I personally love all the colors, a yorkie is a yorkie regardless of color.
I can very well see how a maltese could have been added to the mix. They have dark pigment on their nose, eye rims and pads on their feet. But they can also have dark pigment elsewhere as well.
I have a male maltese who has dark pigment on his muzzle as well as his ears which is common with those with great pigment.
Have you ever seen some of the morkies some sell? I have seen quite a few that have a parti coloring to them when the parents were a standard yorkie and a stardard maltese.
Whether or not a maltese did make the parti gene possible I don't know but I can very well see how it could be possible. |