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Originally Posted by beckgirl  Nancy,
I appreciate your helping me to educate people about buying the proper Yorkie. We should not proliferate the mixed type of Yorkies or backyard breeding. Two Yorkies should not be bred just for puppies. They should be bred to BETTER the breed. Not by making designer dogs of different colors. |
I too believe that education is very important; it makes people think.
Attached is an example of how recessive genes came to be in our yorkies.
This is a breed that began by dogs of unknown heritage and dogs with out pedigrees. Pictured is a group of Terriers from the 19th century, illustration by DJ Watkins - Pitchford, from the Book of Field Sports printed in 1860. According to the caption in the illustration the drawing depicts: The Skye Terrier, The Scotch Terrier, The English Smooth (coated) Terrier, The Crossed Scotch Terrier, The Dandie Dinmont and The Bull Terrier. Dogs like these were some of the early foundation stock of the Yorkshire Terrier. Please note that 2 of the dogs (the Crossed Scotch Terrier and the Bull Terrier) are parti colored in this drawing. Also note that all but 1 dog ran freely, and I'm pretty sure that none were neutered or spayed in the 1800's.
"Swift's Old Crab" one of the foundation dogs in our breed was a Crossed Scotch Terrier ... he was an acceptable color according to the YTCA but who knows, he may have been the full sibling or a son of the parti colored Cross Scotch terrier in the picture! ;-)
Just because a dog is blue and tan, doesn't mean that they don't carry recessive genes for other colors, it just means that their genes have been "hiding in the closet."
