YTCA Standard?

[SoCalyorkiLvr]

Unfortunately, there are some people who will read that standard and think they don't have a yorkie because theirs is over 7 lbs or it has floppy ears or is not black and tan or whatever.

Just because your yorkie does not have all the characterisitics set forth in the AKC breed standard does not mean you do not have a wonderful and beautiful and loveable dog. This standard is for those who breed to show their dogs and have set forth "their ideal" yorkie by coming up with this definition for the judges to use in judging in a dog show. It is by no means the end all of definitions for all yorkies as most do not fit this standard.

If your yorkie has charactieristics that are different from the "standard", the show breeders call them "faults", but if they are not life threatening faults then they are of no consequece and it doesn't mean that you have some "inferior" version of the breed. It just means your dog would not win in the show ring. That is all. Show dogs are not superior in quality to non-show dogs in my opinion.

[Missy's Mommy]

Originally Posted by SoCalyorkiLvr

Unfortunately, there are some people who will read that standard and think they don't have a yorkie because theirs is over 7 lbs or it has floppy ears or is not black and tan or whatever.

Just because your yorkie does not have all the characterisitics set forth in the AKC breed standard does not mean you do not have a wonderful and beautiful and loveable dog. This standard is for those who breed to show their dogs and have set forth "their ideal" yorkie by coming up with this definition for the judges to use in judging in a dog show. It is by no means the end all of definitions for all yorkies as most do not fit this standard.

If your yorkie has charactieristics that are different from the "standard", the show breeders call them "faults", but if they are not life threatening faults then they are of no consequece and it doesn't mean that you have some "inferior" version of the breed. It just means your dog would not win in the show ring. That is all. Show dogs are not superior in quality to non-show dogs in my opinion.

Yorkies are all unique, thats one of the things I love most about mine is their differences from eachother.

I would imagine the breed standard was set to preserve the breed, and not as a guide to compare your yorkie against to determine if you in fact have a yorkie or not.

I didnt post on this thread to debate, I am going to bed now. Good night Kim

[SoCalyorkiLvr]

Looks like we have all been fooled....

I found these previous posts by Sunkissed which show her obvious bias and knowledge of the YTCA and it's standard....

It doesn't sound like your 'in it' for the love of the breed either. Otherwise you'd realize that years & years of ethical breeder's hard work is going down the tubes by you breeding your yorkies. Breeding for the 'love of the breed' would be responsible breeding, not just throwing 2 yorkies together (that AREN'T even of standard) together and seeing what happens

Wow, I couldn't have said it any better. I've only been on this forum for a few days now and I'm disturbed at all of the byb's I'm seeing around here. People breeding when they have NO CLUE as to what they're doing

The YTCA is full of reputable breeders. I've also found the AKC's site for breeder classifieds to be helpful. Here are the links:

http://www.ytca.org/breeder3.html

http://www.akc.org/classified/search/index.cfm

I for one do not appreciate you coming on here and posting a sarcastic thread such as you have done and "playing games" with the kind natures of the members here! This is just not right!

[chloeandj]

Originally Posted by SoCalyorkiLvr

Looks like we have all been fooled....

I found these previous posts by Sunkissed which show her obvious bias and knowledge of the YTCA and it's standard....

It doesn't sound like your 'in it' for the love of the breed either. Otherwise you'd realize that years & years of ethical breeder's hard work is going down the tubes by you breeding your yorkies. Breeding for the 'love of the breed' would be responsible breeding, not just throwing 2 yorkies together (that AREN'T even of standard) together and seeing what happens

Wow, I couldn't have said it any better. I've only been on this forum for a few days now and I'm disturbed at all of the byb's I'm seeing around here. People breeding when they have NO CLUE as to what they're doing

The YTCA is full of reputable breeders. I've also found the AKC's site for breeder classifieds to be helpful. Here are the links:

http://www.ytca.org/breeder3.html

http://www.akc.org/classified/search/index.cfm

I for one do not appreciate you coming on here and posting a sarcastic thread such as you have done and "playing games" with the kind natures of the members here! This is just not right!

Exactly... I posted my comment only after I read her previous posts. I had not meant to be rude, but it was pretty obvious her intentions with this post. It was not I who needed the hand slapping...

[jesscruz]

OH MY GOD!!! kim thanks for pointing that out to us. i for one did not read her other post therefore was fooled how close minded is that!

[SoCalyorkiLvr]

Originally Posted by chloeandj

Exactly... I posted my comment only after I read her previous posts. I had not meant to be rude, but it was pretty obvious her intentions with this post. It was not I who needed the hand slapping...

That's what we get for trying to see the good in everyone as Carter'sMom said.

How sad. Truly!