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Originally Posted by JeanieK  If everyone just stuck to the standard, the yorkie would not even exist. The people who mixed all of those breeds to develop the yorkie, most likely ran into a lot of opposition too. |
I think at one time people were more concerned about working dogs, and were breeding for certain traits. We now have lots of established breeds and some people continue to mix breeds looking for dogs that will be excellent at certain tasks. As I said before, it depends upon the goal of the breeder, if your goal is just to produce more pets, which at one time may have been important, things have changed, and we no longer need the abundance of pets being produced.