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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  I think if people are calling parti, chocolate and golden "non standards" or "off standard", then yes, you are then putting them in a larger, general category of all yorkies who don't meet the standards, so I do consider them "the same." Off standard is off standard, no matter what off color they are; no matter what other issue causes them to be considered off standard. Or are you saying that some off colors are considered to be more "off standard" than other off colors are, thus they should not be put into the "same" category together?  |
Yes, that is exactly what I was saying. The dogs you mentioned...wrong shading, the steel blue being to light, or other issues that cause them to be off standard can often be produced from a pairing of dam and sire that
were representations of the breed standard. With the intent being to produce dogs that meet the standard and the possibility was there. (Or for that matter, dogs with minor flaws against the standard can often be bred to produce offspring that meet it.)
To me, there is difference between that scenario and breeding dogs that you KNOW won't meet the standard...that it is your goal from the very beginning. Thus why I said I didn't think they could be put into the same category. But I guess that is something we will just have to agree to disagree on.
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Originally Posted by Pinehaven I was replying to your previous response, not the OP's question. |
I'm reading back over my first post--it was general information addressing partis/goldens specifically, as that was the OPs question. It wasn't derogatory, didn't condone or condemn the practice, nor did it even give any hint of what my opinion on the subject was one way or the other. So I'm not sure where the need to justify it by bringing in anything relating to standard colored Yorkies came from.
I think we are all aware of that many Yorkies being bred today are not standard, be it because of size, bite, coloring, whatever....I just didn't see where it was relevant at all to the OP's question, my response or anything that had been mentioned for that matter.