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Originally Posted by puppylove11  I could give away many secrets when is comes to enhancing your dog for the show ring. There can be many traits enhanced on a yorkie along with color. Anyone who shows would know this to be true! I have been in a ring with a member of the ytca showing a yorkie with a bad bite and obtaining their championship. I have been in a ring and seen ytca members showing a yorkie with bad patellas, low fronts, low rears, roach backs and obtaining their championship. What makes this right? The fact they are members of the ytca? When all the members of the ytca practice what they preach the breed will be better off. The last thing you should be worried about is a parti color issue. |
There will never be any club where everyone follow the rules, unethical people want to join the YTCA for the wrong reasons, and many are good at "talking the talk." The YTCA is often criticized for being too fussy or elitist in allowing people to join; yet you have pointed out the problem, if one bad apple joins the whole group is vilified. As they say, "a chain is no better than it's weakest link, but that doesn't mean that all the links are weak. There are poor breeders among AKC breeders; does that make the AKC bad, or can you generalize anything from that knowledge? A person doesn't have to belong to the YTCA to have ethics; the ethics should come first, and no group or club will make you ethical.
If people are joining the "Yorkshire Terrier Club of Ethical Hobby Breeders" in order to sell pups, then in my opinion, they wouldn't be ethical; I believe we already have enough pets.