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Originally Posted by flyorkies 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. |
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The line breeding that was used to establish the standard can have diasterous affects if not done carefully, however, without these originating breeders, all dogs would be a generic jumble of mixes. Standards were established to maintain the features that are inherent to a particular breed. The number of dogs that do exhibit the standard features are such that heavy line-breeding and in-breeding is no longer neccessary to maintain the correct qualities of the breed. When breeding is done without regard to the standard, you begin to see the yorkies that barely resemble what we love about the breed, including temperment and appearance. Why would anyone promote this and claim to LOVE the breed?