[TammyJM]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

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.

First of all, my dogs were not ever an "investment"....they are part of our family! This statement of yours confuses me, "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.". It's the last part of it that bothers me. Do you honestly think that a person's moral make-up has NOTHING to do with their breeding practices??? How in the world can you really believe that?! I am someone that believes that a person's heart shines through their actions. I firmly believe that my "qualities as a human being" has EVERYTHING to do with how I have bred!! I can respect your opinion on certain things but feel you are way off base on this one, though.

As for parti breeders....no, a person should not trust all of them....no more than one should put full faith in a show breeder. You keep saying that we are introducing more variety into the breed, but the tri-color has been there....we are not adding some new gene. It's the YTCA that created what they desired the standard to be...they are the ones that formed the "look" of the Yorkshire Terrier. However, just because it is in writing does not mean that the genetics of the parti just disappear.