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05-14-2009, 01:53 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cape town, South Africa
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| Calling All South Africans!! Hi there. I need your help. I want to start a club that is similar to the YTCA for Yorkies in South Africa. We have such terrible breeders here who are breeding yorkies who aren't standard. These dogs tend to be too small, unhealthy and sick. (I don't have a problem with small yorkies)!. I want a club that can enforce much needed regulations in the breeding of Yorkies in SA. We need this to eliminate BYB, puppy mills and unethical breeding practices. I am also thinking of adding a forum like YT to the website of the club. This will be a place where all South African yorkie owners can chat like we do here on YT. It won't be a substitute for YT, I think it will just add to the South African experience of having happy, healthy yorkies. I am going to need all the South African yorkietalkers to help me! We need to do this for the breed! Who's in?
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05-14-2009, 02:58 AM | #2 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2009 Location: south africa,KZN,port shepstone
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| I agree and i am in to help where i can. Bought my first yorkie with Kidney infection and Worms!!! It cost me R4000 in vet fees just to keep him alive! Some of The breeders in sa arent following the right precautions! --------------------------- Mommy to zet & trompie |
05-14-2009, 03:19 AM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cape town, South Africa
Posts: 703
| Thanks for all the replies. I plan to start a full-blown Yorkshire Terrier Club in South Africa, so I am very happy that you agree with me. There just aren't enough reputable breeders in South Africa! Please send me a private message if you would like to be kept up to date. Thanks!!
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05-14-2009, 02:16 PM | #4 |
Lil' CoCo, Lotta Coffee. Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Africa
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| Well you know I am in.. boots & all!
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04-26-2010, 02:45 AM | #5 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | This is an OLD thread I know - very interesting tho! i wasnt on YT back then and was wondering what ever happened with your idea? It's a good idea. I had my puppy in emergency the first night i got her because she was 6 weeks old and had no teeth and her white blood cell count was so high she was almost dead. and she had a HUGE grey tick on her!!!! im getting my second puppy from her daughter in law who I have checked up on thoroughly and I am happy with her breeding ethics. but besides that - Im interested in a group of some sort of socialisation / training too. all the South Africans i have met here seem to live everywhere BUT Durban! perhaps lets re-open this thread and see if we can get something happening?
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04-26-2010, 05:13 AM | #6 |
Currently Suspended! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: South Africa
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| Wow! Fellow YorkieTalkers from SA! This thread has made my day. I'm definitely in. Let me know what needs to be done by when etc.. I would love to help. Where is everyone from? Diji and I are from Menlo Park, Pretoria. |
04-26-2010, 05:19 AM | #7 |
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04-27-2010, 09:43 AM | #8 |
Lil' CoCo, Lotta Coffee. Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Africa
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| Marilize did start a local forum and quite a few of us joined, but after a while it dissapeared and I couldn't get back into it. There are quite a few of us on here, and I wish they had a section for South Africans.. like they do for the Uk and Europe, then we could all hang there. I am just outside Johannesburg. I go to a vet in Pretoria and to Le York in PTA too, for grooming.
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04-28-2010, 09:35 AM | #9 | |
Currently Suspended! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: South Africa
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So what is the way forward for this club? and is their perhaps not a way to contact the YorkieTalk webmaster and ask that a section be included for South Africans? Last edited by Tinx; 04-28-2010 at 09:36 AM. | |
04-28-2010, 09:38 AM | #10 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Hillcrest South Africa
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| Averil Hi I live in Hillcrest..suburb of Durban.. South Africa. I would love to join a local site, as well as stay with the international site of Yorkie Talk which I am new too. I'm still trying to find my way around. I have one little yorkie female called Bo. She is almost 9yrs. Six weeks ago she was diagnosed with SARD..Sudden Acquired Retinol Disorder. Basically she went blind over night. This is such a sad condition. Very similar in symptoms to that of 'Cushings'. Its been so hard for her to adjust to her 'world of darkness' as she wasn't given a chance to adjust slowly as is with cataracts. For us to watch her bumping into walls and corners has been very distressing. She was such a lively little dog, full of confidence. Now she has lost her confidence doesn't go out much and appears so sad... I think as you are only setting up your site..and I wish you luck as I would love to be on it..I will post a message about Bo's condition on Yorkie Talk as there are so many people in the 'know' on this site. I would love to hear from anyone who has had the same problem and any tips I could pick up in helping little Bo cope. Good Luck with your new site..I really hope it takes off..looking forward to hearing from you your's in gorgeous yorkie's.. avebo.... |
04-29-2010, 02:07 AM | #11 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cape town, South Africa
Posts: 703
| Hi everyone Like mentioned in another post, I did start a forum where quite a few South African yorkie owners could chat. I don't know exactly what happened, but the forum has been dead for almost a year. I think that when I couldn't post regular threads and topics to chat about, the forum felt a little like a ghost town. It did when I was there the last time! The site itself is a free forum and I was planning to switch over to a much better format when there are enough members and enough community support that we have some leverage within the market. You can visit the forum here: Free forum : SA Yorkies - Portal and post some new messages if you like! Please note that the SA Yorkies forum isn't meant to rival or compete with YorkieTalk in any way. SA Yorkies operates alongside YorkieTalk, simply offering Yorkie owners another place to acquire information and chat to friends. When we have enough members and support on the forum, we can start setting up a club. I'm going to talk to the YTCA and find out if we can start a South African chapter. To the Yorkietalker who mentioned KUSA, there are many clubs operating in conjunction with KUSA. The kennel union merely registers purebred animals. They don't regulate breeding practices (one reason why so many registered yorkies are abused and neglected to make money). The only Western Cape club to which yorkie owners could belong is the Victoria Toy Dog club and personally I'd prefer a Yorkie club. I think there are enough South Africans with yorkies that we can start the club, we just need to connect somewhere. Geez, I hope YT doesn't ban me for saying all of this. I am so glad that this thread was brought up again. I hope we can get this thing started!
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04-29-2010, 02:54 AM | #12 |
Currently Suspended! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: South Africa
Posts: 63
| To avebo, I will keep Bo in my thoughts and prayers. it's so sad but she is blessed to have such a loving and caring mom. I hope we can get this club going. I am very excited about the prospect. Of course, it won't replace YT but give us South Africans an opportunity to interact more as well as, hopefully, our babies. The link doesn't seem to be working for me. |
04-29-2010, 03:10 AM | #13 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | Ban you? for what?! they should open a South African forum the way they have for other areas on this site too i would like a proper club where socialising etc can take place. i would LOVE to let my dog lear some agility and get some good exercise etc but there is nowhere like that around here I am going to a dog show on saturday in my local area and i will put some feelers out there and see if anyone can tell me about anything they know of
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04-29-2010, 04:09 AM | #14 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South Africa
Posts: 77
| WOW!!! How glad I am to see this topic once again being brought up. I so wish we could get a Yorkie club going in SA. Marilize, please let me know if there is anything I can do to assist, you know how I feel about this. |
04-29-2010, 04:26 AM | #15 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | Im also in! I know im in the majority of people living in Durban who are linked to these sites but I'm keen to help or even get a club of some sort going in my area
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