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Originally Posted by Toby's Human No not the father but it was either the grandfather, or great grandfather. I am not too worried about this issue. I just love my baby! Maybe she didn't say champion, maybe a show dog??? I will find out when we send in for his pedigree.
But can you please tell me what people are looking for when they look for a stud?
Also are they supposed to be checked for STD's Everytime they mate?
What makes them spray all the time?
Why are they not good companion dogs?
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You will learn a lot here and get many different opinions from different people so just know to take it all in and sift through it and use what makes sense to you. I am not a breeder and I have only owned yorkies for about ten months now but I have done a lot of research and I do own 4 so I have met and spoken to a lot breeders and read a lot of books as well as everything on here for the last 6 months or so. I am obsessed with the breed but do not show and don't think I could ever breed, at least not a female because of the risk to the dog.
I do not agree that stud dogs do not make good companion dogs, they just need good solid training, both obedience and house training. Belly bands are a godsend for some even when their males are neutered. I have two neutered males in my house and I use bellybands on them because they will mark if I don't. I find that mine will not usually "go"" with the bnds on and I let mine out throughout the day and take the bands off. I usually only have to change the pads once a day. These are neutered males though.
Intact males who are well trained and come when called can also be controlled so that they do not take off everytime a female in the neighborhood goes into heat. This can be a problem for a dog who is not trained. Yorkies are small house dogs and are usually always supervised so it is different than a big dog who is ooutside alone a great deal maybe.
You also do not need a champion dog to be able to breed him. If you are not interested in showing your dog and are only wanting to breed to a female who is being bred to produce pets then the pedigree and the championship lineage is not that important imo. There are a lot of people who disagree with me. They feel the pedigree is some guarantee that he is free of genetic defects but this is a misnomer.
What is important is that the dog be free of genetic defects to the fullest extent possible as you would not want to pass something on to a puppy. Even though your dog is perfctly healthy if there are genetic problems in his lineage you wouldn't want to breed him because a lot of those defets skip a generation or only manifest in a small percentage of the offspring.
The next thing is that he be of good temperament because if you are breeding for a pet for someone you don't want a dog with a bad temperament who may pass that personality on to his offspring.
There is also a "breed standard" that the show dog clubs like to abide by in their continuing effort to "improve or perfect the breed". Tjis standard discusses primarily physical characterisitics of the "perfect" yorkie. of course there is no perfect yorkie but these fanciers believe that a dog should not be bred unless it is close to perfct with as few "faults" as possible. The breed standard can be studied at the AKC website and the YTCA website but they want the dog to be under 7 lbs, have a straight topline or back, have a silky coat as opposed to a cottony one, have a well proportined body, as long as he is tall, ears not to big, snout not too long, black and tan coloring or blue and tan as they refer to is.
Anyway you are certainly smart in the way you are approaching your research and you will learn and make the decision that is right for you and your little guy.
Good luck!