Ok I'm going to make another comment LOL.....Here is my opinion on this subject.....Although I prefer the correct color but what is more important to me in a show yorkie is the overall health, then comes structure/top line and movement, then a nice ear set, good bite and then the coat color. In my opinion you have to have a well put together dog structurely and healthy and then strive for that perfect color but you won't always have a 100% correct yorkie or any breed for that matter. I did not approve of the DQ in our standard but nor do I support a tri colored yorkie in the yorkie ring either nor do I support showing that kind of color or a chocolate or parti's, black soft coated yorkies but that is just me please those that have these colors that I mentioned is in no way saying you don't do it unethically just the way I practice in my showing/breeding practices. I love my black soft coated yorkie she's the love of my life and she's spayed. I know so many exhibitors that say their yorkies have that silk coat and they actually believe they are a silk coated yorkie but are a soft black coated yorkie it's so obivious it's those that kind that need to take off the blinders and see it for what it really is. As for dying a coat just remember this....what one thinks is a dark steel blue may actually be black so really color is all in the eye of the beholder....so that's why I take health, structure/topline and movement over coat color anyday and again the coat just being the icing on the cake!! And again, I'd rather lose to a dyed yorkie than one that has a crippled rear, bad front and bad topline JMHO!
Donna Bird
Brooklynn's Yorkshire Terriers
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