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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. |
Boy are you so right in what you have to say.
If two Yorkies bred together can produce a smooth coat Yorkie that is so far away from the breed standard, you know something in the lines is causing it. Mars is not 100% right. So I look at Minnie as being in that 10% mismatched category, that lead them to call her a fullbred Yorkie. They never seen a picture of Minnie, maybe they should. I bet they would be quick to want to get the egg off their faces, because it really makes their test look very foolish.
