Boy all this talk makes me happy I adopted a rescue with no papers! lol. She's a pet…her ears stand up, her tail is docked, she has the right colors and her coat is silky. She looks like a Yorkie, acts like a Yorkie..so to me she is a Yorkie
But she may be a mix. I completely understand the debate about keeping the breed standards. I am not knowledgeable enough to really debate in this conversation. But it has made me curious. I do know that if I were to have spent anything over $1500 for my puppy, I would expect her to conform to the standards. But, I still don't understand why they ever even started to dock the tails? To be honest, I think they look odd chopped off. Given a say in the matter I would have said for my pet, just leave her tail alone. Again, if she were a show dog, I guess thats a whole different world. I don't see how when a human chops off a "genetically" perfect tail, makes it a standard preference. I know it is, but why? Who ever thought of that and was there a legitimate reason? I am curious about why docking ever became a thing.