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Originally Posted by swan  Mike those links were fantastic. Thank you for sharing them, all of them were great reading and incredibly informative. Looks like there have been debates going on since the 1870's. Amazing. |
The point is that there is
no evidence that yorkies were bred to be ratters in the first place. On the contrary it seems that Yorkshire workers found a way to earn money, breeding the best specimens they could in order to sell them to the wealthy Victorians.
I believe that the Yorkie development is woven into the developing sport of showing dogs.
And like Joan Gordon wrote in her book :
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neither the people in the pet shops, nor the purchasers and new fanciers in London, saw the progenitors from whom the yorkie was manufactured, and, thus, his origins were forgotten and the factors used to produce him were woven into myths"
Those myths are passed from generation to generation and now in 2014 we still believe in them.
Here is another book I found "Dog shows and doggy people" written on 1902
by C.H. Lane.
https://archive.org/stream/dogshowsd...e/106/mode/2up
Maybe we should start a new topic about the history facts on our breed.
