Here is the way that I think and hope it will go.
After there are enough interested people, the parti breeders will start to show or compare their dogs amoung themselves. A club will be formed.
Through the comparing, it will be determined which color pattern and coat textures etc are the most desired amd standards will be set.
When it is firmly established, standards have been set and the desired traits become more predictable, and a name has been selected for the breed they will begin to petition AKC for the right to show these dogs under their new name.
I have no idea what it takes, but I'm guessing if enough people and enough money is behind it, AKC will allow it.
It is rather amusing that the YTCA feels that they can exclude these dogs because they are the wrong color, while at the same time denying that they are yorkies.
If they aren't yorkies then they should be able to be developed into a breed of their own.
In the beginning these dogs were shown along with Scotch Terriers, then, because their hair split in the middle, they were distinguished from other Scotch Terriers as "broken Haired Scotch Terriers" . Then, because the breed was so improved in Yorkshire, a reporter suggested that they be called Yorkshire Terriers, and the name stuck. |