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Originally Posted by Golden Parti  Excellent post  . I do want to know after reading this has anybody had problems with hair loss on their standard blue and tan colored yorkies? I did not know this was a problem before but the articles do state that the darker steel blues do not seem to have the problem. Let me also post a quote from one of the excellent articles you provided.
" Deeply pigmented or white areas of coat are unaffected. In blue dogs with tan points (Yorkies and Dobermans) the tan areas retain a normal appearance. In piebald (white spotted) individuals, the white areas are unaffected by the hair loss." |
Of course those areas are not affected...the condition is one that is unique to the "blue born" dogs.
The darker steel blues to not have the problem because they are not "blue born" dogs...I think maybe you are confusing "blue borns" and the steel blue standard coat--they are not one and the same. Clearly the white and tan points would not be an "affected" area. In the quote you provided, the "pie-bald" dogs they are referring to are not even Yorkies...they are OTHER breeds.