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Originally Posted by gaiasdaughter00  my questions is why are breeders breeding them saying they are so special if they are not according to the ytca? i am really not trying to start any drama or anything i am just curious. |
The short answer is that many breeders breed to make money, they are selling dogs, not improving the breed, they don't care what the YTCA or any other breed club says, they breed for public demand, and will stop breeding when they can't sell their dogs anymore.
This is the long answer:
Every dog breed has a written standard, it just a written description of how a dog of this particular breed should look and act. What sets one breed apart from another? It's the standard, and a good breeder understands the importance of breeding to standard. I mean your dog may not have every quality of standard, but it has enough that we know what breed it is. In my opinion, a good breeder isn't breeding to just provide pets to people, they are breeding because they love the breed, and want to see that the yorkie exists in the future.
Is a yorkie still a yorkie, if it has droopy ears, is white has kinky hair and a long nose, or does it become more of a poodle? Breeds are man-made things; a good breeder picks and chooses which qualities to breed for. The yorkie coat is one of the most difficult of all the breeds to obtain, not only must it be silky and straight, it must have a complex mixture genes that produce a type of metallic black that is nothing like anything seen in the human world. This "blue" as they refer to it should have no white in it, it often looks silvery depending upon the amount of dilute genes, but there is no white in the silver, it's just the way the light reflexes from the hair. If you take two Parti's you will always produce a parti puppy, you cannot produce a standard dog, and you don't have to worry about the proper shade of metallic or is it light or dark enough, all you need is some white hair and it's a parti. Does the parti color add anything special to the breed, I don't think so, lots of people seem to like it, but a good breeder doesn't breed to satisfy the public's latest fad. I think you should always ask yourself why a breeder is breeding, what goal are they trying to accomplish? Part of the answer will be in the price of the dog, should a parti breeder demand higher prices than someone who is breeding to standard and has the added expense of showing? I don't think so, showing is terribly expensive, and if a Parti breeder were breeding because she loved the look, the dogs would be no more expensive than other pet Yorkies.