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Originally Posted by yorkiekist  The ignor list is a WONDERFUL THING!!LOL
Glad you asked the question though. Us died in the wool Yorkie fanciers do have strong opinions on color and back up the YTCA standard 100%. The parti people, choco lovers, and blonds will not change the standard. There have been way to many unethical and irresponsible breeders in the past and now its impossible to DNA or unravel what damage that has been done to this breed. I suggest reading articles and books by the Gordon/Bennett twins. They were the gurus of this breed and responsible, for the most part, bringing them recognised in this country. Their entire life was Yorkies!! No one has done more research about them that they have and no one has as much hands on experience than they did. |
The Gordon/Bennett twins are of the Wildweir prefixed kennel? According to the e-mail correspondence I have from one of the parties involved in the Nikkos investigation, Wildweir
was the one who told AKC they had more parti's than the Nikkos lines but that they got "rid" of them.
The parti coloring in a number of "thought to be outcross lines" are all tracing back to one particular Wildweir dog. I don't think there is more than one "old time" breeder with the Wildweir name? Once you put 2 and 2 together, I tend to lean toward what the research, documentation and pedigrees are pointing to.
I guess only the parties involved would know the answer for sure, the investigators from AKC, the parti owners fighting for registration privileges and the old time breeders that AKC interviewed about parti color showing up in their past/early litters.