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Originally Posted by yorkiekist  I had to re-read your post and find that it is amazing that you say the parti lines all trace back to Pomp. That being said the following show kennels/show dogs must be parti producers as they have dogs with MULTIPLE crosses to Pomp...... |
Really, only the old breeders who had off colors show up in their litters, can attest to the truth. I can only tell you what we have been told by the breeders involved in the Parti investigation. The below is a word for word quote from one of their letters:
"AKC went back as far as they could with the living dogs. They DNA'd about 42 litters. They also talked to a lot of the "old" breeders and they told them they had always been in the lines but were disposed of. Wildweir told AKC that they had more Partis than Gloria (Nikkos kennel) but they got "rid" of them. They didn't know the Parti color was a recessive gene and was really not gone, just not evident to the eyes."
The fact that Nikkos parti line and other parti lines are tracing back to Wildweir dogs, that fact that Wildweir stated to AKC they had parti showing up in their lines, the fact that AKC's letter stated that after their research into the breed history and receiving information
of the dogs in your dogs pedigree (Wildweir dogs) that it was determined that this color can be produced in otherwise normal litters.
I can only assume that some breeders culled the dogs who it produced off color, thus ending some lines of carriers.