 Multi-colored terriers
I understand your point but as I wrote, The Paisley Terrier weighing up to 16 LBS is alot different then some or most of our Yorkies today....
I see alot of women with teeny tiny Yorkies weighing only 3-4 LBS.
I don't think thats what the original breeder had in mind...My point is.... you don't think multi-colored Yorkies would improve the breed but teeny 3# yorkies are ok.
What would the difference be in the color or the weight???
The clysdale Terrier...This breed, originally exhibited as Skye Terriers, are simply the more silky-haired specimens of this variety. Skye Terrier enthusiasts have always regarded them as bad-coated specimens, more fitted for the drawing-room than the cairns, just as Fox Terrier experts would regard a soft-coated WireHaired as a bad Fox Terrier. The silky-coated dog, however, has his devotees, and along in the eighties a division was made in the Skye Terrier classes, the hard-coated, long and low variety being accorded, by weight of public opinion, the title of Skye Terrier, to which their character, working fitness, and tradition gave them an irresistible claim,, while the leggier and more silky-coated specimens were given the name of Clydesdale or Paisley Terriers. Since then the Clydesdale fanciers have developed the differences in the two dogs and by selection have cultivated the silkiness and lighter colors of the coat, which they have made a sine qua non of the variety. In all other essentials the character and conformation of the two varieties are practically one and the same. The coat of the Clydesdale should be long, straight, and silky; in both texture, color, and quality it should resemble that of the best Yorkshire Terriers, which has been largely used in its manufacture.
The Clydesdale Terrier was a small, silk-coated dog with shades of blue and tan and weighing up to eighteen pounds. The Clydesdale was extinct by the end of World War I.
The Paisley terrier was a small, silky-coated dog of various shades of blue and light blue, weighing up to sixteen pounds. One interesting aspect of this breed is that it once was considered it’s own breed until the clydesdale eventually merged with the paisley terrier to become a single breed.
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