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Originally Posted by bjh  A light coat or black is now a disqualifying fault (unfortunately), a bad rear, bad front, bad topline, etc are faults but are not disqualifying faults unless the dog is crippled or is a real mess and those are usually excused, not disqualified. Most faults are obvious to the judges eye but I really don't know if judges can tell if a dog is dyed or not since I have never done that. There is no perfect Yorkie and they all have faults, some more than others. I totally agree that soundness is of the utmost importance but if you have a ring full of quality Yorkies then the dyed Yorkie should not be winning as the best representative of the breed if there are equally sound dogs in the ring. Maybe it is not unethical since so many show people (not just Yorkies breeders) alter the appearance of their show dogs but I consider it cheating, just like athletes that use steroids, many get away with it so does that make it okay? If you want my honest opinion, I wish the Yorkshire Terrier standard did not put so much emphasis on coat color so breeders and handler would not be so compelled to color their dogs. The emphasis should be on soundness and coat quality and texture. JMHO |
Wish it were a perfect world but unfortunately it's not
More judges than you realize can tell when a yorkie is colored but again I prefer a sound healthy dog over whether or not it's colored JMHO but you are right too much emphasis is put on the coat color and not the structure and soundness of the dog. But, to me color is just like putting on make up for a pagent but doesn't affect the breeding stock and soundness and health issues...yes you'd be correct it's cheating but I've been beaten by several colored dogs but that didn't bother me because the dogs that beat me were sound and beautiful anyway and not saying my dog isn't just as sound and beautiful the one that beat me was a nice dog....even tho it was colored...
Donna