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Originally Posted by Breezeaway  Yes there are unscrupulous breeders who do mix just like with any breed. But to lump all parti breeders as being this is wrong. To say there is no parti color in the yorkie is wrong , it has been proven over and over thru the years that they do pop up. Now are they the standard, no, not at this time per YTCA. But it is wrong for the YTCA to slander the Parti on their website calling them designer dogs. AKC did an investigation and they were satisfied after much talking, DNA, and looking the history over to say that they are a Yorkshire Terrier.
Why does the YTCA ignore history? To me that is a big question as how they can write their own history and ignore whats in books and articles from way back. |
I am not saying all parti breeders are unscrupulous breeders. I am saying that it just to a few accidental or intentional breedings to another breed for the gene pool to be tainted. Then breeders took these dogs and continued to breed them to set the undesirable genes. Whether the parti is pure yorkie or not is not the point. The point is that the white is a major fault and there is a handful of parti breeders that don't want accept that. There are many breeds that have fault colors that can't be shown. Why should the YTCA make the parti yorkie an exception when the YTCA feels they do not meet the standard? I don't feel it is necessary for the YTCA to call them designer dogs, parti are just yorkies with a color fault. How the parti came about is debatable.
As for AKC being satisfied, as I explained earlier, it does not take much to satisfy AKC. It would be quite easy for someone to slip in another breed into the yorkie gene pool and not get caught.
It really does not matter to me one way or another if the parti yorkie is allowed in the show ring. The majority of the parti yorkies I have seen pictures of do not meet the standard in many other ways besides color. I suppose that is why some want to bring in champion bloodline yorkies that have the proper structure and coat texture.