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01-13-2006, 02:28 PM | #1 |
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| chocolate yorkie? i've been looking around at colors of yorkies and noticed a chocolate yorkie. i have a friend that told me that chocolate yorkies is a bad ressesive gene and not to consider getting one. what does everyone else think or know about the chocolate yorkies? |
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01-13-2006, 02:40 PM | #2 |
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| From what I understand, only the 'blue born' pups inherit more health issues, but not the chocolates and platinums. |
01-13-2006, 03:50 PM | #3 |
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| THATS GOOD BECAUSE I THINK THE CHOCOLATES ARE VERY CUTE.. I'D LIKE TO HAVE ONE, ONE OF THESE DAYS |
01-13-2006, 04:02 PM | #4 |
My furkids Donating Member | Hi! I surf ALOT of Yorkie sites...I like to see what people have for sale and the prices...(Although I would never buy any animal off line without seeing their living conditions and the parents or, at least the mother). I have seen a couple of "chocolate" yorkies for sale. The price was high as they were being sold as "rare". I have NEVER heard of a chocolate yorkie. So......I e-mailed AKC and asked them about this..They said this color is not recognized by the AKC. Also to beware of breeders trying to sell this color as being rare. This would be considered a defect in the color...I am not saying you shouldn't get one just becareful of breeders trying to sell you a "rare" color pup for $$$$ when it really isn't rare at all. |
01-13-2006, 04:06 PM | #5 | |
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01-13-2006, 05:45 PM | #7 |
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| Teresa, there is another thread on the board right now discussing something along this same line. Here is the link: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...highlight=blue There has been a very good site posted on the thread explaining about color variation. Hope this helps. I will PM you with a link where you can see a pic of an adult chocolate! |
01-13-2006, 06:23 PM | #8 |
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| Teresa...whispersmom on here knows a lot about chocolates as she used to own one (may still) and she knows what it is that AKC says about them. I have a gold and white parti-colored yorkie and they do register them AKC if both parents were AKC. I thought it was the same for the chocolates. They are not common and are usually a little more in price but they are beautiful as all yorkies are. You may want to do a search or even PM Whispersmom as she is very nice and knowledgeable. |
01-13-2006, 07:04 PM | #9 |
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| You are doing the right thing, learning all you can before you jump in. IMO they are like a lot of other confusing features that some yorkies are born with. Whether is is rare and therefore expensive OR if it is a defect that one should avoid is all up to who you are talking to. If it is a Yorkie you are after and you want to play it safe you should take the advice of the YTCA. website is www.ytca.org go to the FAQ section and read about off colored Yorkies. another site is a long time breeder and Yorkie enthusiast. She was a very traditional and respected breeder. here is the link, scroll down for chocolate comments. http://www.shooterdog.com/alexfaq3.htm If I wanted a chocolate, or a parti, or a tri, or a Biewer, or a babydoll face or a tiny I would learn all that I could and proceed with caution. And if I felt fine with it, I would go for it. Be sure this is what you want. Look at adult pictures of them. Are you going to be able to handle it whenever someone asks you what kind of dog you have? It may not bother you but we have a lot of posters who have non standard Yorkies and get really offended when someone asks. good luck |
01-13-2006, 07:09 PM | #10 |
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| Go to this site ans scroll to the middle of the page, she dicusses Chocolate Yorkies. http://www.shooterdog.com/alexfaq3.htm
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01-13-2006, 07:13 PM | #11 | |
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How does someone register an off colored dog? I hear they do it but how? | |
01-13-2006, 07:28 PM | #12 | |
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There is no evidence that parti-colored or chocolate yorkies have any more health issues than traditional colored yorkies...purists simply do not like them because they are not within the standard. Breeders used to use the health issue excuse as a reason to kill these beautiful babies at birth so they wouldn't "ruin" the breed. It is simply a matter of esthetics and not a reason to kill a perfectly sweet and healthy puppy imo, despite the "breed standard". The fact is that the yorkie was developed from combining terriers of different colors and (some believe) the maltese, which means that those recesssive genes for all of those colors are there in the genes of some breeding yorkies and they pop up occasionally. This is how the Biewer Yorkie was developed. Mr. Biewer decided these dogs were beautiful and worth saving so instead of killing them he started breeding "for" them and now we have the tri-colored Biewers. | |
01-13-2006, 07:30 PM | #13 |
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| chocolates although they are beautiful little yorkies, i think i'm going to stay away from them. if i bought one, i couldn't breed it because i don't want to hurt the yorkie breed.everyone has good points and i thank you all but i guess i'll stay with the black and tan. everyone has been so helpful. sending me links and giving me the best info they could. thanks a bunch everyone |
01-13-2006, 08:30 PM | #14 |
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| Glad we could help and good luck finding your new baby. |
01-13-2006, 08:34 PM | #15 |
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| I have a chocolate (see avatar), but he's just a pet to me at this point. He just weighs a little over 1 pound and a half @ 6 months of age! Lemme show you an updated photo.
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