I think a really big part of the problem is the general public out there think "pet quality" is just a dog, any old dog.
Show breeder/exhibitors breed their dogs to gain approval of their stock. Even though they use the same dogs or same lines of their dogs with champions in their pedigrees, every so often, some times often, sometimes not, there is a pup that they KNOW will not be able to get in the ring.
Those are supposed to be true pet quality.
Bc most of the public do NOT do any homework other than google up puppies pics, they don't know that buying a dog from just anyone who just says they love to breed they are also adding to the problem. Also most of the public think that show dogs are too expensive. It's more disreputable breeders selling their dogs for insanely inflated prices trying to make the public think they are buying something more special or rare. Again, uninformed public being taken advantaged of by greeders. Those dogs are not show dogs. Far from it.
Some of you may remember back a few months when I stated my bff wanted to get a yorkie and she wanted my help. Wonderful! Not only can I help her find the right avenue to buy from a reputable breeder, but i can go down that path with her bc I didn't do it right the first time either. More and more talking got us fighting. She does not want a "show" dog, and she does not understand what pet quality means. She doesn't want to have to go through interviews etc to prove she is worthy of getting a dog from a reputable breeder. She just wants a dog and she wants to get it easily and now. With that attitude, she won't be able to get one from a reputable breeder.
So in steps the disreputable breeder....
Breeders that don't test
Breeders that cross breeds
Breeders that do it bc there is money to be made, the demand for it.
Breeders who sell to anyone with some cash or a credit card.
Bc they have a waiting list
etc, etc, etc
They breed bc of lazy people out there that don't want or care to have a good representation of the breed. People that think show people are "snobby". Use the word snob, elitist, whatever. People who are at the top work hard to get there and stay there. They hold themselves to a higher standard. Just bc others are lazy, uninformed or have low standards they should not accuse those who have high standards of being "snobs" or other insults. If you want to do something, do it right. If you want to bring lives into this already overpopulated world, DO IT RIGHT.
NO DISREPUTABLE BREEDER THINKS OF THEMSELVES AS DISREPUTABLE! They do not think they are backyard breeders. They are. Plain and simple. They think their actions can be justified by their lame reasons. They are really excuses. Breeding mixes does nothing for either breed. The families that BUY designers dogs are just a clueless as the people who breed them.
IF YOU WANT A MIX GO TO THE FREAKING SHELTER! There are purebred yorkies in my local shelters, cute ones too. Even more in rescue. Adopting one from rescue is harder bc we pay for vetting which costs money. We don't want the dog going to the wrong home and ending up back in rescue or a shelter. Adopting from the pound or shelter is easier bc they don't vet, only vax and spay/neuter. Lots of those dogs come back sadly.
More lame excuses, "I don't want a dog with problems." "I don't want a dog that I don't know where it came from, how it's temperament is." Same can be said for dogs with no testing, bred indiscriminately.
"I want a puppy." then three months later, "I'm giving away my dog, he can't be potty trained" More laziness. Dogs are easily trained. It just takes time and patience. if you don't have both, or either, don't get a dog. but why do so many people out there who have no time or patience have dogs? bc disreputable breeders sell to them. It's a never ending cycle bc of the uninformed public. If more and more of us stop and talk to these people and try to change the way the public views dogs and animals in general, there will be no market to fill and no more bybs and puppymills.
And no I did not quote and reply to anyone in particular, but if you got mad with anything that I stated, then perhaps I am talking to you.