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Originally Posted by kalina82

she is pretty but IMO i wouldn't use her colors to breed just because its a pretty, unusual color. It is still a flaw according to breed standards and if i were a breeder i would want to stick with what is expected of the breed. I understand that some people feel parti's, chocolates, creams, reds, etc can still be bred if its only for a pet but i don't understand why.

We had a yorkie come in for a liver and spleen biopsy today. i was all excited to smush on her, but when i saw her i was like whaa? she was extremely small, had a pointy face, wirey hair and weird coloring. Is this what people want when they are looking for rare or unusual coloring, i asked myself. Sure she was a nice dog, but totally did not look like a yorkie to me. She was so far off base with yorkie standards that i felt bad for teh owners. did they know what they were getting when they purchased a yorkie puppy only to have it turn out looking like a wirey, Silky looking, red/black mess?

There are so many other things to think about when you start wanting to get into breeding non-standard colors/attributes. if you stick to the breed standard you can get puppies from excellent lines and breed them to produce excellent puppies that you can sell for pet quality. Just because they have champions in their lines doesn't mean you can strictly sell your puppies as pets. That's what i would do if i were to breed. but that's just my opinion. You have to look at what you want to accomplish and what you want to provide.

Genetics is tricky. You do not know what other genes hair color is tied to. For example, White in almost every other animal and breed of dogs also connected with Blue eyes, and deafness. Think Dalmation. If you get a Dal with mostly white ears and no black 'eye liner' , that dog is probably going to be deaf. I'm not saying this against parti's and biewers. I think about the white in biewers possibly complicating things and causing deaf puppies If there gets to be too much white on the dog.
we don't know yet what the "chocolate gene" is tied to, if anything. same goes with the red, cream, and what have you.

its something to think about. Maybe you might find that after you've been breeding for certain colors a certain bad personality trait or physical trait starts emerge more and more in your dogs that you really dont want. What if it causes a lot of health problems in the dogs future and their own can't afford to take care of it. Or what if its a bad personality trait (ie aggression/shyness/aloofness/fear) and the people you sold the dog to end up being liable for something the dog did?

Another example: when the 'doodes' started to become popular i saw a lot of problems with them in the vets office. Quite a few of them were returned to the breeder or euthanized because of aggression. These dogs either had straight up aggression or they were SO fearful that they bit people who came to close because they were terrified.

what would you do as a breeder then, knowing that you may have caused these problems by producing a dog that people only thought they wanted because it looked pretty?


just food for thought. I intend no blame, finger pointing, or anything like that. These are just things i've thought about recently with more and more people posting that they would like to have these "rare" yorkies because they are 'pretty' or 'cool looking'.