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Originally Posted by yorkiekist  Actually, its the YTCA that could give a rats a** about the parti breeders. And they are definately not afraid of the colorful yorkshire terrier club and its band of parti breeders either. I never said that being a parti breeder made you a bad person, I just dont agree with your ethics as a responsible yorkei breeder. |
This is a breed club, not a coat color club. Just because a group of people shun this color that's coming from two tradational colored yorkies, doesn't mean that the dogs should be shunned or banned - they are Yorkshire Terriers regardless of their color. If the standards says for showing, that Steel blue and tan are the only correct colors, that's fine but if color is more important to the breed then being the offspring of 2 Yorkshire terriers, than maybe the name of the club should be the blue and tan terrier club and not the Yorkshire terrier club?
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Originally Posted by yorkiekist And for your information, Joan Gordon was actually on the committee that got the color DQ passed, says that there is no recessive gene for spotting and has also written a booklet on that subject, available on the YTCA site. She has also written an extensive history of the breed. . |
People can't wish recessive genes away, if they are there, they are there regardless of what people say or try to dictate. I am aware that she has written extensive history of the breed (it's on YTCA's site) but was unaware that that she's written a booklet on the subject of no recessive genes for spotting in the breed. Could you send me the link for the booklet, I haven't seen it on the site before? I was also not aware that she was on the committee that got the color DQ'd.
It's strange how we have 2 different written accounts, one from the parti breeder directly involved with the investigation and a second from someone who passed away in 2005, both letters saying that Joan Gordon/Wildweir told AKC that they (Wildweir) had produced parti in their litters. This information isn't something that I'm making up and I have no reason to believe that 2 seperate people who probably didn't know each other, wrote basically the same information about what was told to them by an AKC investigator.
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Originally Posted by yorkiekist I am sure that you parti breeders assume that YTCA has a gun to her head as well.lol I doubt very much if she did that big a flip-flop on the issue. |
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Nope, don't think she did a big flip flop, just think she didn't want to see the color in the breed. This doesn't mean that she didn't produce off colors in her breedings.