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flyorkies · 12-08-2005, 07:58 AM

i thought it was an interesting story but i feel we do need a breed standard. most of that story was about inbreeding. good breeders dont inbreed as far as im concerned. as far as breed standard i recently discover my yorkies have faults and should not be bred. i dont mind that they are perfectly healthy but they did come with full registrations and truthfully i would like breeding to be monitered in some way. if i had just said who cares and didnt post pics on yorkie talk i would have had horrible looking pups maybe with more defects or flaws then the 2 i have. see i feel i paid alot of money for my babies just to find out they have faults that arent the common ones that i had learned about before buying. now it was alot of money to me but it really wasnt becuase a yorkie that grows up to totally represent the breed standard is 1. hard to find and 2. are about triple the price that i paid. now i love my pet quality yorkies but i feel kind of cheated in a way almost lied to.i feel that with the amout of yorkies for sale in the newspaper in florida and online maybe there is 1 or 2 that will represent breed standard. learning is what ive been doing and i have learnded almost everyone i know or i have seen with a yorkie in my area has a bad representation of the breed. probrably great pets like mine but not breed standard and they paid even more for theirs then i did for mine. its a crude reality once you do your research. too many people dont, like me i thought i knew alot but i was definitly wrong about that. these people have no idea they are walking around with 3,000 dollar pet quality yorkies all because a breeder told them it was a great yorkie and they spent alot. as a purchaser of a yorkie i feel that the breed standard is great to have but it needs to be enforced to keep the yorkie quality or its truthfully a neverending battle and the yorkie will look like a poodle in 20 or 30 years.

12-08-2005, 07:58 AM	#20
flyorkies Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: florida Posts: 177	i thought it was an interesting story but i feel we do need a breed standard. most of that story was about inbreeding. good breeders dont inbreed as far as im concerned. as far as breed standard i recently discover my yorkies have faults and should not be bred. i dont mind that they are perfectly healthy but they did come with full registrations and truthfully i would like breeding to be monitered in some way. if i had just said who cares and didnt post pics on yorkie talk i would have had horrible looking pups maybe with more defects or flaws then the 2 i have. see i feel i paid alot of money for my babies just to find out they have faults that arent the common ones that i had learned about before buying. now it was alot of money to me but it really wasnt becuase a yorkie that grows up to totally represent the breed standard is 1. hard to find and 2. are about triple the price that i paid. now i love my pet quality yorkies but i feel kind of cheated in a way almost lied to.i feel that with the amout of yorkies for sale in the newspaper in florida and online maybe there is 1 or 2 that will represent breed standard. learning is what ive been doing and i have learnded almost everyone i know or i have seen with a yorkie in my area has a bad representation of the breed. probrably great pets like mine but not breed standard and they paid even more for theirs then i did for mine. its a crude reality once you do your research. too many people dont, like me i thought i knew alot but i was definitly wrong about that. these people have no idea they are walking around with 3,000 dollar pet quality yorkies all because a breeder told them it was a great yorkie and they spent alot. as a purchaser of a yorkie i feel that the breed standard is great to have but it needs to be enforced to keep the yorkie quality or its truthfully a neverending battle and the yorkie will look like a poodle in 20 or 30 years.