History of this beautiful breed is quite complicated. A lot of work was invested to achieve the today's standard.

Their ancestors were used for catching mice and they proved to be very good at it. Their roots are English, from the province of Yorkshire. Their ancestors were maltezers from Malta. Cairn terrier from Scotland was mate it, too.

In the 1773. Sky terrier was mated to the breeding. After that Dandi Dimmont was added too. The initial mongrel of yorkshire terrier weighted five to seven kilograms. Long and silky hair was wanted and dogs had to be as small as possible.

Yorkshire terriers were brought to England thanks to english sailors that were sailing on the Mediterrian. That way all of the ancestors contributed with some of their qualities to the final version of this breed. It was soon obvious it was a beautiful and wanted dog that was very expensive.

Actually it was the English club that accepted this breed and formed the first standard in 1886. First yorkshire terrier was Huddersfield Ben, one of the dogs that looked close to present yorkshire terrier. It was registered as the best example of this breed. Him and his descendants scored high points on the exhibitions.

Yorkshire terriers of that time had large ears so they were cropped. After 1895. Yorkshire terrier club prohibited crooping. This bread is about 120 years old.