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Originally Posted by Pinehaven

My thoughts are, why not allow and accept the color genes that were introduced years ago through the unregistered/non pedigreed foundation stock that started this breed? These recessive color genes are in many of our yorkies; it just takes the right breeding (carrier to carrier) to get the off color to show up. Being off color, doesn't make the yorkie any less a yorkie - they have the same breeding and bloodlines as their accepted traditional colored parents and siblings have.

This is a breed registry, not a coat color registry! Off colors have been showing up since the early 1900's, as well as showing up in highly regarded and sought after bloodlines. We are not trying to change the beautiful yorkie, only trying to get people to understand genetics better; how recessive genes work and then hopefully people will not think the same way as they did back in the early 1900's when science and genetics was not understood.

Well said!!!