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Originally Posted by MissSunni  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. |
Love that you rescued. All my dogs before this were rescues. Love my rescue pugs & bulldogs but every experience ended so badly that I thought it may be time for me to actually get a puppy for the first time so I had some kind of health guarantee & got them at the optimal time for training. Lordy, my pugs never got 100% housetrained and no amount of time with my dog trainer did any good. The minute I was turned around they were peeing on something in my house. Kept them for their whole lives but it was hell. I loved my dogs but hated that any time I was a room away I had anxiety that they were ripping something up or peeing all over the new carpet! And my rescue bulldogs were the greatest but by no fault of their own, were badly bred with severe problems and had terrible lives and health problems that even my incredible vets could never fix completely. Rescues, man. I fall so in love, but so much heartache always seems to follow.
That being said, I always feel guilty thinking about going to a breeder because of my experience with rescues and all the dogs in need of homes (even though my family used to breed, I never did get into any of that on my own). I confided this to my breeder who so graciously said that if I have a change of heart and choose to go to a rescue, she knows a couple really great yorkie rescues she would take me to and would come with and offer her guidance on their available doggies from a breeder & experienced yorkie owner standpoint to ensure I got the healthiest, and best suited one for my needs. I may take her up on that. Her pups are too young to go as of now so I have a couple weeks to decide what I'm doing for sure.