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Originally Posted by love_me_cody  So, (I'm about to irk a few people..lol), why are some show breeders mad when people who don't show are breeding? I mean You follow a standard, Why can't they follow their own standard? At the end You are breeding for a healthy, beautiful dog that is wanted. So why get mad at them when they are doing the same thing but not to that standard but to their own? I remember when I made a thread about why yorkies was created and I remember everyone saying that now it's only to show their health, beauty, temp, etc. But Other breeders that don't show are being put down for foing the same thing you're doing but following their own standards..... LOL |
I don't think show breeders (or non show breeders or non breeders for that matter) are mad that people don't show. I think people in general get mad when people just breed willy nilly for the heck of it, for money, because they think they have "cute" dogs....basically with no long term goals, sense of purpose other than the present 'I want to's' and with complete disregard to what they are doing to the breed. We see posts on here all the time, people who didn't get the dog they thought they would, or it doesn't look like a Yorkie, it's got genetic, health issues...THAT is what happens when people "breed to their own standard' and don't follow what others have worked hard to create.
The set standard regulates a Yorkie to look a certain way, weight a certain amount and have certain characteristics. In short, the things that make it a YORKIE and set it apart from other breeds. When you are not breeding to achieve and end result that mirrors that, you aren't breeding Yorkies, you're just breeding to get dogs.
And I think that the breakdown that Tami gave was just to demonstrate the unforseen costs involved, not meant to be taken so literally.
