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Originally Posted by YorkyKids Well the biggest reason is we do not know at 3 or 4 days if a dog is a pet or not.....they are virtually all the SAME. <G> For those of us who show our animals the "dirty deed" must be done at a very early age...not everyone is breeding just to produce "pets".....some breeders are trying very hard to make a better Yorkie...a breeder needs to put the dog in the show ring in order to have a accessment of the direction of her breeding program. So bottom line is not every dog born is destined to be a pet nor is every dog destined to become a show dog.....but there is no way to tell at such an early age....
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If you take the entire yorkie population of the world, the show yorkies are a very very very small percentage. The great great majority are pets. This is one of the major reasons I do not agree with the standard and feel it needs to be changed. There is not a single YTCA breeder on this forum and yet the majority of us have yorkies who had their tails docked for no other reason than archaic breed standard. What is the purpose....to better the breed? Hiw in the world do docked tails make this breed better? This is just plain wong.
To compare the pain involved with ear piercing to tail docking is not logical since the pain from the tail mutilation is so much greater and lasts so much longer. Just for the record, I did not pierce my daughter's ears until they requested it.