death in yorkshire terriers. Coughing and weakness are early.

And as to the yorkie terrier breed experts conclude that the yorkshire terrier life expectancy is between 12 to 15 years or 13 5 years on average. Distemper is a highly contagious infection of the gastrointestinal tract and or the respiratory tract. Female yorkshire terriers usually live about 1 5 years longer than male dogs from the same breed. If the standard from 13 to 16 years active and well kept specimens can live to 20.

In the 19th century however he weighed about fifteen pounds and had been originally developed to perform the less than glamorous but necessary job of controlling the rats in the coal mines and cotton mills of yorkshire england. The yorkshire terriers are small sized toy breeds that do not grow bigger than 7 pounds. When bred to the akc s standard the yorkie. Teacup yorkies are a smaller variant of the yorkshire terrier weighing approximately 4 pounds.

However the akc or other major kennel clubs does not accept it. The yorkshire terrier with his long flowing coat and graceful gait is probably the most glamorous of the smaller toy type terrier breeds. My shih tzu has fleas.