Well not to be biased but what was the akc thinking... to many dogs have been breed to far from their original hunting lines to show lines and they have lost many attributes and skills of what made them such great hunter. The main point that I will get to quickly before you think any less of me is that not all yorkshire terriers would make good hunting dogs but some might. By some miracle of backyard breeders and people think its cute to make puppies a few good hunting yorkies might exist. They aren't yappy for nothing. Bolting quarry from a hole was the whole point of terriers in the first place.
Your dog barking at squirrels doesn't mean though that they will make a good hunter in fact cool terriers (meaning ones of calmer level demeanor) will be much easier to hunt then a untrained yappy rat. Unfortunately you wont see any prissy little dogs running around sets (although that would amuse me much). Show dogs are a far cry from hunting dogs for the simple fact that they have different standards. In fact you would probably have to reinvent much of the yorkie to get it back to where it could be used again.Yorkies used to not be the prissy little dogs they were today and years of breeding out so called bad habits like barking, digging, etc. ( and over all really dumbed this breed down) has left the yorkie in the toy group. I will not consider this dog a real terrier till I see them go to ground once more with enthusiasm and controlled skill. The akc doesn't even mention the history of the yorkie as a earth dog in its history.
As of august this year the yorkshire terrier was allowed into the earthdog trials we will see if the enthusiasts will follow through now that they are allowed in.
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