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Originally Posted by YorkieRose Sashajade...Yes, I agree, the Yorkie was much larger until around 1930, we are 76 yrs away from those times and the standard has been revised AND BY the same people who developed the breed in the first place.
What is important is the standard....a breeder either adheres to or gives every effort to adhere to the standard or stops calling their dogs Yorkies.
If they change the standard to include larger Yorkies, then I have the option to breed larger..at this point I do not have this option IF I want to be a reputable, honest breeder.
Yorkies are companion dogs, spending 24 hrs with their owners..many people want one they can travel with, handle with little effort. Not all are able to groom a 15 pounder...infact as I started downsizing my grooming business..(I had to because of arthitis in my fingers) I stopped grooming anything over 10 pounds...and it is not easy to carry a 10 pounder when traveling.
If we do not like the rules, change them, but we can not toss them out because we do not like or agree with them....the workers in the mills and mines in Manchester, Leeds.etc needed a large Yorkie to kill vermin...I have never in all my years had a potential pet buyer want a Yorkie for rat control..
BUT if the day comes we are run over by rats and mice again, perhaps they will see a need to revise the standard.
What this post boils down to is this...the breeder said the pup would be what it is not..the buyer paid for one thing and got another...if I ask the baker for an elcair and I get home finding an APPLE in the bag..I am not going to accept the bakers explaination that the apple is better for me then the elcair..I want what I asked and paid for..once again, common sense dog breeding 101. |
i agree and had already put that if the dog was sold as breed standard then some money should be given back. the people who gave the breed standard were not the people who developed the breed the people who first breed the yorkie were normal every day working men with familys not the kennel club, also as i said it was about fashion at the time which as with clothes changes over years, it wasnt set for the best health and looks of the dog it was just looks.