White Yorkie??

I would be suspicious about any pure white dog in a breed that is not supposed to be white.  Deafness often accompanies aberrant colors in a breed.  And, no, there's no such thing as a "white" yorkie.  She'd have had to mix things up a bit to come up with one, I believe.  

Not neccessarily mixed things up.  White german shepherds are rare also.  And they are either reviled or given almost mythical standing.  Way back in Sheba's pedigree there is a white grandmother, great, great, great great great or something......we had to go WAY far back to find her.....they occur 1 in 200 pups.  So it's not impossible to happen "naturally" but you are right, in some breeds, deafness can accompany the lack of color.

Glenda do you have a pic of her. I would love to see it.

Oh, I just read an article in Dog Fancy about a white coloration but I can't remember if it was a Yorkie or a Cairn Terrier.  I'll look. 
 
Couldn't find the article but just checked akc.org and they don't mention white at all.  So, still not sure. 

I'll have to find some good ones of her and make them smaller.

ok Great. Also to give you an update on my moms dog. The test came back neg. So they are changing his diet to get him to put some weight on.

In my area regular colored Yorkies  cost around 1200 to 1600 anyway so it seems like a real live white one shoulda been a lot higher cost.  I would wanna see the lineage on that pup and if there is more than one, how is she beating statistical odds making several of them??  *something phishy*   Jules

I did an internet search on white yorkies and found a discussion on another board where someone claiming to be from Cameroon had "white yorkies". The picture they sent was of to Westies. At first they were wanting $10,000 for them. Then they said they wanted $500 plus shipping....I don't think they even had any dogs at all.

I would be EXTREMELY careful of anyone claiming they had white yorkshire terriers.

Here's the discussion:
http://www.nextdaypets.com/directory/dogs/forum/5256.aspx

lol I had to kinda laugh when I seen the pics. Knowing that they are westies. But the sad  thing is there will be someone out there that has no clue what a westie looks like, and will prob fall for this. So it is kinda sad really...

Gee, I've got one of those rare white Yorkies then!  Think someone will give me $10K for him?? lol

I'm thinking it's a total scam just to get people to send them money. They probably stole that picture off the internet and don't have any dogs at all.

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Gee, I've got one of those rare white Yorkies then!  Think someone will give me $10K for him?? lol

Maybe if he had a chin...since he is a Chinless White Yorkie you could probably only get $9K.  Or maybe he's more rare because he's chinless!

Seriously, anytime someone is bragging about their "rare" colored dogs and are charging extra for them, run, don't walk.  It's one thing to have a genetic throwback, it's another thing to breed two dogs together solely to get the "rare" colors.  When you breed for one trait alone, bad things tend to happen.  Temple Grandin has a couple of great examples of this with chickens and pigs in one of her books.  I think it's Animals In Translation.  Blue dobes are another example - pretty dogs but when bred poorly, they can have serious health issues.  And as someone who lives in an area where chocolate Labs are the flavor du jour, when you breed any old chocolate to any other old chocolate to ensure more chocolates so you get more money, you tend to get a crazy, mouthy, leggy dog that's hard to house train, as well as has allergies up the wazoo.

The other possibility is that they are indeed either misrepresenting a breed - white yorkie = westie - or are mixing breeds and lying about it.  That's the majority of the "silver" Labradors out there.  They bear a striking resemblance to a weim/Lab cross.

I had a cairn terrier as a child and the breed history as I remember it (I did a school report on it when I was in 5th grade![]) was that white cairns were originally culled - I believe because they didn't blend well enough.  Then a hunter accidently shot his cairn when he mistook it for the vermin he was hunting and vowed to only have light colored dogs with him and he developed the West Highland White terrier.  But that was a process over several generations of dogs.

Yeah, every single silver Lab I've seen looks like he's been *mighty friendly* with the Weim over the fence. Kinda like Oprah's white Golden Retrievers and the Pyrs up the street.....

Maybe I don't own a Lab/Mastiff/SchoolBus then.... hhmmm he must be the extremely rare genetic one-of-a-kind one and only giant yellow smiley long tailed minpin, huh.  I made a great deal and could make a fortune!  Jules