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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Purebred means very little, the tests aren't that sophisticated yet to tell us much. I believe that particular test might just tell you what the dog is "mostly". Purebred SHOULD mean a lot, it should mean that the dog will look and behave in a particular way, but breeders have to KNOW how to breed, meaning if a dog has a fault you either don't breed it or you breed it with another dog whose traits will overcome that fault. This means you also need to know which faults are dominant and which are recessive. BYB don't care what their breeding dogs look like, they breed pets they aren't trying to breed good examples of the breed. If you took a purebred beautiful example of the breed and then bred it to a poor example of the breed and kept breeding, choosing the worst examples to breed, it wouldn't take long before the offspring looked nothing like a Yorkie. This is why the choosing of breeding stock is vitally important. I hope you do not breed this dog, even though you have something that says it's purebred. Again the ACA registry is not reliable, they are owned by Petland, who sells open registration to anyone. |
When your breeder tells you about your puppys sire and dam, being Ch bred, or your puppy comes from long lines of winning champion show dogs, dont think, "Well, they are just using that to jack the price of the puppy up..." No, your breeder has invested thousands of dollars for EACH of her breeding dogs, dogs that are backed up in their pedigrees with generations of Champion and Grand Champion winning show dogs, so that the puppies she produces LOOK like Yorkies!!!! THIS situation is a CLASSIC result that clearly shows an evidenced based outcome of exactly what damage is being done to the Yorkie breed by all the unconcerned, indescriminate BYB and puppy mill breedings that are rampant! The fact that so many people are stunned and amazed by these results, is actually a wonderful learning experience....just think of all the people that were absolutely convienced Minnie was a mix, now these people can clearly see the effects of exactly what poor breeding can do to the building blocks that determine what a Yorkie is even going to look like! Just remember....poor little Minnie had nothing to do with the choice of who was going to be her momma and daddy....THAT decision was made by a person who was absolutely clueless about what she was doing. Love that precious little girl, she is adorable....a spay her immediately. We do not want Yorkies with that short hair dominate gene, being bred back into Yorkies!