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Originally Posted by Brooklynn  Well first of all I would register the litter if it threw a parti but it would be spayed or neutered and then the parents as well. I don't breed for parti's nor would I "KILL" "CULL" as you call it, any healthy living, breathing animal just because of color!
I'm sorry but as I see what's being posted is just trying to justify breeding off colors to please the public hence the words supply and demand. You can't show them so therefore your doing it for the pet population. I, on the other hand do it for the love of the breed and breed standard and the show ring for "myself" not the pet or showing population. I've stated before I don't even sell show dogs and if I have a pet amongst my litter when I have one it goes spayed or neutered to a loving pet home. If it's of show quality and I don't need it because I have enough "again" it will be spayed and neutered and placed into a loving pet home!
Donna |
So then, in your opinion, the ONLY valid reason a dog should be bred is to show?
Not trying to be a smartalec here, but I am trying to understand correctly. One of the reasons I've heard stated that the YTCA is against parti's is because of the concern that messing with colors could potentially result in unhealthy dogs because we don't know exactly what else the parti genes control. Correct? Is there any data backing up the claim? Are parti's more prone to any of the diseases that are so prevalent in the yorkie community? If not, then why the animosity towards a color variation?
Yorkies didn't start out looking the way they do now. Somewhere along the line there were variations that made the breed what it is. Imagine where the breed would be now if the early breeders and parent clubs had been resistant to change.