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flyorkies · 12-16-2005, 07:44 AM

Im not a breeder. I feel that as a purchaser of two yorkies I would rather have a garentee that when i spend lots of hard earned money that im getting a close replica of the breed standard. I will not breed my yorkies we have an appointment for monday to have my female spayed. Truthfully i spent alot of money on her and i thought i did my research. well then i found yorkie talk and did post some pics i got good honest answers and found that both of my yorkies as cute and loving as they are should not be bred due to haveing too many non standard features. so here i am i have two great yorkies wich is great i love them to death. Now im still researching still reading everyday but ive come to find out that unfortunitly almost every yorkie i see around here is not breed standard. i can now pick out a roach back, hair color and quality, height, weight and their snout size. a lot of people have yorkies here in florida and like i said none of them look like breed standard. So when i look in the news paper and see atleast 4 adds per week" yorkies for sale, teacups, champion lines." none of them say pet quality. Then you have someone that comes along maybe new to the breed and wants one because they have seen someone elses cute yorkie. They are in a way being scammed and contributing to bad breeding situations, im sorry to say most people will not tell you that you are only getting pet quality yorkies. I think this may be the "back yard breeder". I feel there is only like a hand full of honest breeders. I give good breeders alot of credit for striving for breed standard. see I obviously bought my dogs from back yard breeders not knowing it at the time . They both came with full registrations and i was told they would be great breeders because there parents were so perfect. i felt hey spend a little more maybe someday i will breed them. Plainly saying i just wanted that open option at the time. well once agian if i knew more i would have spent the money to have a good representation of the yorkie breed. I think too many people are breeding yorkies that arent standard. Great pets but if you want a dog that looks like mine again as cute as they are then you might as well put your money towards a better cause and adopt from a rescue. This will help wein out those breeders that are just doing it for the money breeding anything they have.As far as people that have acidental litters most of those people tell you that when your buying the puppy and if there honest they wont charge 1000 dollars and upwards. so nothing agiast them. All of those puppies should be spayed or neutered. I guess what im saying is i dont agree with breeding unless you are going to strive for breed stadard only because in my eyes it is ruining the breed and allowing yorkies to become preyed upon by money greedy people that want to make a quick buck. Sorry for the length. Didnt relize i had so much to say.

12-16-2005, 07:44 AM	#12
flyorkies Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: florida Posts: 177	Im not a breeder. I feel that as a purchaser of two yorkies I would rather have a garentee that when i spend lots of hard earned money that im getting a close replica of the breed standard. I will not breed my yorkies we have an appointment for monday to have my female spayed. Truthfully i spent alot of money on her and i thought i did my research. well then i found yorkie talk and did post some pics i got good honest answers and found that both of my yorkies as cute and loving as they are should not be bred due to haveing too many non standard features. so here i am i have two great yorkies wich is great i love them to death. Now im still researching still reading everyday but ive come to find out that unfortunitly almost every yorkie i see around here is not breed standard. i can now pick out a roach back, hair color and quality, height, weight and their snout size. a lot of people have yorkies here in florida and like i said none of them look like breed standard. So when i look in the news paper and see atleast 4 adds per week" yorkies for sale, teacups, champion lines." none of them say pet quality. Then you have someone that comes along maybe new to the breed and wants one because they have seen someone elses cute yorkie. They are in a way being scammed and contributing to bad breeding situations, im sorry to say most people will not tell you that you are only getting pet quality yorkies. I think this may be the "back yard breeder". I feel there is only like a hand full of honest breeders. I give good breeders alot of credit for striving for breed standard. see I obviously bought my dogs from back yard breeders not knowing it at the time . They both came with full registrations and i was told they would be great breeders because there parents were so perfect. i felt hey spend a little more maybe someday i will breed them. Plainly saying i just wanted that open option at the time. well once agian if i knew more i would have spent the money to have a good representation of the yorkie breed. I think too many people are breeding yorkies that arent standard. Great pets but if you want a dog that looks like mine again as cute as they are then you might as well put your money towards a better cause and adopt from a rescue. This will help wein out those breeders that are just doing it for the money breeding anything they have.As far as people that have acidental litters most of those people tell you that when your buying the puppy and if there honest they wont charge 1000 dollars and upwards. so nothing agiast them. All of those puppies should be spayed or neutered. I guess what im saying is i dont agree with breeding unless you are going to strive for breed stadard only because in my eyes it is ruining the breed and allowing yorkies to become preyed upon by money greedy people that want to make a quick buck. Sorry for the length. Didnt relize i had so much to say.