[yorkieK9trainer]

"Well, my open mouth-insert foot disease is kicking in again. A better statement would be Show Quality Yorkies. Quality is in the eyes of the beholder. I produce (manufacture) dolls, I raise Yorkies, not by a politically reviewed Judges standard in a beauty contest, but rather by temperament, social skills, playful, loving and healthy, true characteristics and allowing them to be real dogs, not caged animals. Yorkies were originally breed to be ratters. It's in their nature but show me when a "ring judge" has ever considered that. The show ring is nothing more than a social standing beauty contest, period, and a political one at that. Rings were created for bragging rights by rich folk so they can charge more for "what they produce." And just because "they produce" offspring from a Show Quality Yorkie, does not mean that you will get a Show Quality Yorkie Pup, or even a quality pup, if that's what you want. I'm sure there are some who purchase a Yorkie that they think would make it in any ring even if they have no intensions of showing because they can afford it and can brag about how much it cost them. I'm not trying to offend anyone but I'm getting the impression from several posts that there is a definite social standing superiority among us. JMO "

I understand where you are coming from and know that your view point is shared by many.
HOWEVER-this opinion is one that is developed by people that have NEVER put a dog in the ring (conformation or otherwise) OR have tried conformation once, felt they had a superior Yorkie and bombed in that class and blamed it on having a terrible judge. Well one of two things is the case: either you were simply wrong and your Yorkie really didn't fit the standard regardless of your opinion-maybe you don't have the right "eye" for the breed and need to learn more. OR that judge was just not a good judge (maybe he/she was having a bad day and took it out on the dogs in the ring) and didn't do the AKC Conformation sport justice. Either way, that is why I say that you need to show your dogs under multiple judges (in WHATEVER sport you choose) in order to have a EDUCATED OPINION that you develop YOURSELF because you have "been there, done that" YOURSELF and not go off of what other people say or just what you see on tv.
I agree that there are some shi**y judges out there, but the standard and those judges are there for a reason and MANY of them ARE NOT persuaded by politics and really do their job quite well. Do you even know what it now takes to become an AKC judge? Go look that up. This whole "AKC is nothing but politics BULL$HIT" is a thing of the past when the standard for judges wasn't as high as it is today. For whatever reason, that steriotype still exists today, just like wolves are viscious and will go out of their way to eat your children. Times have changed. Get out to the ring a few times and you'll see what I mean!