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Originally Posted by darbygale  Talk amongst yourselves. I am off to bathe my traditional colored yorkies. |
You'll find this frustrating Darby. No matter how the white spotted yorkies started the breed was developed as a blue and gold dog. Huddersfield Ben did not have white patches on his head, legs or sides. And YTCA is going to keep parti color dogs out of the AKC ring. Period. The DQ will be ammended one more time and then AKC will be done with our changes to it. According to AKC a standard cannot be opened or ammended more than once every 5 years. BUT, it is up to AKC whether or not it can be opened that often. They call the shots and they are giving YTCA one more chance to write a DQ that will cover not only parti colors but off color yorkies.
One contributor here said that the people in YTCA will get old and die off so in the future the standard will be changed. I feel pretty good...how bout you?
Why don't the parti color people change the name of their dogs, take yorkshire terrier out and apply to AKC as a new breed or separate breed. Like the Norwich and Norfolk Terriers? They refuse to do this so endless exchanges like this thread will continue. But more importantly, parti color yorkies will stay in the shadow of the blue and tan yorkie. They'll corrupt our gene pool, that we can't stop. But ethical breeders will work to keep the Yorkshire Terrier what it was intended to be.