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Originally Posted by archonis  Really? Who says those are the right standards? The same ppl who provided wrong ones? I think so.
I also provided educated proof in research that it does. |
Not sure if you're addressing my post but it seems so.
The YTCA is the parent club for the Yorkshire Terrier in the US. Each breed has its own parent club. There is no 'the same people'.
I haven't read every post in the thread (most but not all), but I haven't seen where anything has been shown that the breed standard for the YT leads to unsound dogs. Maybe refer me to a post if I missed it.
The instances Buster Brown mentioned were of dogs whose standard takes singular features to an extreme. On the whole, the YT is a breed whose standard calls for a balanced dog. There really is no 'extreme' feature about a YT.
Now, a point was made of breeders breeding dogs simply because they win while turning a blind eye to some known issue. That is a matter of personal ethics, not of the breed standard.
Personally, there are some breeds I would just not want to be involved with due to what has been done to them. There are quite a few breeds where there are two distinct types of breeders...those breeding for show and those breeding 'working' strains. I don't see any need to have Yorkies bred for show by some and working lines by others. The YT, in its modern 'show' guise, is fully capable of doing the work it was bred to to and look good doing it!