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Originally Posted by gaiasdaughter00  i really really really don't want to start trouble here..but if people do this for greed and basically "stupidity" (lack of a better nicer term) then why are people on here selling them proudly? tell people who have litters of them that they are blessed and so lucky? I mean i am all for giving them a home they deserve the best, but to buy them just to breed more? like i said i am new to this and i just want to be educated on the whys and what not. |
Not everyone is breeding for greed, and the “stupidity”
comes from the uneducated people who either don’t know or care to understand how recessive genes work. If more people would do their own research on the recessive color genes we see in the yorkies, they’d learn that off colors have appeared in our dogs since the beginning of the breed (through various books, news publications and other writings of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s), they’d learn that even well known, old time breeders have produced off colors in their own litters, and they’d learn that the foundation dogs who’s heritage was un-known, who began this breed may have been the “right” color but it’s anyone’s guess as to what recessive color genes they carried.
The standards were written over 100 years ago - back in the day when recessive genes were not understood like they are today. When an off color appeared in a litter then, it was thought that the wrong stud bred the bitch ... Today we know differently because both parents have to carry the off color recessive gene in order for the color to appear.
The recessive color genes have been in some of our dogs since the beginning and because this is the Yorkshire Terrier BREED, and if AKC registers colors other than blue and tan, I feel that the off colors have just as much a right to being a yorkie, as the perfect steel blue and tan yorkies have. Not all of us are out for greed, some of us are actually trying to perfect the parti (or other off color) yorkshire terrier.