[JeanieK]

Originally Posted by yorkiekist

I am only going to say this as an observer and this is what is concerning me about alot of the parti breeders.(not all, but most are breeders on the parti web-sites and some are members that post here)

I have looked at your pictures. Granted they are very cute. OK, here comes the BUT!!LOL
It seems to me that most of you are only breeding for color only. The conformation of the dogs is sub-standard, to say the least. I see roached backs, sparse hair, long noses, down faces, bat ears, bad fronts and rears, poor ears sets, loppy ears, low tail sets, etc. And these are your breeding stock! I fail to see how you are going to improve your stock breeding the quality that I have seen. I am not looking at just color either. Its the conformation that, if it were me and these were all blue and tan dogs, I would spay and neuter most of them.
I am not wanting to start any arguments, I am just observing. As is said, people tend to get kennel blindness after a while. And breeding for one triat is not a good idea. The rest of the dogs gets lost.
I know, I know. There are tons of standard breeders that breed sub-standard Yorkies. They are everywhere. But (theres that word again!LOL), you are wanting to show you dogs, hopefully someday, and I cant think of many breeder/exhibitors of Yorkies that would have started with the quaility you advertise.

As I said I dont want to start arguments. These are some serious matters that some of the parti breeders need to think about. Most of those faults I mentioned will takes years and generations to breed out.
Hoepfully you will take this as constructive critisizm.

It is the same critisizim we have given ourselves. This is not new to us. But most of us are still in our first generation of breeding the partis. We are learning, and searching for the right dogs to breed to, in order to improve their looks.

We are doing the same thing that other breeders are doing. Working on establishing and improveing our own lines. It's all a work in progress. But for the parti breeders it is more difficult, since finding good quality dogs to breed to is not easy.

Which leads to the next issue of people showing the carriers. They are doing so, to get breed worthy dogs in order to improve the quality of the parti.

Perhaps some day, if we can produce partis that are correct in every way except color, people will start to change their opinions.