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Originally Posted by Elle  It's 2010. People don't want to put their yorkies out in a barn all day so they can play.
Next, the hunting dogs are in the field, water dogs to the pond? Originally bred means just this. Not to mention, this is pertaining to the standard. If you are breeding outside of it, nothing matters. |
This is what I was trying to get at...the differences in the standards. It's not about how we treat our dogs, but does the standard protect the integrity of the dog's original purpose. What I'm seeing is a vagueness in the American standard that *could* lead to our dog's drifting away from their terrier roots.
I'm all for a beautiful dog. Yorkshires are 'fancy' terriers, after all. I don't want to someday see the Yorkshire morph into a blue and tan Maltese, however. Shouldn't a standard explicitly address all critical points of a breed's characteristics? I could have thrown the Canadian standard in the mix, too, but that would only confuse things more. It differs somewhat from the KC standard, but does address a couple of points the American standard doesn't.