:thumbup: even parti Yorkies are registered if AKC and they are not standard

I've always used Pantene on her!

She is gorgeous. Beautiful, just beautiful. You can tell she wasnt born blonde by the dark hair that is still showing through. The ones who are born blonde/golden dont have the dark hair showing underneath at all.

Thanks, I love her & her little sister to death! Dolly keeps her barrette in all day & her hair stays tidy all day. The last couple years she's gotten the little bit of tear stain, but before that the hair around her eyes was almost white.

Agree, it just means they aren't breed standard for show, look at how stunning Wanda's chocolate boy is. doesn't make them any less smart of loving

she is just a little button and soooooo shiny, love her

She doesn't have to go on shows to be appreciated, you post photos on here and we will gladly applaud her beauty and it's cheaper too

Yes, & thank you for doing it!

Ok so I'm new to this & not sure I'm even doing this correct but I saw this golden yorkie on Google & followed the link here....I am curious who she or he belongs to & if they have a clue where I can find one that is related.....i am in LOVE with it! Lol. Yhanks.

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LOL I wouldn't worry about it. Every one knows, "Blondes Have More Fun!";)

Holy Moses! That's a good looking dog. :thumbup:

Thank you! She turns 10 this month & I think she's as pretty as ever. She hasn't slowed down, either. At 3.4 lbs. she bosses around every dog she knows & always keeps tabs on my whereabouts. She seems to understand everything.
Blond might not be breed standard but I can't go anywhere without lots of strangers taking her picture.

I know cameras can play tricks with colors.... is that more of a platinum...?

It's a little grayish at the roots but definitely not gray overall. Kind of a bleach blond look I'd say. Pretty much the color as I see it on my screen.
BTW, she wasn't posing at all for the second pic. I had a visitor who snapped that one & she hadn't been prepped at all for the shot. The first one was taken at the babysitters so her hair isn't combed very well. I've never owned a camera, so all my photos of them are from others. (Now my sis lives w/me & she has a camera so I no longer have excuses for so few photos.)

Mia is also golden, but was born black and tan.

This is about as blonde as you can get but, shes not a Yorkie, she is 100 percent Silkie and if anything ever happens to me she belongs to Carmen

Our "Yorkie Talk Manager's Library" has color clues!
 

I looked up the breed info topics on our main Yorkie Talk Library and the solid tans, browns, and other variety colors really show-up under the British dog breed called the "Silky Terrior" which looks very similar to the Yorkshire Terrior. If there was any cross-breeding some generations back perhaps this is where these solid color genes are coming from...? Just a guess, but the Silky Terrior has All these color varieties that the Yorkshire Terrrior's standard list does not have.
I also found in my Yorkshire Terrior books that the very dark steel blue is not the only AKC body color as the body hair can also be a 'silver grey'. I saw pictures of Taffy's great-great-great...grandmother who was a state grand champion with grey/silver body (Janie, our breeder friend, lived in either Tennessee or Kentucky then), and she has many of her dogs' photos in several albums. Also, the big t.v. National dog show (sponsored by Purina) that I love to watch on Thanksgiving Day (right after the Macy's Parade) always has the Yorkie champion in their Toy Breeds Category. The 2013 Champion Yorkie certainly did not have the dark steel coat, but had a silver grey body with the blonde-gold head & legs. (Now, I'll have to dig out my books. Ha!)
I know the solid-colored Yorkies are not "recognized" as Show dogs, and Janie did say newspaper ads that try to make the "solid or unusual colored" Yorkies sound "special" in order to get high prices were misleading the novice buyers.! It was just like the fuss years back when "white" German Shepherds were being sold at very high prices as "rare", then the new owners found their White German Shepherds could not even be registered in the AKC. My uncle rescued a beautiful White Shepherd from a Connecticut dog pound--the owners just plain got rid of him because they felt they'd been tricked into thinking they had a 'rare-colored, expensive G. Shepherd'. They couldn't register or show their dog, so they told the SPCA they were going to a "recognized AKC breeder" to get a new Shepherd pup! My uncle loved "Amos", and Amos was a big-boned, healthy White German Shepherd...very smart! NOW, the AKC has, after 20 years, finally recognized these White Shepherds under the name "Alsacian/Alasatian (spelling?) Shepherd". They are not shown with the standard German (black & tan colored) Shepherds. So, perhaps someday, the AKC might recognize the newer Yorkie colors--? Janie also felt ads for "teacup" Yorkies were doing a big disfavor to the Yorkie breed as these Yorkies often had more health problems from inbreeding tiny + tiny Yorkies, and had too many recessive genes. But, she said some breeders would bred for 'cute-fashion' instead of health & breed standards--Now pleasen, don't send me any angry replies--this was a Yorkie Breeder I knew who told me this! *Our vet also criticizes the "too tiny Yorkies" for health reasons; she owns a rescued Yorki-poo and also gets upset with the pet stores selling mixed-breed "manufactured dogs" for $500.00++ when they are not worth the price! They are not a "dog breed", and who knows what the adult dog will grow-up to be like or what standards its parent dogs even had. But, hey, it's the buyer's choice & their $$. But, do read-up about a dog breed before buying a puppy. The breeder-members of Yorkie Talk will probably support this idea! LOL to ALL!!

That is very interesting. It is true that there are breeders that do try to breed for a color or "look" that would be different or fashionable. You see it all over the internet. I don't know if AKC would ever accept a color different from what is already accepted since it is now considered a color fault in the show ring.

In order to produce a pedigreed dog that consistently produced a color that is not now present in the accepted gene pool it would require an out cross. An out cross to another breed would produce what AKC calls an "experimental' breed and usually it takes many years and generations before AKC will even consider the breed that was created this way.

I remember when I was very young (many, many years ago) my mom watched an exercise show where the man had what looked like 2 white German Shepherds. They were gorgeous. I have seen some since but I have no idea what their ancestry was since they were just family pets. Interesting to know that there is now a line of white German Shepherd like dogs accepted in AKC.