[YorkieRini]

The reason to breed is to better the breed and keep the standard in your program. If you breed for pets it usually means a lot of the physical features that are called for in the standard will be lost or compromised. I feel Yorkies have become so extremely popular in a negative way. Bad breeders, mills, etc..are doing more than their share in producing pets. I would like to see more breeding to the standard and for the betterment of this lovely breed in additon to improving the health. LP is so rampant as is LS and LCP.

When I started breeding I didn't plan on being a 'show breeder'. I had a wonderful friend make a comment that has stuck with me. She said, showing is a way to measure my breeding program. Getting the judges opinion by winning or not winning is the way to know if your breeding program is bettering the breed. For the love of my YOrkies, I consider then all to be perfect..asking a unbiased expert comparing to the standard is going ot keep me on track. So I have a puppy that I produced that I'm gonna show and see how I'm doing. I see some faults in him (I am extremely critical of my own) but I keep telling myself there is no such thing as a perfect Yorkie.

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but that's something to think about Long term with Toby. If he's good enough to breed. Does he produce those good qualities to continue the chain of the Yorkie Standard? Of course the female he is bred to does contribute. So to offer him for stud to just anything (for lack of better terms of course) may not do him justice either. Either you breed or you don't. To place an ad in teh paper or breed to your neighbors/friends Yorkie will not aid in bettering the breed. I am not saying this is what you are doing. Just giving an example of what may not work if you planned on doing it that way. What is your plan? Who would you breed him too? What are the plans for the pups? This is questions to think about.

Thanks for asking and being reseptive to all answers no matter how brutally honest they may be.

Irene