[yorkietalkjilly]

Purebreds that include zillions of casually bred pups in their ranks, inbred for generations or bred willy-nilly with no knowledge of either the male's or female's heritage do lead to health problems and YorkieTalk is here to preach and protest daily against those kinds of breeders. For as long as this site has been here members have been literally howling against the dangers of buying from those breeders or millers in order to stop supporting the creation of dogs that carry many hereditary diseases and structural defaults that cause so much pain and misery in their puppies. Probably those casually bred dogs are as bad or no better than some mixed-breed dogs where the lines couldn't possibly be known in most cases.

One of the main reasons YorkieTalk exists today is to try to encourage, endorse, promote cajole, beg and thoughtfully educate all on the idea that doing business with reputable, respected breeders of longstanding renown in the breed, will get them an excellent chance at a healthy, standard-sized dog of excellent temperament and conformation.

Buying some mixed-breed dog off a website where only the claims of the seller are unsubstantiated and pie-in-the-sky is likely even chancier or as chancy as buying from a greeder, BYB'er or puppmiller. Wonder why the shelters are full of mixed breed dogs over purebred if the latter don't develop many problems?