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Originally Posted by gemy  Well CH is a title used by many countries and many registries. So for example rigair Sir Razzle Dazzle is an AM and Canadian Ch. First you want to make sure that the dog is championed under a reputable registry.
To learn what goes into making a CH for the US go to www.akc.org they have educational articles on this topic.
Briefly a dog must earn 15 pts and two majors under different judges to earn his CH. To earn pts a dog/bitch must earn winners dogs/bitch and defeat other dogs in that process. If you are the only Yorkie entered in a competition that day there is no-one to beat, and therefor you earn no pts.
A dog that earns it's championship should have no disqualifying faults, and preferably no major faults. It is almost impossible for a dog to win all his/her ch pts at one local dog show. Just not enough competition to secure that title.
How-ever at a National specialty which has hundreds of dogs entered it is possible over a 3 or 4 day wkend to earn the CH. this is because the more dogs you beat, the more pts you earn, to a maximum of 5pts in one competition day.
Also if you are looking at CH's from different countries, then you better know the standards of each country for your breed. For example in England the standard calls for a scissor bite on the Yorkie, and in US and Canada level or scissor is acceptable. That is only one of the differences.
If you study the standards in depth, you can see that the way they are written gives some latitude on what may actually be the "look" of the adult dog.
As most standards for the Yorkie only give a weight standard and not a height standard; then you could have a CH that is 7"-10" tall weighing in at around 6-7 lbs.
So what are you looking to purchase? What is the look, the type of Yorkie you want?
But back to the parents of the pup. Are they Ch's? If not why not? Important to know this answer, and to meet the parents of course. |
Good point about the other countries. Something for me to investigate further. the championships all seem to be American and Canadian except for there are 3 Brazilian, one Poland, and then that world champion - (don't know what the standard for that would be - Nik Nak's He's a Keeper - worth anything???). Like I said, champion dam, all 4 grand parents, all great grand parents, 10 of the great great, the remaining CH are in the last/5th generation showing.
the lines are Durrer's, Moonlight, Aero, Lake Buena Vista, Parkside, et al.
I looked up the names online and they are all good looking Yorkies, all with their own fairly impressive pedigrees (except...to my untrained eye, I wasn't that impressed with the Durrer's "look", but again my eye is worthless in such an evaluation)
Yes, I've met the parents...look good to me.
thanks for reminding me that other countries could have different standards.