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Originally Posted by Justrunningthru  Let us not forget that once upon a time our beloved yorkies WERE mixed breeds.... They were bred with several breeds till finally the final "product" was produced. Who's to say that Morkies and the other breeds won't eventually become a breed of their own? Either way, a new baby announcement is always a good news here on yorkie talk :-) |
No one has forgotten the work that went in to creating the breed we now know as Yorkies. The big difference between then and now is that, back then, the mixes were being created to bring out certain characteristics and the mixes were bred with other mixes until the breed traits were developed and a standard was created. That isn't happening now since instead of breeding two "morkies" together to create another morkie, the BYB's are still breeding a Yorkie with a Maltese. There is no standard or even an agreement on what a "morkie" should look like. It's also considered pretty much standard that at least 3 breeds need to be included in the mix in order to create a unique genotype that identifies a "breed".