Orlando FL
9310 US-192, Suite 102
Clermont, FL 34714
Nashville TN
1211 Louisville Hwy
Goodlettsville, TN 37072
Yorkie boldness in a curlier, lower-shedding coat. Bright, portable, and inclined to supervise whatever you happen to be doing. Worth the drive.
Harper-Andrea Burnett
Very well kept dogs . Excellent customer service ! The place is very nice, extremely clean with a lovely smell. They have a wide range of puppy breeds in their selection . I definitely recommend this place . We now have a yorkiepoo to add to our family . Thank you !
The Yorkiepoo is a Yorkshire Terrier crossed with a Poodle, usually a Toy or a Miniature, and the two sides of it come from about as different a set of circumstances as dog breeding offers.
The Yorkshire Terrier is an industrial dog. Weavers and miners moving south from Scotland into the mills of Yorkshire in the middle of the nineteenth century brought small working terriers with them, and those terriers were crossed with local types to produce a compact, hard-wearing ratter for the mills and the mines. The breed was tidied up remarkably fast. A dog called Huddersfield Ben, born in 1865, stands behind essentially every Yorkshire Terrier alive today, and within a generation the breed had moved from the mill floor to the drawing room, where the long steel-blue and tan coat made it a fashionable companion. It has sat in the Toy group ever since, and it has never lost the terrier underneath.
The Poodle arrived by a completely different road. It began in Germany as a water retriever, the curly coat serving as insulation in cold water, and was refined in France into a national favourite before being bred down into Miniature and Toy sizes for people who wanted the same intelligence in a smaller frame. What a Poodle brings to any cross is the brain, the coat texture, and a strong habit of watching your face for the next instruction.
The Yorkiepoo takes something from each: the Yorkie’s boldness and the Poodle’s willingness, in a dog that generally fits on a lap.
Most Yorkiepoos stand around seven to twelve inches at the shoulder and weigh somewhere between four and fifteen pounds. Which end of that range a puppy finishes at depends largely on the Poodle behind it — a Toy Poodle parent produces a smaller dog than a Miniature does — so the parents are the best guide available, and our team can tell you about them.
The build is light and neat, a little longer in the leg than a Yorkie and squarer through the body, with a fine muzzle, dark round eyes, and ears that may stand up, fold over, or do one of each for a few months while a puppy makes up its mind.
The coat varies from litter to litter and sometimes within a single one. Some are soft and wavy, some are properly curly, and some come out with a longer, silkier fall closer to the Yorkshire side. All of them grow continuously rather than turning over with the seasons, which means the length is whatever you decide it should be.
Colour is where the cross gets interesting. Black and tan is the pattern people expect from the Yorkie side and it is common, but Yorkiepoos also come in apricot, cream, silver, grey, chocolate, sable, and parti-colours where white carries patches of another shade. Yorkshire Terriers famously change colour as they grow, born black and tan and clearing to blue over a couple of years, and many Yorkiepoos do a version of the same thing. The shade at eight weeks is a starting point.
The thing that surprises people about the Yorkiepoo is how much dog is in there. This is not a passive lap breed. It is a small, bright, confident animal with firm opinions about the front door, the mail, the neighbour’s cat and where everyone in the house currently is.
The Poodle half rounds off some of the terrier edges. Yorkiepoos are typically easier with strangers than a pure Yorkie, quicker to settle, and more inclined to work with you than around you. What you end up with is a small dog that pays close attention to everything and still switches off happily on the sofa.
They attach hard to their people. A Yorkiepoo will follow you between rooms, help with the laundry, and take up a position on the back of the sofa where it can see both the television and the front window. They will let you know when someone is at the door and then, once you have dealt with it, get on with their day.
With children they do well when the children are old enough to handle a small dog gently, and they are usually easy with other dogs and with cats they were raised beside. Calm, unhurried introductions in the first weeks set the tone for everything that follows.
A Yorkiepoo’s day starts early, and it starts on your bed.
The exercise it needs is modest and easily met: two short walks, a game indoors, and something to think about. A brisk twenty minutes twice a day plus play suits most adults, and the walks are about the sniffing as much as the distance. A Yorkiepoo that has read every fence post on the block comes home satisfied.
The rest of the day is company. This is a dog that comes with you — to the patio table, on the school run, into a bag on the train, out to the market on a Saturday. They travel well and they enjoy it, and their size makes almost everything possible.
Afternoons want brain work, and this is the half of the day the Poodle side is built for. A puzzle feeder at breakfast, a treat hidden under one of three cups, five minutes of trick practice before dinner. Ten minutes of thinking satisfies a clever small dog more than another lap of the block.
Evenings are the sofa, a chew, and a small dog wedged into whatever gap exists between you and the arm.
The coat grows continuously, so the routine is regular and short rather than seasonal and heavy.
Comb through three or four times a week with a metal comb, medium and fine teeth, working right down to the skin behind the ears, in the armpits and along the trousers, where the coat is finest and where the tangles start. Five minutes with the dog on your lap covers it. A puppy taught early that combing means attention will lie there happily for it at ten years old.
A groomer every six to eight weeks handles the rest, and the trim is entirely your call: a short all-over clip that needs almost no combing between visits, a puppy cut with some length on the legs and a rounded head, or a longer coat kept the way it grows. Ask for what suits your week rather than what looks best in a photograph.
The face is worth thirty seconds of the same session — a damp cloth around the eyes and muzzle, plus a trim of the fall over the eyes if you keep the coat long. Nails every few weeks, more often than people expect on a small dog. Teeth brushed as a matter of routine, started early enough that the puppy decides the toothbrush is a game.
Yorkiepoos learn fast and they work for food, which makes the mechanics easy. The part worth attention is consistency, because a small clever dog picks up the accidental lessons at exactly the same speed as the deliberate ones. Agree the house rules before the puppy arrives so that everyone is teaching the same thing.
Keep sessions short: three to five minutes, several times a day, stopping while the dog still wants more. Sit, come, wait and a settle on a mat cover nearly everything ordinary life asks for. Tricks come quickly and they are worth teaching for their own sake — spin, paw, weave, go-to-bed — because this is a breed that likes an audience and likes having a job.
House-training runs on a schedule rather than a signal: a crate, a fixed routine, and going outside with the puppy so you can pay the right behaviour in the right place. Small bladders mean frequent trips, and it is worth thinking in months rather than weeks.
Socialisation is the long-term investment. New floors, lifts, umbrellas, traffic noise, calm adult dogs, being handled by someone who is not you. Small dogs get carried past a great deal of the world, and the ones who meet it on their own four feet grow into adults who take everything in stride.
Teach time alone the same cheerful, incremental way from the first week — a chew, a short absence, no ceremony coming or going — and you get a dog that treats your coat and keys as unremarkable.
Yorkiepoos vary, and that is the argument for seeing them in person. Coat texture, final colour, ear set and finished size all differ across a litter, and none of it photographs reliably. Personality turns up in about ninety seconds on the floor.
Our Yorkiepoo puppies come from our network of licensed breeders, and our team can tell you about a particular puppy’s parents, which is the best guide there is to how big it will finish and what the coat will do. We have a store in Orlando and one in Nashville, and you are welcome to sit with a puppy for as long as you like before deciding anything. Find directions and hours, and ask about financing while you are here. Every puppy here goes home with its vet records, its vaccination history and a health warranty, and our team will walk you through what those cover.
