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Originally Posted by Passionfruition [B]
I think it's one thing to have a yorkie but it's another thing for yorkie OWNERS to say what 'kind' of yorkie you own. Who cares and what does it matter? (Especially on this site for crying out loud!)
As a woman, I try and try, and am healthy, and my weight is ___ but my best friend barely tries and tries and her weight is still ___! So humans or yorkies, we're all different! IT doesn't mean that skinnier is better or anything like that!
I DID MY RESEARCH! I called over 50 breeders asking about bloodlines, potential health problems, and yes, weight of parents. I wanted to have the best possible chance of having an AKC breed-standard yorkie. Sully's parents were both 6 lb'ers. Ok, so um, Sully is a year-and-a-half old now and is right under 9lbs. Does that mean he's not a yorkie? NO! And does that mean the "tinies" or "teacups" or whatever title you want to give them to divide them from the rest are better? NO!!!
Don't ask about my yorkie's temperament! Don't ask about his length or height! Ask about his dang weight and go ahead and igorantly claim that you are more 'elite' for owning a smaller-sized yorkie. I have no time for ignorance. This site used to be somewhere we'd all brag about our yorkies. Now it's all about size and I'm utterly DISGUSTED. |
Val~
I honestly have never experienced you getting this upset about a topic and you are usually so positive about most everything that I really can see how much this hurt you today and I really want to understand why but I am still struggling with it.
In your opinion is this thread about the larger yorkie guilty of being elitest in your opinion too?
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...ght=larger+lbs
If you feel that that thread was just as bad as the "Joy of tinies" thread then it makes more sense, but if it is only bad when it is about tinies but "bigger" yorkies can have their own thread w/o it being considered offensive then I don't understand at all.
Like I said before, to me these threads are no more than asking to post pictures of yorkies with undocked tails or yorkies whose tongues stick out or yorkies who are silver or gray or whatever. Starting those thread is not saying they are "better" than yorkies who don't share those characterisitics...they are just different.
Yes, we love them all but they are all different and we should be able to celebrate the uniqueness w/o feeling guilty or w/o hurting someone's feelings whose yorkie doesn't have those characteristics.
Does that make sense?