[ButterflyYorkie]

Originally Posted by Lorraine

You have no idea just how hard a road I travelled to get where I am. No it is not ever something that can be established quickly and trying to do so will bring a lot of suspicion from reputable breeders, some are reluctant because they have trusted someone in the past they should not have, but there are the ones you can find that will give you a chance but on their terms.
If the purpose of getting a Yorkie is just to breed, you won't find a reputable breeder interested in helping you do that.
If your purpose is to immerse yourself in the breed, show your dogs and be willing to participate, win lose or draw in the rings, then reputable breeders will rally with you. Of course, there are exceptions, show breeders with just plain old bad attitudes, some are reluctant because they were burned by someone they should not have trusted, but there ar ethose that you can convince to help you but it will on their terms not yours. After all, it is their work you are trying to get a little piece of.
When I started out, I also had to convince reputable breeders that allowed me to use their stud dogs, that I would protect their lines now carried by my puppies, with my life. That means that no puppies were ever sold that could be bred by unscrupulous breeders, puppymills, or indeed, people just breeding their pets to produce Yorkies with not much thought given to what the breed is supposed to look like. None of my boys are available for public stud either.
That means that stud services are not available unless you have an approved bitch and you are an approved breeder. It protects my kennel name as well as the kennel names in my pedigrees that I am building my lines with.
I do not want breeders selling puppies advertising the puppies are from champion lines when it was my blood sweat and tears that put the championships on those dogs while all the seller did was breed some dogs and knows about little else involved and certainly would have no idea what a good show dog would look like anyway.
Any and all puppies I ever have for sale for pet have many champions in their line, if they didn't they would not have been produced.

Your point is very well presented and VERY well taken where I am concerned. You Lorraine are a wonderful example of a TRUE show breeder with a clear view on the future of your dogs and hopes for other's.
I only hope that people who don't make themeselve's as clear won't get the same "treatment" in the future as one post in paticular was towards them.

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