Yes it does happen. Buy why. Is it misrepresenting the dog as being something it is not? Same with other alterations. In dog shows you are simply evaluating breeding stock. If I had to change the dog in order to make it more toward what the standard calls for in the way of evaluating breeding stock? I may be wrong but I would like to have the dog that has it all - unenhanced. The Yorkie is very difficult to breed true. It is not one of those breeds that have been around 6,000 years. The blue is a different gene from the gold....then beside color, you are concerned with structure, nice topline, good angulation, good muscle structure. I think Yorkies are one of the most diffcult dogs to breed. In showing I feel it has to be about the dog and quality of the dog and that should stand on itself unaided - but difficult. |