Yorkshire Terrier Singapore
Yorkshire Terrier Singapore, the short answer: $4,688–$5,388 from Puppy Singapore, an AVS-licensed seller, vet-checked, vaccinated and microchipped under licence BR25052. The breed is HDB-approved at 2–3.5 kg and lives 13–16 years.
Two answers below are on no other page for this breed: why the price sits where it does, worked out from our own table, and the thing about the coat that sellers leave out.
Yorkshire Terrier Singapore: available now
Every Yorkshire Terrier puppy here carries its price on the card, before any enquiry, and that is the price you pay.
We have no Yorkshire Terrier right now, and the last litter has gone home. Litters in this breed are small, so gaps are normal rather than a sign that something is wrong.
- Tell us the sex and colour you are after and we will send photos when the next litter arrives.
- Meanwhile, every puppy available this week sits on one page.
The three facts that decide this breed for a Singapore buyer
How much do yorkshire terriers cost?
A Yorkshire Terrier puppy costs $4,688–$5,388 from an AVS-licensed seller in Singapore. That price includes vaccinations to date, deworming, a vet health check, a microchip, health certification and ancestry records. Age, sex and litter move a puppy inside the band, and coat colour does not.
What a Yorkshire Terrier puppy price includes
Every Yorkshire Terrier for sale on this site carries its price in public. Six things travel with the puppy, and each is a document or a procedure rather than a promise.
- Vaccinations to date, in the booklet that goes home with the puppy.
- Deworming, at every vet visit through the schedule.
- A vet health check before the puppy is cleared to travel.
- A microchip, implanted and registered.
- Health certification and ancestry records, signed and dated.
- Kennel club registration where the litter qualifies.
What a Yorkshire Terrier costs to keep, every month
| Line | Typical cost | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Food | The very low end of the $30 to $120 a month band | A 2–3.5 kg dog eats very little |
| Grooming | The real recurring line in this breed | A cut every four to eight weeks, for the dog’s whole life |
| Dental care | A predictable expense in a toy mouth | Whether anyone brushes from week one, over 13 to 16 years |
| AVS dog licence | $15 a year sterilised, $90 if not | Duration and sterilisation status, less a 10% online rebate |
The food bill is among the smallest on this site and the grooming bill is among the largest, which is the trade this breed asks for. Our price hub publishes what each breed actually costs to buy and to keep, breed by breed.
- Vet health check & vaccinations to date
- Deworming (done with every vaccination visit)
- Health certification & ancestry records
- Microchipped before homecoming
- Door-to-door delivery available
Where a Yorkshire Terrier owner's yearly cost actually goes
Why are Yorkie Terriers so expensive?
Expensive compared with what is the question worth asking, and it has an answer rather than a shrug. Here is where this breed actually sits among everything we sell that a flat allows.
Of the 22 HDB-approved toy and small breeds on our own price list, fourteen start cheaper than the Yorkshire Terrier and seven start dearer. It sits high and it is not the top.
Every flat-legal toy and small breed we sell, by starting price
The pattern underneath is not glamour. The breeds at the bottom of that list are crosses, starting at $3,288, and the ones at the top are purebreds, running up to Coton de Tulear from $9,888.
A Yorkshire Terrier is a purebred toy that produces small litters and arrives with a lifetime of grooming attached. That is what the position on the list reflects, and it is a more useful answer than the word rare.
- What moves a puppy inside our band: age, sex and which litter it came from.
- What does not: coat colour, and no premium is charged for one.
- What we will not charge for: the word teacup, because there is no such size.
- What we do not publish: average litter sizes or market-wide prices, because we hold no figures we can stand behind.
What is the downside of a Yorkie?
The coat, and not the temperament. That is the honest answer from a seller, and it is the one thing every stub listing on this search leaves out.
A Yorkshire Terrier grows fine, silky hair continuously rather than shedding it out. Hair that does not fall has to go somewhere, so it is brushed and it is cut, for the dog's whole life.
The coat in the photograph and the coat you will actually keep
Low shedding and high grooming are the same fact
Buyers read low-shedding as low-maintenance, and in this breed they are opposites. Our own breed data rates the Yorkshire Terrier low for shedding and high for grooming, and that is not a contradiction. It is cause and effect.
Hair that stays in the coat keeps growing and mats if it is left. You are not vacuuming it up off the sofa, you are paying a groomer instead.
A coat that stays on the dog is a coat you pay a groomer to remove. That is the whole trade.
Low-shedding is also what makes people ask about allergies, and that question has a longer answer than it deserves here. We set it out on what low-shedding actually means for an allergy, and the short version is that no dog is hypoallergenic.
What dog breeds are allowed in HDB?
HDB publishes an approved list of breeds for flats, and the Yorkshire Terrier is on it. One dog per flat, and that dog needs a valid AVS licence.
The full list runs to dozens of breeds and we keep it on the HDB-approved breed list rather than reproducing it here. HDB's own pet rules are the primary source, linked at the foot of this page.
Can Yorkies be left alone for 8 hours?
Not comfortably, and hedging that answer would not do anyone a favour.
This is a companion terrier that attaches hard to one person. A full working day alone in a flat, every weekday, is the most common route to a Yorkshire Terrier that barks at the corridor all afternoon and a neighbour who stops smiling at you.
- What makes it work: someone breaking the day up, whether that is family, a walker or daycare.
- What helps: building up alone time from the first week rather than after the first complaint.
- What does not work: hoping the dog will settle into it on its own.
- The honest test: if nobody can be home mid-day on most days, choose a different breed.
Do Yorkies pick one person?
Usually, yes. A Yorkshire Terrier tends to choose someone and follow them from room to room, and it is perfectly polite to everyone else in the household.
If you want that attachment spread around, everyone has to share the feeding, the walking and the training from the first month. Left to itself the dog picks whoever is most present.
Should Yorkies sleep with you?
They will want to, and plenty of owners do it happily for years.
The honest caution is that a 2 kg dog in a bed with a sleeping adult carries a real injury risk. A warm bed beside yours gives the dog the same closeness without it. If you do share a bed, decide it rather than drift into it.
Do male or female Yorkies live longer?
We hold no figures we can stand behind, so we are not going to publish one. The numbers that circulate on forums and breed blogs are not evidence, and repeating them here would only launder them.
Our own breed data gives 13–16 years for the breed, which is a long life by any measure. What actually moves that number is not sex.
- Dental care, which in a toy mouth over sixteen years is the big one.
- Weight, because a heavy toy breed carries it on very small joints.
- Sterilisation, which your vet will discuss with you in the first year.
- A harness rather than a collar, for the reason set out in the health section below.
Teacup and miniature Yorkies
There is no teacup Yorkie, no teacup Yorkshire Terrier, and no miniature one either. The breed standard already caps at around 3.2 kg, so this is a very small dog before anyone reaches for a label.
A dog advertised that way is either the small end of an ordinary litter, which is fine and not worth a premium, or one bred deliberately under an already tiny range, which stacks the fragility, the dental crowding and the joint risks. We do not sell, price or advertise them.
Is a Yorkshire Terrier a good dog to own?
For the right household it is one of the best small dogs there is, and the mismatch is easy to describe. Under the glamour this is a terrier that was bred to hunt rats in Yorkshire mills, and that shows up as opinion.
| Household | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Someone home for part of the day, flat or landed | Excellent | Devoted, tiny, long-lived and cheap to feed |
| A household that will fund grooming for sixteen years | Excellent | The coat is the ongoing cost, and it never stops |
| Seniors or a single-person household | Often ideal | The one-person attachment is a feature rather than a problem |
| Household with toddlers | No | A 2 kg dog and a small child are a bad combination for both |
| Flat empty eight hours every weekday | Wrong breed | This is where the barking problems start |
Health: what to ask about before you pay
What a good seller answers without hesitating
- What is your AVS licence number, and may I look it up?
- What were the parents checked for, particularly the knees?
- May I meet the puppy in person, and where is it now?
- May I see the vaccination booklet and the ancestry records?
- What will this coat need once the puppy fluff goes?
What comes with every Yorkshire Terrier puppy
When your puppy comes home
The timeline is set by the vaccination schedule, not by us. Core vaccinations run at weeks 6, 8 and 12, with an optional dose at week 16, and deworming happens at every visit.
- Weeks 6 and 8: the first two core doses, at the farm.
- Around week 9: homecoming, a week after the second dose.
- Week 12, and optionally week 16: with you and your own vet.
- Year one onward: an annual booster.
The first month with a Yorkshire Terrier
- Brush from week one, before there is much to brush, so grooming is never a fight later.
- A harness before the first walk, never a collar.
- Start the toothbrush in week one, for a mouth that has to last sixteen years.
- Build alone time deliberately, in short stretches, from the first week rather than the first complaint.
How to buy a Yorkshire Terrier ethically in Singapore
- 1Check the licence. Yorkshire Terrier Singapore breeders are licensed individually, so search the AVS public registry for the seller's number. Ours is BR25052, held by William Goh Pet Farm LLP.
- 2Ask about the knees and the mouth. The two things that decide how the next fifteen years go, and a good seller answers both.
- 3See the puppy in person. Viewing is by appointment. Watch it move on its legs, which tells you more in a toy breed than how it greets you.
- 4Read the paperwork before you pay. Vaccination booklet, health certification and ancestry records.
Adoption, honestly
Yorkshire Terrier Singapore rescue is a real search, and dogs of this breed do come through local rehoming, almost always as adults. An adult whose coat and temperament you can already assess carries less unknown than any puppy.
A rehoming fee is set to cover a rescue's costs rather than to price the dog, and the dog still needs a licence, a microchip and a vet. Treat it as a commitment rather than a saving.
Who a Yorkshire Terrier is not right for
- 1 Anyone who will not fund grooming. Sixteen years of cuts is the actual price of this breed.
- 2 A flat that is empty all day. This is where the barking problems begin.
- 3 Households with toddlers. Bad for the dog and bad for the child.
- 4 Anyone buying the photograph. The dog in the picture has a show coat, and you will not be keeping one.
About the breed
The Yorkshire Terrier was bred in 19th-century Yorkshire to catch rats in the mills, then refined into the glamorous toy companion known today.
A working ratter bred down into a lap dog is exactly what you get: bold, opinionated, quick to announce a visitor, and entirely convinced it belongs on your chair. The glamour was added later and the terrier is still underneath it.
Yorkshire Terrier compared with the breeds buyers weigh against it
All four are HDB-approved and all four are low-shedding, so the choice comes down to size, what the coat asks of you, and price.
| Breed | HDB flat | Adult weight | Grooming | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire Terrier | Yes, approved | 2–3.5 kg | High, cut regularly | $4,688–$5,388 |
| Maltese | Yes, approved | 2–4 kg | High, cut regularly | $4,288–$5,988 |
| Biewer Terrier | Yes, approved | 2–3.5 kg | High, cut regularly | $3,888–$5,388 |
| Morkie | Yes, approved | 2–5 kg | High, cut regularly | $3,288–$5,388 |
The Morkie is a Yorkshire Terrier crossed with a Maltese, which is why it sits at the cheaper end of that table. That is the cross-versus-purebred pattern the price figure above shows, seen close up in one row.
Where the figures on this page come from
- AVS licence BR25052 and how to verify it: the NParks public registry of AVS-licensed pet breeders, checked 26 August 2026.
- HDB-approved breeds and one dog per flat: HDB's own pet rules, confirmed in a browser on 25 August 2026 (the host blocks automated requests).
- The price comparison: this site's own published breed pricing, reviewed 26 August 2026. The ranking, the counts and the figure are computed from that data at build time rather than typed, so they cannot drift out of step with the breed pages. No market-wide price, breed average or litter-size figure appears anywhere on this page.
- Adult weight, lifespan, grooming and shedding ratings: the same breed data. The lifespan given is the published range, not an average.
- The lifespan-by-sex question: answered by stating that we hold no figures. No percentage, ranking or forum number is repeated, including to argue against it.
- Teeth, knees and windpipe: the breed health notes maintained on this site. No incidence percentage appears for any of them.
- Dog licence fees: the AVS licence fee page, read 2026-08-26. The published table these figures come from was headed "before 1 September 2026" and that date has now passed. AVS has scheduled a new fee table from 1 September 2026. Re-checked on the AVS fee page on 26 August 2026: the replacement had still not been published, and the live page still showed only the "before 1 September 2026" table, last updated 31 October 2025. Treat the figures as the last published schedule and check the AVS page before relying on them.
- Buyer-check guidance: Southend Dog Training and The Poodle Mom, quoted above with links to the source videos and used for the reasoning rather than as authorities on this breed.
Figures last checked 26 August 2026.