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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  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. |
It's already here..and has been for years. Just more people purposely breeding for it now. But one that knows pedigree's can certainly try and avoid it for the most part. However, as Joan Gordon recently admitted...she and others breeders she knows of, have had the parti babies show up out of the blue in their litters.
As far as the yorkie not breeding true. For the most part...any popular breed...has the same problem of pet bred bred not looking like the show bred. It's just a fact that pet bred dogs are not bred the same as show bred. Look at the show poodle compared to the pet poodle. The pet poodle for the most part looks mixed in most cases. They resemble the poodle..but look NOTHING like what is shown in the ring. The same can be said for cocker spaniels, doxie's, chi's, collies, shepherds, maltese and many other breeds for that matter. And yes...yorkies too.