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Originally Posted by Cerise

I am not a breeder and will never be, but l want to add my opinion here.

However, myself and many other people do have a serious interest in this breed, and of it's future. The baby doll face is cute but breeding to change the look of the Yorkshire Terrier even more, and making it smaller than it is all ready, is careless, selfish, and becoming an obsession. We all like the look of beautiful things and having something unique, but that doesn't mean that it is of better quality, or in the best interest of the breed. These baby doll face tiny dogs may have silky coats but they may be short lived and have other health issues not mentioned.

There are many women who want this baby doll face look, for their future Yorkies. So there are now many breeders going for the green ($$$) in breeding them. I've seen some beautiful Yorkies with a slight baby doll face, but they have been standard size and not as extreme. Changing the shape of the skull IS NOT good and along with the tiny size, will bring about many more serious issues in the future.

It amazing how humans constantly think they are in their right to perfect something that was already a good thing. This constant bothering on a high breed/show level is what was portrayed on the BBC-Pedigree Dogs Exposed documentary last week. If you want to perfect something in the Yorkshire Terrier breed, use common sense and perfect the HEALTH, not cutesiness. The Yorkie rightly owns that image already!

Am I mistaken, or wasn't the Yorkshire Terrier originally a much larger dog ?? I also read that most Yorkies had a wooly/cottony coat. Haven't people bred to change the Yorkie for years - I believe this has happened already. To say that people shouldn't change the Yorkie seems a bit funny to me.