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Old 09-21-2008, 07:46 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by topknot View Post
I was always thinking (just my own thoughts of where the white gene came from) that it was a Maltese. Reason is because back in the 80's most of the people that had a yorkie/s also had Malteses. Similar to yorkie people also owning Crested now.
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The maltese is thought to be part of the original make up of the yorkie. they were all shown under the same group, Broken haired Scottish Terrier. So it stands to reason that they were bred together.
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