Every breed has a standard, and once you vary the standard too much you are watering down what makes the yorkie look like a yorkie. Some people would like to change the coat type; others would like to change the ears to include longer floppier ears. There's always going to be people who want something different. The Biewer people are trying to get recognition as a separate breed and AKC status; will people be telling them to include Yorkies without the piebald markings? Many people love the Biewers, and they have very strict standards, the Parti, on the other hand, is just a recessive gene that occasionally shows up when a puppy has received the recessive gene from each parent. There is no standard or special makings, and all Parti's look different. The YTCA frowns on breeding the recessive, and that's their choice. Maybe if there were lots and lots of great looking Yorkies who met standard and were healthy, the YTCA would open the dorr to more variations. For now, there doesn't seem to be an overload of the standard. By dog breed standards the Yorkshire Terrier is a relatively new breed, and keeping tighter restrictions for a while is probably best for the breed. |