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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I don't think we should compare breeding dogs with humans; we don't "breed" for humans in that way, and nature has nothing to do with it, breeders choose what traits to breed for. At one time, most people just owned mutts a little of this and a little of that, and there is nothing wrong with this, many were beautiful healthy dogs. But what if you wanted a dog just like your neighbors dog, what then? Purebred breeding came about because certain dogs were good at certain tasks. Each breed then developed a standard, or a recipe on what a perfect example of the breed should look like, and it's temperament. If a breeder never breeds to standard, it wouldn't take that many generations before a yorkie wouldn't process any of the qualities that set the yorkie apart from other breeds. In other words, it would eventually look just like a mutt, it might have the short hair of the Chihuahua, the curly hair of a poodle, the droopy ears of the Maltese, but it would still be pure bred. Purebred only means that the parents were purebred; it doesn't mean that the parents actually were a good representative of the breed. If you really familiarize yourself with standard, you will understand that the yorkie standard is very difficult to obtain, but it's an extraordinary dog to behold. Even those that don't meet standard are really cute, but until every breeder can easily obtain standard and can also produce a healthy puppy, I say we avoid producing for more variety. The whole idea of purebreds is less variety, and one good example should very much look and be like another good example. If you want more variety, you could go for a different breed, lots of variety there. No matter what the breed, I always encourage buyers to support those breeders who understand the importance of breeding to standard. |
How would this be fair to those of us who truly love and want only the best for the parti yorkie?
At least 50% (probably many more then that) of the AKC traditional colored yorkies that are being bred today fall short (in some way or another) of the standard set forth by the YTCA. Just one look on Puppyfind will prove this fact. Why should my love of...and desire to better the parti yorkie...be determined by the amount of breeders who are not now, nor never will be breeding any color yorkie to a standard?
Many breed clubs have allowed variety classes for dogs that did not meet the standard set for the breed. The beagle has one for size. Both standards for the breed are identical except for height! Just two inches of height earned one of the sizes it's own variety class to be shown seprate from the other size. Imagine that?
So why can't those of us...who truly love the parti for it's color (and not how many pups we can produce to sell)...keep the dream that one day it will be granted show status with it's own color variety class? The American cocker spaniel has THREE color varieties and they are not shown in the same ring until group.
That is my hopes and dreams for the American Parti Yorkie.
But as BJH already stated so eloquently...the variety will need a lot of serious breeders who are more in love with the color (more so then money it can make) and start breeding the parti yorkie to a standard comparable to the show yorkie of today before that can ever happen. And right now...sadly...I don't see that happening anytime soon.