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06-18-2006, 02:38 PM | #1 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Rancho Viejo, Tx
Posts: 2,698
| a bit of info I found this very informative site. I found it searching for coat care. even though it is dealing with another breed, I thought it might be helpful for anyone. http://perfectionimages.com/kennel/coat-care.html also.. I was reading on the breed info and came across a couple of paragraphs, which I think, was written nicely. I thought of the puppy mills and back yard breeders and how true the wording fits. You never see puppy mills or back yard breeders living "high on the hog", as we used to say.(or producing show quality). I know it isn't talking about yorkies, but the same for all breeds, I think. any how... I copied and pasted this. Taken from : http://www.brytestar.com/isprofil.html... here it is.............. ----------------------------- You got a red dog; I got a red dog; let's have pups and make a bundle! Well, no one made a bundle; temperament was soon abandoned as a qualification for breeding; dogs of inferior mental stability and physical soundness were bred without discrimination; and a bunch of folks who never should have owned Irish Setters fell prey to that glorious red coat and those high spirits. A year later, after the precious puppy had chewed up the better part of their furniture and landscaping, many pet owners simply threw up their hands. The breed became the tramps, the street dogs of the 70's, one in every pound, and still a litter in every classified section. As quickly as they had embraced them, the public now ran screaming from the breed; the bottom dropped out of the puppy market; Gerald Ford moved into the White House with his Golden Retriever Liberty; and never has a breed plummeted so rapidly from the heights of popularity as did the big red dogs! (Ranked #54 of 140 in popularity in 1992.) Perhaps this was the Irish Setter's salvation...when no one wanted to buy their pups any longer, the opportunists quickly abandoned the breed, leaving it in the hands of the responsible breeders who understood and loved the true nature of their dogs, who recognized and appreciated their high level of energy, their quickness in learning, their adaptability, their need for both physical and mental stimulation, and who knew that (1) their breed was not for everyone, and (2) if an Irish Setter was your cup of tea, you could never be fully satisfied with any other breed.
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