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Originally Posted by gemy  So a breeder who wants great working ability and temperament who also wants to "show" has a great challenge. Not only will you keep your dogs in show coat condition, but you must work with your mating dogs, earn the working titles. That is a whole lot of time money and energy. But so very worth it.
This breeder might take a poorer ear set, or lighter black coat, to breed if that dog has excellent proven working abilities. Of course no good working dog can last long, without sound bone and structure, and health checks are necessary and mandatory. |
I think a breeder of working class dogs, truly interested in both aspects of showing, conformation and working classes, would be more likely to maintain separate dogs for their perspective classes rather than have one dog that does it all, much for the reasons you stated, and wouldn't, isn't, that true for Yorkies? I don't see one way or the other as a fault to the breed. I see conformation classes as a visual example of what the breed should look like or standard if you will. If you are looking for a physical example of what the breed can and does do, you obviously are going to be looking at different dogs in a different setting. I do think it is possible to have one dog that does it all, but I think that is the exception, not the rule. A champions is a champion in their perspective field for what they were bred or trained to do and in the setting they are doing it in.