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Originally Posted by KazzyK810  "The new variety appears even to have been credited with all the merits of the old, and, as a natural consequence, connoisseurs, fanciers, ladies, and even gamekeepers went in for the fashionable and pretty silky Skyes. So in this way the old breed, especially on the mainland, has been reduced to a parcel of mongrels. " 
That's is my fear with the yorkie. The repetitive breeding of off-standard dogs will move us further away from how we know the Yorkshire Terrier to be, and years down the line will result in mongrels with little to no resemblance to a yorkie. |
It wont take years down the line for yorkies to look like mongrels, all one has to do is look on puppyfind. How many blue and tan do you see on there that already look like mongrels. I see plenty. There are so many black and tans off standard and you would be lucky to find 10 dogs out of 130 pages of them. The standard is not just about color, its about other qualities also. What i see is alot of people who are colorblind. You would rather see a mutt thats registered yorkie as long as its blue and tan than a well put together structurally sound beautiful Parti color yorkie. Somehow i find that so wrong.. I happen to think the Parti colored yorkie is a magnificent looking yorkie when bred right just like a magnificent blue and tan. The Beauty of the black, white and tan is something that can take your breath away when you see one in the show ring. You will always have puppymills and bad breeders but on the same token you also have good breeders. Not all breeders of the standard yorkie are good breeders the same with colors but some of us are proud of our Parti color yorkies and do show them when we can. We love them just as much as you love your standard ones. I agree they aren't the standard but that does not mean they aren't a yorkie and that its ok for you to keep telling us that we are all money hungry and that we shouldn't be breeding them. WE have our own show venues and I don't see anyone trying to force them into the AKC showring so i really don't understand why all the hate for them.