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Originally Posted by briana smith  When dogs have faults, they can't be shown or bred. Faults are, what ever is not on the AKC standard for yorkies. Some faults that can arise are off-bites, over the standard 7 pounds, curly coats, ect. If a yorkie in that line has a fault shouldn't be bred. If those yorkies are bred, they carry on that family line, and the yorkies produced from that line will most likely have those faults as well. The only reason for breeding is to better the breed.
I think what Mardelin was saying is, that each breeder has a certain type of "look" they are breeding for. Whether they like yorkies with lightly shorter muzzles or yorkies with super glossy hair, each breeder's type of "look" is different.
Please YTers correct me if I'm wrong.
Do you want to breed her?
And just curious, what breeder did you get her from? |
Incorrect, a fault can be as simple as a bad head carriage, a gait that is not wonderful, tail set just a wee bit low, a topline that is off.......ears to tall, a bit easty/westie, etc......I was told early on, that if you can find 3 faults in a dog, don't show it, because the judge will find more. Accept the faults you can live with, try to correct the ones you can't, by finding a stud that can compliment your female. Now it may be fault that may take several generations to breed it out and does the female have enough of what you want to take the time and effort to do it. Breeding is not just putting dogs together to have puppies, especially yorkies. You can't breed yorkies phenotype to phenotype like with poodles and know what you're gonna get. There's studying genetics, pedigrees (knowing each dog in that pedigree backward and forward); everything from temperament, structure, you name it. But, remember there is no perfect dog. That's why we breed, for the challange of improving on what we have.
For instance I have a female that went a bit light, and led with her head in the ring. Some days she showed like a dream and others she'd look at me like I'd lost mind for wanting to take her into the ring. When I bred her, I bred her to a stud with excellent head carriage, great showmanship and dark. I got what I wanted, he complimented her well and corrected what I wanted to correct.