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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Yes exactly, very few yorkies do meet standard, and that is exactly why I always encourage people to support those breeders who breed to standard. If more Yorkies meant standard, this wouldn't be so important. I really think "standard" is an amazing thing to behold, and I'm not sure many people have actually seen one in person. It just seems like all the breeders have an excuse for not breeding to standard, some say their dog doesn't meet standard, but has such a great personality, some say they could only afford the dogs they have, some want to breed rare colors because they have a marketing advantage, and this last reason bothers me the most. Even newbie breeders are encouraged to buy parti carriers to add to their "lines," without any regard for the dogs suitability to breed other then it's a Parti carrier. |
Why do you assume that those who breed for the off colors are doing it for marketing advantage and not for the love of the color?
I do not believe that the YTCA has the right to dictate which colors live and which colors die. They have the right to dictate whcih ones they will allow in their club and in their shows but beyond that they have no rights.
The parti colors have been showing up in champion lines tracing back to the Wildweir lines. At a time when most purebred dog breeders were show dog breeders, they were forced to cull the off colors. It does not mean they weren't producing them, it just means they were not admitting to it. And you can bet that they did not neuter their champion sire just because there was a white puppy in the litter. Perhaps thast is where the practice came to limit registration. they did not want their nasty little secret to get out.
Times have changed and the non show breeders have freedoms that the show breeders do not have. That does not mean that they are breeding inferior dogs.
The fact that the parti colors come from champion lines indicates that they have come from some of the top specimens of the YT breed.
The Biewers have a standard because the German YT breed club did not deny them the right to start their own club, like the YTCA does. Not because they are any better or different than the partis. I find it interesting that you approve of the Biewer, which is also clearly against the YTCA. It DQ's the color not the name.
The AKC does not accept the Biewer as a breed of it's own, because the YTCA would not allow that either. Biewer breeders cannot even agree among themselves if they are yorkies or not.
And finally, we do have a standard set for the parti, it just does not limit the color. Everything else is the same as set by the YTCA. There are many breeds that do not set a color standard.