When I first started out with Yorkshire Terriers I didn't no to much about what it was I should have been looking for in the Yorkshire Terrier line as far as Bad patellas, Liver Shunt, and much more that Yorkshire Terrier can be known for. I never realized that there were so many bad and Dishonest breeder's out there and yes I did learn the hard way. There was not a thing easy about how I got to were I am today !
Let me tell you a story to what can happen to you as it has happened to me and my friends and yes this can happen to you so please read on ,
I one day saw a add in the paper and there was a local breeder selling Yorkshire Terrier puppies , I said to my husband can I go see the puppies and get one he said sure Linda Dawn so off I went .
I got to the breeders house and out came two little girls and were they sweet I seemed to take to this one little girl that was as sweet as could be. I played with the babies for some time, Talked with the breeder for a very long time, The breeder of the girls told me what good lines that the babies father was from that she had got him from her friend that is a Show breeder in Georgia and then I played a bit more with the girls picked the one I liked paid the lady got all of her paper work and off we went.
Got home with her My family just loved her so now it was time to name our new baby girl we went thou about 100 names before we picked one, ASHLEY we named her. Went to the vet the vet said she was a nice little girl, So at that time I had decided if she grow up to be as nice as we were
thinking at the time she would be that I was going to breed her .We worked our butt's off with her making sure she was in the best of condition for our breeding program , this took lot's of time not to mention money to take the best of care of Ashley as we always have done with everyone of our dogs, We had a female that we used for breeding her
name is Haley (Moma's Girl) I liked Ashley so much that I asked the breeder if maybe I could use her
stud with Haley and I did , Haley had some darling little love bug's sired by Ashley's Dad, He had this
wonderful blood line come from a Show breeder I was thinking what more could I ask for then this.
I had placed some of the puppies in Show home's etc.... Then Ashley grows up and on her second
heat we breed our Ashley and Ashley give use some beautiful babies, We sold our babies to pet home's all thou I did sale some little male studs out of her litter to friends of ours to use in there breeding program . I even sent a very good friend of mine to by a puppy out of the same line as Ashley and now we both had the same line with our girls and were we ever so happy with our girls. My friend will be posting soon about this story as well . IT TRUNED OUT THAT MY GIRL FRIEND DIDNT HAVE VERY GOOD LUCK WITH HER GIRL FROM THIS LINE AS THE WERE MANY THINGS THAT WENT WRONG WITH HER LITTER'S FROM THIS LINE. She will be telling you her night mare of this story.
Everyone was so happy to have a puppy from such a wonderful little girl and such wonderful blood lines, So one day in the year of Oct , 17 th. 2005 I walked out to get the mail from the mail box and here was a letter from AKC , I thought to myself wonder what this is as I stood in my front yard
opening the letter and almost passed out opening this letter, The AKC letter read like this:
Oct 17, 2005
Reference Number# ........
Female Yorkshire Terrier Reg#
and All OFFSPRING:
A parentage verification analysis of the AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB (AKC) DNA Certifications was conducted on a dog in your dog's pedigree/lineage. The DNA results indicate that this dog could not be offspring of the parents to which it is registered. Please be advised that this dose not imply
incorrect parentage or incorrect identity of your dogs or any offspring that your dog may have sired and/or whelped.
Because your is a direct descendent of a dog in the litter with incorrect parentage, the registration
of your dog and it's offspring have been placed on referral. This means that American Kennel Club
sanctioned or licensed events. We regret the necessity of taking this action.
The breeder of the litter with incorrect parentage has been notified and we have requested additional DNA samples to determine correct parentage. Regrettably the registration of the initial littter, its members and their offspring must be cancelled if correct parentage cannot be determined. Because your's dogs direct parentage is not in question, there is no action for you to
take at this time. All recorded owners will receive written notification at the conclusion of the inquiry.
Thank You
After the finical sock of this AKC letter I called the breeder's as many other's did that had the same
mess on there hands as I did with no AKC paper's For my bitch or any of her offspring and the two
breeder's just pointed one another out and said I don't no what to tell you sorry. More or less they told me better luck next time ...........
Update as of Sept 4 2006 AKC sent new update to us !!!
No AKC paper's will ever be giving out on Ashley or any of the offspring as the parentage cannot be determined. The AKC Grandparents to Ashley were indeed not the Parent's to Ashey's Dad and the breeder's will not take any claim in this matter. As they have done many times before from my understanding. In result of this mess we have placed Ashley in a pet loving home were I can still see her. There are 3 breeders that had hands on with the father to our yorkie girls here not just one breeder and non of us no who was the one to do such a thing that has been done here !
PLEASE DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE BUYING A PUPPY OF YOUR DREAMS !!!!! I wish I would have back then , I would have seen all of the post about the bad breeder's and maybe would have saved myself and my family from a BIG HEART ACE.
I saw that one of you was asking to see the ped on this mess , However it will not help because the ped we have dont even go with our dogs that we are talking about here. we dont no who the Mom or Dad is DNA test is now saying that not only isnt the Dad to our girls Dad isnt his DAD BUT the Mom isnt his MOM ON TOP OF THAT.....
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