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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  Not all white spots on chests means parti gene, but in our breed, parti coloring is popping out of traditional lines. My point is, some white chests may be normal but some white chests may be a result of the parti gene.
If this were a color registry that only allowed a particular color to be registered (like the pinto horse registry or palomino horse registry) that would be one thing but this is a breed registry and that should mean that any pup born out of two registered parents should have the same rights as their registered parents have, regardless of their color. |
We can go round and round with this subject for years. So what you are saying is that the parent club of the breed should not have a responsibility to protect the standard as it was written, as the founders of the breed had it written. All of their hard work and research gets thrown out the window. So does that mean that the standard should be changed everytime something off standard comes into the picture? Pretty soon, we would have a dog that doesnt even resemble a Yorkie. Might as well call it another breed. The Yorkie becomes extinct. Just as a chocolate or a no masked Rottweiler(yes, that does happen infrequently) should not be bred or shown, neither should the off colored Yorkies. Why? Because they are not within the written standard of the breed. Its not something the founders of the breed would want to be passed on or bred for. Not only are we showing against each other, we are showing against the written standard. We want our Yorkies, Skyes, Pugs, Rotts, etc to be as close to perfect to the written standard as possible. What happens to the breed if we keep adding and changing standards? It makes everything that you have worked and bred for over the years baseless and obsolete. Might as well start over with new dogs that conform to the "new" written standard and have to change breeding practices everytime something is added or taken away. Kinda pointless isnt it?