No sorry Sue, I may have misled you a bit with the other replies to someone elses thread I had put on there...just to let people know where I was coming from!
You're right it is just my views...but far too many people have unrealistic views on breeding and when they hit the pit falls start to realise it's not all as easy as they think it is!
I am trying to educate people about breeding from undersize Yorkies, trying to maintain the correct standards for the Yorkies and so on...why have a breed standard in the first place if you don't want to breed to it's guidelines? And if you don't want to adhere to the guidelines and standards then why breed?? And, although thankfully the Yorkies don't have a lot of health problems at the moment, mainly due to careful breeding! there are other breeds that do! I have also heard some very sad cases about people perpetuating or causing health problems by too much interbreeding and by being unaware of line breeding issues etc. Some people who have bred Yorkies for years have done a lot of work for the breed...not all of them Show of course...but just because you don't Show, doesn't mean that the breeding should be of any a lesser standard surely? and if you don't know the Breed Standard then how on earth can you breed pups that follow the Breed Standard???
Maybe you're right...maybe this forum is a bit too 'fluffy' for me and I ought to go and debate elsewhere! Ohh I don't think legal requirements is the only thing to worry about...I think we need to worrry about moral requirements too!
All the best, Dawn |