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Originally Posted by WalnutHill  I guess I don't get it then. If it's a different genetic make-up, then it would be a different breed, not just a color variation.
Here is a little bit of something I read from Cher Hildebrand that is very interesting. Top Parti Yorkies Genetics Parti Yorkie Parti Color Yorkshire Terrier and Biewer Yorkies
I mean, I just find the whole subject interesting. I have never personally seen a parti colored Yorkie, so I have absolutely no experience with them. I have also never met someone with one, so the only things I know about them is what I have read on this forum. I just cannot get my brain to process that parti colored Yorkies could possibly be pure-bred Yorkshire terriers.
I honestly don't even understand how they came about in the first place - even assuming that they are pure-bred Yorkies. Since they aren't the standard, why would anyone breed for that trait? And, if this coloring just "popped up" one day and breeders decided they liked it and wanted to breed for it, then why wouldn't it be accepted by the YTCA? I don't understand why there is a controversy as far as the YTCA is concerned if there is "proof" that there was no cross-breeding involved to attain this coloring. |
To understand you would need to research the history of the breed in the beginning.
The dogs started out as rat catchers they were not bred to a standard.
They were bred back to other dogs who also had good rat catching skills.
No records were kept at this time of who or what breeds were bred together.
It wasn’t until the show era started that they started breeding for a certain type of dog.
But by this time there were already different breeds mixed in with the founding dogs.
Even the show breeders were secretive about how they were breeding,
They didn’t want competitors to know how they were producing a certain look.
Records were kept but since there was no DNA back then,
Who’s to say what other type of dogs were being used together.
There are strong feeling that a Maltese was use for it long silky coat texture.
The old books written talks about white dogs with spotty patches of gray were produce but never went to far
As the Show era already had a white dog the Maltese.
Along with the founding dogs strongly stated as the main dogs.
The Clydesdale / Paisley and Old english black and tan.
There were other dogs also thought to be in the breed.
Ones being the Skye since Kershaw's Kitty a Sky was bred to Swift's Old Crab, a cross-bred Scotch Terrier
Skye Terrier produced colors ranging in the chocolate, fawn, white and tans,
This could also explain where the chocolate and gold colors come from.
The different colors has popped up for years.
Breeders just killed them because they were considered a flawed dog.