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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Thank you for that answer. It seemed from a previous statement of yours that it would take both parents having that recessive short-hair gene but I just wanted to be sure I was understanding that about how a breeder might come up with a short-hair puppy with other such atypical breed features.
Regarding that parent's head shot in the old thread, would that dog's parents both have had to have a wedge-shaped head, long-muzzle gene to get that head type? And the same thing for the ear types and sets? Would it take both parents passing along those genes to create the head shape and ear types and set?
I'm so sorry to ask so many questions but if I should ever decide at some time to place a deposit on one of the puppies in some future AKC purebred Yorkshire Terrier littler and wait for the whelp, I just want to be sure one or more of them can't come out looking terribly atypical and all that wait be for naught. Even though I'd thought that a recessive gene could show up at any time, I'd still thought breeding Yorkies to one another consistently produced Yorkie-looking puppies and this thread has rattled and worried me. |
If that picture of the "mom" or was it a pic of the "DAD" that would be your first cause for concern, if that picture wasn't somehow off in angle or something.
And you are not the only one rattled here. So am I for both my breeds.
I have always thought that ear set and head shape kind of went hand in hand so to speak. Not ear size ie width and length of ear, but ear set, that is the distance apart from the inner ear to inner ear and the position on the head.
Like many breeds, BRT;s have some quite defined ear set, carriage and size requirements.
I hear your concern and it is a valid one. I think one of the questions you could put on your bucket list of breeder questions, is what happens if you have a litter with one or more "atypical" yorkies. That can cover a lot of ground. Predicted weight size, structure or conformation, temperament, coloration etc.
I think that future buyers as "pet" buyers need to be very clear to the breeder they are interviewing as to their expectations on what they want.