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Originally Posted by RachelandSadie  i just wrote a huge huge statement that didn't come through. rather than write it again i'll just state that i am forming my own opinions and basically so far it is that i wish to see the yorkie standard stay blue and gold only and the white varieties of the dog to be known as a seperate dog breed NOT as a variation in color to the existing yorkie. this would be a great compromise to make everyone happy. i think as long as a breeder breeds to health and quality, they should be able to breed to a standard they as the breeder are looking for. someone who puts their life into changing the traits of a dog and creating an entirely new breed of dog should be able to do so. i don't think yorkies should be bred off standard for sales and pet industry, but breeding for the white traits in a dog and considering the end results a new breed of dog seems ok to me. if people don't change the traits in a dog's lineage then how will we ever get new dog breeds. every year the AKC recognizes more breeds. i just think a yorkie is a blue and gold dog and a white variety should be a new breed. we may never truely know if it's a gene that naturally happens in yorkies or if it's another dog breed that leaked into the line, but either way it can and prob. in the future will be a whole new breed of dog a white dog with blue and gold and brown and black colors in it's coat called something other than a yorkie and has the yorkie as it's ancestor. that's my opinion and i'm sticking to it. |
AKC will not register Parti's as a sperate breed because they are yorkshire terriers and new AKC breeds must be a mix of 3 different breeds.
Definition of PUREBRED according to the merriam-webster definition is:
bred from members of a recognized breed, strain, or kind without a mixture of other blood over many generations
Synonyms: blooded, full-blood, full-blooded, pedigreed (or pedigree), pure-blooded (or pure-blood), thoroughbred
My parti's are purebred and they should have the same rights as the traditional blue and tan has. Color does not make a dog purebred, it's the years of uninterrupted purebred bloodlines in that's dogs breeding that make it a purebred.
I don't feel that a yorkshire terrier, who's coat is not the perfect shade of steel blue (or who's ear is down, or has some smuttiness mixed in it's tan or is parti colored ...), is any less a purebred than what the standard calls for because it's his generations of purebred breeding, that makes that dog a purebred.