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Originally Posted by kpstoybox  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. |
Very well said! Were not the Biewers a parti yorkie in Germany? They are imported, so does that make them any better or any different than the parti yorkies here? If the Biewers took the best of thier stock and bred that to the best normal colored yorkie and developed the Biewer, does that not still make them a colored yorkie? I'm confused on this one.