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Originally Posted by oceansoracle  I want to say welcome to the group! I have been on YT for a while and I must say that I apologoze for some of these snobby, judgemental, know it alls who can leave a bitter taste in anyones mouth. I am so sorry that you have been met with these types of comments and disdain. The most important thing is to love and care for your babies! There are a some of us on here who are actually nice and non-judgemental and love ALL dogs regardless of breed, registry, or breed jargon. Therefore, if you would like to join me and Hugo, feel free to add us to your friends list.
I think that the administrators of this website should place another sticky of proper YT ettiquite becuase all this bantering and badgering is unacceptable. |
ooohhh thats not fair... yes some on here are more technically inclined and feel informing people of the correct ways breeders should be will only HELP the breed and continue their long life span and overall general health.
HOWEVER, I do believe there is NOT ONE person on who here who would not love ANY dog and take any dog in and give it a loving good home. Each and every person on here caring enough to KNOW this breed and be soooo well informed of their nuances, quirks and health would NEVER not have compassion to any living animal (esp dogs) even if they did not have good registry.
To the OP, I know sometimes it feels like an attack on your breeder... do you know the history of the Golden Retriever? Well the Yorkie is the #2 most popular dog breed now. This means that there is a HIGH demand for them. This means any Tom, Dick or Harry can breed and make money selling yorkie pups. This also means that in order to pump out more pups for more revenue that cross breeding is going on, pups too young to breed, breeding runts with runts for ultra small (as they refer to them as 'teacup yorkies') is running rampart. When this happens, the world/nation as a whole actually HURTS the breed by introducing genetic mutations. This leads to the decline of the breed as a whole. Yes, your pups and your world may not feel the effects of it, but when you look into the eyes of your babies, imagine there are MILLIONS more out there that have those eyes, but not that life. They are sick, dying younger, on meds, have knee problems, liver shunt, pancreatitis, all bc a TON of not so great breeders decided to cash in on a TREND. This trend will fade and when it does the world will be left with a breed of dog that is only a shadow of the greatness it used to be. LOVING your dogs, and placing them in good homes to good people does not make a person an ethical breeder, it does not make them a bad person though, it makes them a kind person who perhaps should be more aware of their breeding practices and what is best for this breed of dog.
So yes, have fun here, post pics of your gorgeous pups, join the fun threads, but do not turn a blind eye to the truth of the matter. I understand you not wanting to talk about that 'technical garble' and that's ok, you don't have to, and I am SOOO SORRY that your post turned to this. I had an idea it would when I first read it.
I hope that my words do not offend you at all... they are meant to explain the seriousness of the compassion found here.
