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Originally Posted by kalina82  so if I were looking for that perfect puppy from championed parents i'd want them to be AKC champions instead of UKC chamions, right?
It seems like its easier to get a UKC championship then an AKC championship. like the UKC isn't as valuable as the AKC one. if something can be gotten in a weekend, instead of many weekends it can't be as valuable. Having both championships is great, but if you were to want one it would have to be the AKC one.
I've been on this site for 3 years now constantly reading and learning about the yorkie. I've seen numerous websites of breeders of all kinds, plus websites with just information on the breed. I've seen something on a few websites and mentioned by a few here that i always question. The majority of breeders on here all show AKC but there are a few that show only UKC even tho AKC is available to them. So these breeders show their dogs UKC and get them championed fairly young because its so easy. These young dogs aren't finished growing and changing (yorkies can continue to change up until 2 years old or later right?). So what happens if the dog becomes a champion at say 14 months old while its still growing and changing and then when its finished growing its not that perfect specimen of the breed? Now this person has this championed yorkie that she wanted to breed but this champion is no longer champion material? its no longer within standard for whatever reason. But she breeds it anyway and proclaims that the puppies are from a champion dam or sire. isn't this misleading to the buyer?
do you get what i'm saying or does this just not make sense at all. its just been in my head for a while so i thought i'd ask. i hope i'm not offending anyone cause that's not what i'm after. |
The reason it is possible to get a championship in one weekend is that many of UKC weekends have six shows. two shows a day for three days usually. You need 100 points and three competetion wins for a UKC championship. I can't stand it when I see people putting down those of us that do show and value our UKC championship. it certainly hasn't been easier for me and I worked very hard. I really like it because of the family atmosphere. I have shown both venues. I also like being able to walk my dog into the ring and know that my dog has a chance and the win will not automatically go to Ms. So and So because she is a professional handler. That's all I am going to say because I can get on a roll when I hear people putting down how easy it is to finish a dog in UKC. The standards are the same and the judges have gotten very strict. They had enough sense to interpet the new color guidlines the correct way, the way they were meant to be taken and give puppies a longer time to change instead of DQ'ing six month old puppies the way some judges in AKC were doing. UKC is not availalbe in every state. I wish it were. it is really big a lot of places. I imagine I better hush now while I am ahead
