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Originally Posted by 107barney  Being a YTCA breeder didn't mean a whole lot to me initially when I was looking for a dog. I just wanted to buy a dog from someone who cared about something other than money in raising and selling dogs. Having been down the road of two puppy mill dogs and the problems inherent in poor breeding including financial and emotional costs,
I don't know about the politics of the YTCA or any other club for that matter and as a buyer I really don't care. |
I think I understand that point of view. However I would like to say that the National and Regional Breed clubs, do their utmost to preserve the breed. They are the ultimate guardians of this breed, and it does heavily include the health risks of Yorkies. Their members try to preserve this beautiful breed in looks, in conformation, in temperament, and in health. Without their efforts, their education of breeders, the Yorkshire Terrier might be in dire straits.
I think that as an owner of this wonderful breed, as I am, you may find your way to seeing the importance of a National club, and support their efforts in ways that you can.
For most pet buyers don't understand the importance of Breed Clubs. Quite simply without them, any purebred dog, might fade away into cross bred dilution, and insignifance.
We are usually a relatively small group of ppl, passionate about our breed, and spend countless hours, researching, training, teaching, and learning. These are countless hours of volunteer work, whose only purpose is to protect our breed, to improve the breed, to see this beautiful breed continue to thrive and to improve.
We do this first for our love of the breed, and if you have purchased a pup from an "ethical" breeder be they a member or not of YTCA, they for sure have tried to keep up with the latest in research, the YTCA's guidelines for breeding, have health tested all their sires and dams as per those guidelines.
So in summary the clubs of any purebred dog are a huge part of you getting a healthy pup.