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Originally Posted by red98vett On the Teacup thing .... I agree to a point with what you said...The word itself doesn't bother me in the least.
But....it's only a descriptive term & even the Westminister DOG Show put a shout out to the world that 'there is no such thing as a teacup Yorkie'.
Many times people really don't know this & and many times it's used strictly to command higher prices in yorkies...
While I agree with you that we shoud be respectful of anyone using the word - we also can share what we know and let them know there really is no such thing as a "Teacup Yorkie". It's just a matter of educating people who may not realize this.... |
I totaly agree with you about it not being no such thing! but for some of the poor new members that are so excited and happy that they have found a little baby aka teacup, they join YT to share their happiness of finding what
they were told is a teacup and possibly paid some outragageous price.
then members here imedialty tell this member you were taken! you got ripped off! it's just a term bad breeders use to raise the price! Now picture this person was you that has just posted about your new teacup
how hurt you must be feeling! you now feel you have been ripped off just because everyone here as said you have! you are now feeling like you you no longer want to be a member or you are starting to resent your baby because of the feeling of your happiness of having a teacup has just been taken away from you by telling you all this! I guess this would be my take on this, not all would think this way
I guess. I do know feelings are hurt over this term to discribe their new baby. Myself I learned about this term when I first came here (feb 05), I never claimed I had one because I had a 13lb yorkie
I learned by just through reading the posts on YT. I have even made comments about the term used, But I have seen so many hurt feelings from newbies that made me sad for them and me wanting to defend them as I thought how would I feel? If it makes them happy to think their baby is a teacup, who am I to break their heart by telling them bad breeders do this to raise prices. and they possible just paid 4,000
and some members will go on saying you could have got one for around 900.00. This is why I feel this word TEACUP should be part of a guideline.