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Originally Posted by yorkiekist  That is not why YTCA banned chocolate yorkies. They banned them because they, as well as all the other designer colors, are incorrect. They did not ban them from being registered as AKC. Showing is for exhibiting your breeding stock and these designer colors are faults and shound not be bred or included in showing for that reason. they never said anything about rare breeds. |
The term that should be used here is not Designer Colors but Off Colors. Designer Colors and Designer Dogs are terms normally used for man made cross breedings between different breeds of dogs.
Parti and chocolate are not "Designer colors", they are Yorkshire terriers who carry recessive genes for those colors, just like Blue and tan yorkies carry a dominate gene for gray. Don't be fooled, many of those blue and tan dogs also carry "hidden" recessive genes for chocolate and parti too (as we've seen) ... but I guess that's A-OK, just as long as you don't know it or don't see it?
Seems strange though, that the off colored Black and tan, Black and gold and Blue and gold Yorkies were allowed to show and win, prior to the disqualification rule but now they are no longer allowed to show. Of course since no age limit was voted on, as to when a pups coat had to turn blue by, I have a feeling that some black coated dogs will still show - just stating that their dog is slow to turn blue. I guess time will tell on that one.