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Originally Posted by gemy  That is a rather broad brush you paint with. I love the Yorkie standard steel blue and tan, in fact I own one, and show him. But I wouldn't say that all Parti Breeders are destroying the breed. There is room for passion, and more than one point of view. New breeds do get created. These Parti Breeders can be responsible if they do all health tests, and continue to improve their lines. If they breed responsibility, and do show their dogs where they can, to try to get their breeding stock evaluated.
The Parti Breeders face an uphill battle with the YTCA, that for certain is true. |
New breeds do get created. And there would not be this controversy if the parti breeders wanted to start a new breed with the parti colors. But the yorkshire terrier is a blue and tan dog. Period. Whether the parti color came into the breed through an accidental breeding in the Streamglen Kennel in England or because of the breeds that were used to get the present day yorkie, the white spots any place but on the chest were not intended to be on the yorkie. I have a copy of the breed standard from the Kennel Club of England written in the late 1800's. There were no parti colors allowed back then. "If" any were born with them those dogs that had white patches must have been eliminated from the breeding programs of the early breeders as they should have been eliminated from breeding programs of todays yorkshire terrier breeders. These dogs are mismarks. Cute...sure but not what this breed was recognized by the Kennel Club of England and AKC to be. So instead of making this a crusade why not establish a new breed, call it something else than yorkshire terrier, because they're not true yorkshire terriers, and become recognized by AKC?