The one and only "reason" the YTCA breed standard exists is for people who care about showing. The "standard" calls for docked tails which I find cruel. The standard says they have to be black and tan or some variation thereof,.... I have a parti-color yorkie who came from "standard" parents and she no less of a yorkie than those that are the "standard" color. Breeders used to "cull" perfectly healthy puppies for being the wrong color according to the standard. For me that is wrong. The YTCA kicked Terri Schumsky out of the organization. The YTCA does not allow its members to be members of "pet" forums and they shun "pet" owners and anyone who is trying to gwt into breeding or showing and on and on and on.
I do not believe that anyone on here was condoning or advocating "breeding anything to anything" and not attempting to eliminate the genetic defects and other health characterisitics that it is possible to control. There are plenty of reputable breeders who do not hold strictly to the standard....they may not dock tails, they may breed parti colors or chocolates or they may like the short short snout, but that does not make them bad or in any way inferior to YTCA breeders. This is my only point.
This member has a female with a very "slight" underbite and her vet has advised her that it would be okay for her to breed her to produce pet yorkies. He or she obviouly does not feel the "fault" is a life altering one. Where is the crime? |