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Originally Posted by TammyJM  Make money???   Selling parti/carriers and encouraging someone to breed them?? Nancy, you are doing a lot of assuming in this thread. I also do not know of anyone breeding like you said that the parti breeders are doing. I cannot speak for others, but NO, I did NOT sell Livi's first puppy with breeding rights...nor do I plan to with her current three. I have had people PM and ask me about the girls and selling them with full registration....I have actually discouraged them from risking their female's life and have also told them that my puppies will not be sold with full rights. As for making money......  :eek : I am soooooooo far in the hole it's crazy!!!!! Just what I spent to keep Livi and her babies alive in the first week would have bought me a very nice quailty Yorkie. Not to mention, every other expense that I have had and will have.
I don't know why you seem to think that parti breeders are so awful. I get that you appreciate the standard looking Yorkie, but that does not mean those of us that love the beautiful tricolor are horrible breeders. The parti breeders that I personally know are wonderful, trustworthy people. I cannot say that about the show breeder that I purchased my traditional girl from. |
First of all, I am glad you do not sell your dogs with breeding rights; this is one of the qualities in a breeder that I think is good. I am surprised so many of you are surprised about this though; you do realize that there are breeders who breed for profit? I'm not saying that you will ever make a dime breeding Parti's, in fact, it could turn out to be a very poor investment. I'm only saying that is the motivation factor for many. It is a fad among many breeds, not just yorkies. Not just puppy millers breed for profit. I don't think most breeders breed for the right reasons, not just parti breeders, so I'm not singling parti breeders out.
I never said that the people who breed Parti's were not nice people, their qualities as a human being has very little to do with how they breed. We all know examples of very religious wonderful people, being bad breeders. I'm concerned because so many of you seem to be in denial about the problem, you act like the only people who sell Parti's are your friends and members of Yorkietalk. I have not attacked anyone on a personal level. I wish I didn't feel so strongly about breeding to standard, and why it's important, many of you parti breeders do seem like wonderful people, I wish you wouldn't take my opinions personally. There does seem to be a conscientious group of parti breeders on this forum, however,
am I supposed to change my viewpoints because I like you? I do not believe we know enough about the recessive gene yet to breed for it, many maladies attach themselves to the recessive gene, instead of denying this, I hope you keep in contact with puppy buyers, and let others know if something starts cropping up. I also don't think that the Yorkshire terrier has not been a breed long enough to introduce new colors. As a breed, it's only been around about 100 years, and not that many yorkies are being bred with a proper coat. The yorkie standard is a very difficult one to obtain, genetics wise, you need so many things working together. On the other hand, the parti color is NOT a difficult one to obtain. Once you have a parti colored dog, it cannot produce a dog without the parti gene. I guess I could see a time in the future, where it was easy to get a great healthy example of the breed, and at that point I could see why we might like to introduce more variety. I really don't see this now, I wish all breeders were more interested in health, but I don't think more variety in looks should be introduced until we get the health factor under control.