You may be producing quality pups...just not quality Yorkies.
- if you call yourself a breeder and an ethical one that is producing not just quality pups, but quality Yorkies, you should be able to make it to a ring-any ring (that's why they were created) at least once or twice to say truly that you are producing QUALITY YORKIES. If not, then all you are most likely producing are just like you said, "quality pups".
This kind of statement is why people who breed without showing feel that those who show think that their dogs are the only "good" or quality dogs. Many don't even try to go to a ring, I like the life my yorkie has, she has run of the house, she sleeps on my bed, she plays with my children, she gives me hugs and kisses, she even rolls in the grass if she wants. At the end of the day she is just happy. I think she is a beautiful yorkie with a wonderful personality and more love then she is big. With all that, does that make her not a quality yorkie, I don't think so.....
At least if I choose to breed my yorkie and let her beautiful, healthy puppies move on to new homes it is because I love who she is and want to pass that on, not because she didn't stack up in a ring. Those puppies are born being scrutinized and sent on their way if they don't measure up. And funny but these yorkies still cost an armload of money for dogs that didn't have enough quality to make it in the ring, and sold under no breeding contracts.
Am I saying that showing or striving for a dog that can show is wrong, by no means. What I am saying is that just because someone else is not running for a ring and chooses to give their yorkie a different kind of life, does not mean that yorkie is not of quality.
That would be like some saying your daughter (don't know if you have one) wasn't a model, so she must not be pretty enough so she should stop while she is ahead. And maybe in her quiet beauty she never even thought or tried to be a model.................... |