I understand your feelings and your passion.. however I believe you are missing the point. We do NOT want to change the standard. We all LOVE the standard, traditional yorkshire Terrier.. many of us have these stunning beautiful dogs and would not want to change them in any way. To me, a beautiful, correct blue/gold yorkie is the most stunning creature there is.
That said, we believe there is Room for the parti yorkshire terrier, and the golds and the chocolates.. they are NOT standard but that doesn't make them NOT yorkshire terriers.
I am in the process of writing standards for the "non standard" yorkshire Terrier colors so they can be shown in the rare breed shows.. we want to group them together, so they can show together.. allow the standard, traditional yorkshire terrier to show on it's own, and the non standard colors to show against it..
We DON'T want to touch the original standard.. as for the "off colors" we use the same Yorkie standard as is written now for character, size, structure .. the entire thing Except coat color.. that is where we go into specific color varieties for the other colors..
We believe there IS a way to work together with the people who are passionate about keeping the standard for the Yorkshire Terrier intact. The facts are that the Parti Yorkies and the other color varieties are here to stay. We would rather see good, solid representations of the yorkie by getting them in the ring, and get good solid breeders behind them working towards a goal and keep them out of the "back yards".
Thanks for listening and keeping an open mind.
Diana
