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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  This is a really salient point. Some folks seem so angry at parti breeders. One reason I've never really understood the heightened emotions over the parti/biewer issue is similar to what Jeanie mentions above.
Every dog on this planet is descended from the Gray Wolf. So, unless someone has a gray wolf, then the dog they currently have is a mix who came from the gray wolf. A 'purebred' happens over time; yorkies didn't just appear on the planet.
Makes me wonder if 10,000 years or so ago (give or take, depending upon when you see the wolf/dog split), when humans were creating all the mixes (now breeds) we see today - whether or not the passion reached the heights it does today.
At the end of the day, we all have a 'mixed' dog and every breed started as just that. And every breed 'standard' is created by humans. Not only that, but those same humans who set the standard, then change the standard...so, I guess change is acceptable....but maybe only ostensibly??
I guess one of my main points is, I don't understand the notion that breeding partis (or biewers, or whatever other controversial breed) is just plain wrong, as some indicate. Whose to say that any breed/strain/mix that was created (incl yorkies) was wrong or right?  |
It's not the idea that they are breeding other things, they want the YTCA to change the standard because of what they have chosen to do. The YTCA is there to
Protect the standard, do you see the conflict? YTCA members have promised to protect and preserve the standard.
I believe there is room for more breeds, but I don't believe that a breed is necessary better if it has more variety. What some Biewer Clubs are trying to do is different than what some parti breeders are trying to do because some parti breeders
seem only interested in producing pets, and vilifying the YTCA. Why do they even want to be accepted by a breed club that they have so little respect for? If you want to create a variation of a breed, you need to get a group of like minded people and form a breed club, set a standard and adhere to it, and start showing, your goals should be more than to produce pets or even to have AKC status. You should have a code of conduct for your members, and your long-term goal should be that you would like this variety of breed to be around 100 years from now even better than it is now. By better, I mean more healthy examples that consistently produce the qualities of "standard". In the early days of a breed club, standard may change, but as they learn more about this particular variety and do health testing they can tweak their standard. However, at some point in time they should be very concerned about changing it just to bring in more variety.