Wow I love the De Majodian's yorkies. Absoultely gorgeous.

What is amazing to see how the yorkie has evolved, especially the coat texture....soft coats to the standard of today. From the short cobby dog to the more leg of today

I found the info from the YTCA amazing. It was there that I found out that the 3 origional breeds it took to make a yorkshire terrier are now extinct. Too look back on how Yorkies started is mind boggling at times.

Joan Gordon is a wealth of information, you can order her book on the history from the website. Another valuable book is the illustrated standard, that too can be ordered through YTCA

Awesome website.........what a transformation in the breed :thumbup:

Nope....not me....
 

I hear ya girl........I know what I like.....and I will SURVIVE! .......she is out there......:D

This thread came to my attention from the post today.
If you want to buy a show dog from a reputable show breeder, it will be in cash or cheque, not paypal or credit cards. Why? A reputable show breeder for one thing is not going to sell off the internet so paypal is useless. Credit cards also are useless to the showbreeder as they would not be selling a lot of dogs anyway and would not carry credit card stuff for people to pay them that way. For the reputable show breeder it is not a business.
You will be seeing the breeder in person visiting her or him, providing you can convince him or her to sell to you in the first place. If you haven't convinced them, you won't be walking through the door into their home.
Whether it is a dog or a bitch, it will be co owned with the breeder and there will be private contracts that are getting more complicated all the time as everytime a hole in a contract is patched, some enterprising buyer comes up with a way around it and the show breeder ends up getting screwed. A contract is only as good as the person you are dealing with which many have found out the hard way and got into situations they regretted as they had been had.
Therefore, it is also getting a heck of a lot harder for anyone to buy a reasonably good show dog from a reputable show breeder unless they know you and/or you have a bit of a track record of being honourable.

yeh....first time i've used that quoteee thingie -

...that's why our dogs have the true colours....there are no other colours up here, where the breed was first started - Scotland- the original colour and the only correct colour is steel blue and tan and we haven't messed with the colour of them at all.....
.....i have only ever seen steel blue and tan except for in pictures.

...the dog originated in Scotland and was perfected in yorkshire, england, for use in the coal pits as a perfect rat catcher....that's why we have the tinies, as they were preferred, as they were small enough to get into the smallest crevices of mines and get more rats !
....so when some go on about size and colour, just remember that story, and i am Scottish and should know;) ;) :D

:animal-pa Debra

Which reminds me of a quote...
 

....from a not so old movie...

"If it isn't Scottish...it's cr@p!"

Great post and reminder :thumbup:

Ha ha ha...you gotta love Mike Myers.:D "Craaaaaap!"