[jencar98]

Originally Posted by FlDebra

Wow -- don't think I have ever had my name thrown around in one post as many times as this one!!!! I was going to skip but how can I not respond if only to reiterate what I have said before.

I have read just as many scientific explanations that show there is NO "parti" gene in the actual Yorkshire Terrier's past. Where is the white-coated breed in the ACTUAL breed background that would somehow materialize over 100 years later????? No one comes up with a believable origin -- just that there is some gene! There are references to the Maltese being in with the original mix of dogs used to create a yorkie. I don't buy it. I had to read carefully on both sides and come to my own conclusion. But I do not believe for a minute that there was a white gene in there. Others do and they have just as much right to their opinion as I do. However, the proof is on the side of the parti's. And I have not read anything that convinces me after careful dissection.

The Yorkshire Terrier is a beautiful breed. Many, many years by so many yorkie enthusiasts have gone into improving this magnificent breed. It would be such a shame in my mind, to try to dilute it, suggest these modern day parti's are all natural Yorkie anomalies and now breed FOR the fault.

To use poor purebred breeders as some excuse for me not to have a stance against "partis" is ridiculous. That is like saying there is only one bad breeding practice and you can't say anything against all others???? Does that make any sense at all? No! I am against purebred breeders who use poor breeding practices, those breeding tinies, those breeding off standard (which includes COLOR by the way), those not selecting the best examples of the breed, those not humanely breeding, those who sell to pet shops, brokers, the list goes on......but I am still against "parti's" as they are a FAULT, a DISQUALIFICATION according to the only two governing breed organizations -- AKC and YTCA. To my knowledge the parti color is not considered a color fault by the AKC, but is a fault with YTCA and they are the determining body for the standard as accepted in AKC shows.

The "parti" people go out and start their own breed club, try to come up with their own rules, standards, etc..... but then they want to be yorkies too!!! Can't have it both wys. You want to be a yorkie then you go by the rules of the YTCA and AKC (or other country's equivalent -- I don't mean to make this like the US is the end-all but I am not familiar enough with other countries' breed clubs). Now they want to SHOW their dogs at AKC shows when the AKC has said that the color white is going to be an immediate disqualification. It is the breed club, YTCA that sets the standard and has made the white color a disqualification.

It is sort of like this site -- if you don't like the rules, then you are free to go elsewhere! Don't try to change the WHOLE Yorkshire Terrier world, just because you want to breed off-color dogs. (Speaking of a metaphorical "you" -- not the author of the quoted material).

Debra, I know we don't agree on the parti subject and that's okay with me. I do believe there are a few good parti breeders and lots of bad parti breeders, just like with traditional color yorkies. As well as, I know there are many bad show breeders and a few good ones. Personally, I think probably 90% or more of all those breeding dogs today shouldn't be doing so.