[Yorkiemom1]

You are trying to change a breed that has been refined and bred to perfection for the last 100+ years....if you want a 10# dog with a shorter coat, get a beagle....I am not real sure it is to the "benefit of the breed" for you to single handedly, breed a Yorkie that, while in your belief, is a "perfect Yorkie, but has none of the characertistics of what a Yorkie should look like, or even be! This is a common argument of BYB and puppy mill breeders, who have a Yorkie that they want to breed, regardless of what kind of representation their "Yorkie" is of the breed....too large, sparse coated, course coat, long nose, wide set eyes, over/under bite, aggressive or apathetic attitude/personality...but it is THEIR yorkie, and they love it and they think it is exactly what ALL yorkies should be....so I am going to procreate my little back yard terrier, and make as many of them as I can possibly make, and throw them out into the breeding stream for others to breed and further destroy what has taken years and years of precise, knowledgable breeding to get what we have when you look at a Yorkie today". It is absolutely ludicrous to justify breeding a Yorkie that does NOT replicate the breed standard, because you do not like the breed standard! Every breed has a breed standard, a template, that sets forth what that breed looks like....when people decide they dont like the breed standard, and they start off the cuff breeding programs, because that is the best THEY have available, therefore it is good.....this is yet another BYB's excuse to reproduce a less than desirable Yorkie. We all have "teapots" that are absolutely adorable and lovable....I have several myself....but it would be unethical to use them for breeding purposes. I can assure you, breeders that are knowledgable and have been breeding for years, based on lines and pedigrees, as opposed to what they happen to have running around in the back yard, consistantly produce puppies that hit the breed standard, and do so without sacrificing their health!