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Originally Posted by Ladymom  That is not true. This is what the Yorkshire Terrier Club has to say about "parti" Yorkies: Parti-Color Yorkshire Terriers?
A brief history of the development of the Yorkshire Terrier will show that the dog was developed in the 1800’s. In England, the Waterside Terrier was often crossed with the old English terrier, a silky coated black and tan or blue and tan terrier weighing around five pounds. When crafters from Scotland came into England, they brought several “Scotch“terriers, among them the Paisley and the Clydesdale. The Paisley was a small silky coated dog in various shades of blue. The Clydesdale was a blue and tan dog with the exact color pattern as the Yorkie of today. All of these original breeds were grizzle, tan, blue, blue and tan, or black and tan. No white dog or dogs with white markings were involved in the process of developing the breed. The first Yorkshire Terriers were entered at shows as Broken Haired Scotch and Yorkshire Terriers. In the early days, dog classes were often divided by size, under five pounds and over five pounds; however, there was never a class for colors other than the blue and tan we see today. The color pattern and coat texture has bred true and has been dominate enough that the Silky Terrier evolved by crossing the Yorkshire Terrier and the Australian Terrier with basically the same coat of the of the Yorkie. http://www.ytca.org/faq.html |
It's all a matter of opinion. Black and gold adult yorkies are also off colored, yet many breeders (show and hobby) will breed this color to enhance the gold/tan coloring in their Blue and Tan dogs.
Attached is an example of how recessive genes came to be in our yorkies. This is a breed that began by dogs of unknown heritage and dogs with out pedigrees. A Group of Terriers from the 19th century, illustration by DJ Watkins - Pitchford, from the Book of Field Sports printed in 1860. Drawing depicts The Skye Terrier. The Scotch Terrier, The English Smooth Terrier, The Crossed Scotch Terrier, The Dandie Dinmont and The Bull Terrier. As noted in the above article dogs like these were some of the early foundation stock of the Yorkshire Terrier. Please see that 2 of the dogs were parti colored in this drawing.
"Swift's Old Crab" one of the foundation dogs in our breed was a Crossed Scotch Terrier ... he was the correct color (according to the YTCA) but who knows, he may have be the full sibling to the parti colored cross scotch terrier in the picture! ;-) Just because a dog looked blue and tan, doesn't mean that they don't carry recessive genes for other colors too.