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Originally Posted by concretegurl  If you say you are not against a dog just against breeding it...how does that make sense...then you are again the pups..by default that dog's lineage and that dog no? Not against the dog but it's breeding...but it's parents breeding were you against that...why were they sick...carried a genetic disorder...a fault...the only fault was color?!?
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I am not sure why that would be a difficult concept to understand but I will expound to try to make my thoughts clearer. I loved my first yorkie -- she was not to standard. She had close-set eyes, wavy hair, super short legs, and wound up with a partially collapsed trachea (the tendency to get CT can be genetic) -- any one of these things would render her unbreedable in my eyes. So, I had nothing against her -- I loved that pup and treated her like the queen she deserved to be. But, I would never have further diluted the yorkie gene pool with her faults.
I do not think you should breed tinies -- but I love the cute little pups! I do not think anyone should breed for chocolates but if a good breeder had one occur as a natural fault in her lines, I would LOVE to have one, which I would spay/neuter as appropriate. I do not think you should breed a solid color yorkie but I have seen some that are gorgeous and I would love them as a pet too! I would love any pupwith liver shunt, Leggs-perthe, luxating patellas, thick, rounded, floppy ears, sloped toplines -- but I would not want them bred. There are lots of faults that do not make a dog sick, but if you continue to breed the faults, eventually the dog will no longer look like a yorkie. The whole idea of having a standard is to
preserve the look that has been refined and a standard written for.
Others are always free to feel differently -- when I express my opinion it is in no way saying others cannot have their own opinion. Expressing mine does not negate their rights to have one in any way.
BTW just to clarify to others --
I have never emailed Concretegirl, I don't even have her email address. Not sure who she is referring to but it is not me. Hope that clears any misconceptions some had.