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Originally Posted by kpstoybox  Jim..you know as well as I do that many breeds have successfully added varieties of size, color, and coat many times over. And the original varieties were not ruined because of it. How will adding a variety class for the parti be detrimental to the standard blue and tan? Nobody seems to want to answer that...but they sure do keep beating that dead horse.
Besides...you can't just wipe out a recessive color that has been in the breed for years. If the serious breeders of the color give up and quit...you will still have as many parti's being born...but they will be horrible quality.
But wait..that is exactly what the YTCA and their members want. It's ok if pet parti's are bred by the hundreds..as long as they don't affect the show world. They can be pets...but heaven forbid you want to take one in the ring. Then it becomes personal. LOL
The parti is here whether everyone like's it not. Why can't those who want to better it and show it be allowed too? If a variety class is allowed...soon...just like with the color varieties in the cocker spaniel...reputable breeders will breed parti to parti, and keep the show lines of each separate for the most part. And those in the show world know this to be true. They just will not admit it. |
Yes, i know that there are other breeds with varieties. No argument there. Not all breeds are the same, however, and not all are bred the same so you can't automatically assume what is true for one breed is true for another.
I know you've heard it as often as I that you breed Yorkies genotype to genotype in order for it to breed true to type. With some other breeds you can breed phenotype to phenotype and get predictable results. It's not that way with Yorkies. They are a young breed and the undesirable traits have not yet been weeded out. Some Yorkies are so out of standard that it's sometimes hard to be more specific than that they look like a terrier of some sort.
With some of the older breeds, you can put just about any 2 dogs of that breed together and get pups that look like the breed. Maybe not ideal representations, but even a casual observer can recognize the breed. That isn't true for Yorkies and I feel that, until that day comes, breeding for any variation is detrimental to the breed. It's not like all faults will magically disappear overnight, but unless we attempt to breed them out they will crop up more and more often. That is the crux of the argument in breeding to the standard....so a Yorkie will look like a Yorkie.
To me, getting the Yorkie to breed true to type should be the goal of every breeder. We will have all left the breed better than we found it when even an 'average' Yorkie is a good representation of the breed. It may make more sense to breed for varieties after that is accomplished, but any variations (and I like teapots myself) at this time only makes that goal more difficult.
It's nothing personal against partis for me. They are easy to identify if one wants to avoid them. The carriers, however, will cross over into the standard gene pool and make it even harder to breed true to type for the breed overall. The goal for a breed, any breed, is to breed true and carriers will be just one more wild card in a deck with too many wild cards already.