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Originally Posted by JeanieK  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. |
It might serve you well to contact the AKC, just for interest sake to find out what is all required to have a new breed recognized. There is no such thing as 'petitioning' AKC or Canadian Kennel Club for that matter here in Canada. There are certain criteria that must be met, records over many years that must be kept and once everything is in place, a submission by the new breed club to the AKC along with the appropriate fee. Here in Canada a new breed submission is also voted on by the members in good standing of the Canadian Kennel Club before it is recognized. These are members of ALL breeds not just the ones for the new breed.
Or if you know someone who is a fancier of a breed recently recognized, ask them what they went through. The Toy Fox Terrier comes to mind as that breed was recognized only last year in Canada and a few years ago in AKC.
Then you might understand what a parent Club for any breed is and what their role is.
You can't walk into an operating theater and tell a surgeon how to do his/her job. You can't stand on the outside of the registered purebred world and tell us how to do it. Get involved and learn.