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Originally Posted by MyTrixie143  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. |
My mentor gave my daughter a Maltese puppy as a wedding gift a few months ago, and when she baths her, you can see darker pigmented areas on her pink skin. Her coat is all white but she has light skin freckles too.
I've seen some parti colored morkies that have the same markings as our parti yorkies and I've seen people advertise that the pups are from a maltese x yorkie cross but the yorkie was also a parti gene carrier in order for the parti color to be produced.