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Originally Posted by yorkiekist  The "big deal" is that if you keep trying to change the parent breed standard, the breed will no longer look like the breed anymore. Reputable breeders breed to the breed standard and not to the latest popular fault being purposely breed most likely for the $$$$. The parti/off color breeders are doing just this all the while spouting their version of the history of the breed and basically telling you that the parent club(YTCA) is full of sh*t. Lets say that drop ears are now the big popular rage. You will then get irresponsible breeders breeding for that fault as well. Popularity=$$$. Simple economics.I guess you have to be a breed fancier to completely understand it. I am not saying you arent and I hope I explained this ok. |
Parent breed standards have been changed repeatedly over the lifetime of registered dogs. Adding the parti color does not change a thing about the traditional colored yorkshire terrier. The colors are part of the original makeup of the modern yorkshire terrier, and that fact has not changed. It has only recently been brought out in the open.
The number one leading authority, in the US, on the yorkshire terrier has admitted to the AKC that they were getting parti colored in their puppies 40 years ago. But no one wanted to admit that their Champion dog produced off colored puppies. To do so would have ruined their reputation. So those puppies were never registered, they were given away or destroyed, and kept secret.